Honey Pie for Tim
Terrance
lycidas2 at earthlink.net
Fri Aug 1 08:33:50 CDT 2003
She was a working girl north of England way
It was still September when your daddy was quite surprised
To find you with the working girls in the county jail
Is P really interested in how TV Constructs the Subjectivity (the self
in a mediated world) of young women? Girls? Boys? How government
policies influence the sex lives of our kids?
Why not?
If subjectivity is socially constructed the Tube must be involved.
I think we need to look at Prairie as a working-class poor girl (now a
teen, but just two years out of tween-age).
Contrast her with DL, who (putting aside, for the moment ... gender,
sexuality, domestic abuse and so on) who is working-class and not poor
and thus constructs a "supergirl identity" (superman, actually) where
failure is always close but not an option.
Of course we will need to look at how girls like DL, and girls like
Frenesi (when they were girls) constructed their identities and dealt
with their own sexuality and how, while there are some differences
between DL and F, both are markedly different from Prairie. Prairie is
a working-class poor girl whose efforts to survive don't necessarily
include securing a "bourgeois identity."
Policy(ing) and practising subjectivities: young women's constructions
with(in/out) Australian youth policies.
http://www.aare.edu.au/00pap/edw00449.htm
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