October 28, 2011
by stuartelden
Society and Space review editor, Mary Thomas, has a book out. Entitled Multicultural Girlhood: Racism, Sexuality, and the Conflicted Spaces of American Education, it is published by Temple University Press, and available in both paper and cloth editions. More details can be found here, where you can also download an excerpt from the first chapter. Here’s one of the endorsements:
“Multicultural Girlhood is a totally outstanding book on several counts. It tackles head-on the problems and limits of facile discourses of multiculturalism. It refuses the deep, underlying tendency in Girlhood Studies to imagine that young women are somehow able to reach for and embody a feminist future. And it makes use of Butlerian psychoanalytic thinking to analyze a series of fascinating interviews with young, economically disadvantaged women, from different ethnic backgrounds, who are responding to the spatial dynamics of ethnic conflict in the Los Angeles school system.”
—Angela McRobbie , author of The Aftermath of Feminism
Mary’s paper ‘Pleasure and propriety: teen girls and the practice of straight space’ appeared in the journal in 2004.