Conformity and resistance in Self-Management Strategies of ‘Good Girls’.
- Författare
- Sanders, J., & Munford, R.,
- Titel
- Conformity and resistance in Self-Management Strategies of ‘Good Girls’.
- Utgivningsår
- 2008
- Tidskrift
- Childhood
- Volym
- 15
- Sidor
- 481-497
- Sammanfattning
This article examines how girls manage challenging encounters with non-familial adults. Drawing on a subset of qualitative data collected as part of a larger ethnographic study, it examines the ways girls maintain a strong sense of self as a good person in the face of interpersonal challenge from these non-familial adults. The discourse of the 'good girl' allows them to resist excessive demands of adults and provides opportunities to have fun. The importance of the parent—child relationship in terms of providing a safe context from which the girls can generate the good and bad girl facades is also highlighted.