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The Hidden Life of Girls: Games of Stance, Status, and Exclusion

ISBN: 978-0-631-23424-1
Hardcover
344 pages
December 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Figures and Tables.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction.

2. Multimodality, Conflict, and Rationality in Girls’ Games.

3. Social Dimensions of a Popular Girls’ Clique.

4. Social Organization, Opposition, and Directives in the Game of Jump Rope.

5. Language Practices for Indexing Social Status: Stories, Descriptions, Brags, and Comparisons.

6. Stance and Structure in Assessment and Gossip Activity.

7. Constructing Social Difference and Exclusion in Girls’ Groups.

8. Conclusion.

Appendix A: Transcription Symbols.

Appendix B: Jump Rope Rhymes.

Notes.

References.

Author Index.

Subject Index

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