Thinking Outside the Girl Box - Teaming Up With Resilient Youth in Appalachia

Written in an accessible, engaging style and drawing on collaborative ethnographic research that the girls themselves helped conduct, Thinking Outside the Girl Box tells the true story of an innovative program determined to challenge the small, disempowering "boxes" girls and women are so often expected to live in.

About the author

Linda Spatig is professor of educational foundations at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. Layne Amerikaner is a communications specialist at People For the American Way in Washington, DC.

Summary

Written in an accessible, engaging style and drawing on collaborative ethnographic research that the girls themselves helped conduct, Thinking Outside the Girl Box tells the true story of an innovative program determined to challenge the small, disempowering “boxes” girls and women are so often expected to live in.

Product details

• Authors: Layne Amerikaner, Linda Spatig, Linda/ Amerikaner Spatig
• Assisted by: Layne Amerikaner (Illustration)
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2014
• EAN: 9780821420591
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-2059-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Race, Ethnicity and Gender in; Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia; Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia; Series in Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in Appalachia
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous