Just Girls: Hidden Literacies and Life in Junior High

摘要: This text provides a portrait of adolescent girls in middle school - the "social queens" and "tough cookies". The author, Margaret Finders, follows girls, focusing on what they read write not just school-sanctioned activities but also important "hidden literacies" signing yearbooks, writing notes, bathroom graffiti reading teen magazines. She spends time interviewing interacting with out classroom, sleepovers, mall visits nd other recreational visits. What she sees raises questions about is known girls' lives. Highlighting social importance friendship, family networks sense themselves, suggests that literacy plays an role maintaining friendship groups construction self. study many common assumptions early adolescence, mostly importantly "good girl" so often assigned to reinforced female students.