ERIC Number: EJ1231936
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 15
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Tough Femininities: Ethnic Minority Girls' Aggressive School Opposition
Eriksen, Ingunn Marie
British Journal of Sociology of Education, v40 n8 p1090-1104 2019
This article addresses school resistance in ethnic minority girls. Girls' school opposition is mostly described as covert. If described as hostile, it is rarely understood in terms of femininity. Through psychosocial analyses of extensive fieldwork and interviews with students in a Norwegian upper-secondary school, the article describes an affective practice in which young minority girls reject school aggressively. I argue that through their school opposition, the girls are constituting a transgressive femininity that that does not jeopardise their ethnic belonging or their femininity within school. Their aggression is fuelled by the experience of disentitlement from success in a school perceived as being for ethnic Norwegians and not for them. Although the noisy girls at Skogbyen act in a way that is locally accepted, they still act in opposition to the larger gender order -- which comes at a cost.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Femininity, Ethnicity, Ethnic Groups, Minority Group Students, Females, Secondary School Students, Aggression, Student School Relationship, Resistance (Psychology), Student Attitudes, School Attitudes, Negative Attitudes, Student Behavior, Academic Achievement
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Norway
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