Marnina Gonick is Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and Women's Studies at Penn State at University Park.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

CHAPTER 1

Introduction

What Is the "Problem" with These Girls?: School Discourses of Teenage Femininity
The Itinerary of an Idea
Itinerant Writings/Readings/Pedagogies

CHAPTER 2

Points of Departure and Disrupted Arrivals: Negotiating the Research Terrain

Knowing "Us" and "Them": Ethnographic Knowledge, and the End of Innocence
Researching Experience/Experiencing Research: Crisis in Research Epistemology and Representation
Research Geographies
Text, Talk, and Videotape: Research Methodology as Feminist Pedagogy
Notes towards a Politics of Arrival: New Ethnographic Stories

CHAPTER 3

Crystal's Story: The Bad Girl Within

Crystal's Story: Narrating the Self through Romance
Scenes of Desire: The Bad Girl Within
Scene 1: Subjectivity and Femininity
Scene 2: Bodies in Trouble: The Bad Girl Made Visible
Scene 3: Necessary Failures: Disrupting the Good Girl Story
Scene 4: Good Girls and the Disavowal of Self

CHAPTER 4

Tori's Story: Becoming Somebody

Narrating the Self from the Inside Out
Scenes of Transformation
Scene 1: From the Outside In: (Re)Dressing Social Difference
Scene 2: (Re) Situating the Self in Social Space

CONCLUSION

The Good, the Bad, the Smart, and the Popular: Living Ambivalence

Mixed Subjects: Disruptive Figures?
I. Intersections: The Bad Girl Within: Transformations beyond the Ending
II. Intersections: Becoming Somebody: Romancing the Self
Mixed Subjects, New Subjectivites, and Feminist Cultural Pedagogies

REPRISE

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX