UID:
kobvindex_HPB1076631119
Umfang:
1 online resource (228.)
ISBN:
9781138747159
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1138747157
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9781138747166
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1138747165
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9781315180250
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1315180251
Inhalt:
Adolescence, wherever you live, is a potentially turbulent and challenging time and no less so in the four countries where we undertook our work. Here, transitionsthrough adolescence are fraught with difficulties, in part due to the deeplyembedded gender norms which determine what a girl can and cannot do and howshe must be. Each specific context came with its own factors: multi-ethnic andmulti-religious communities, remoteness, variable services (if any at all) and, sometimes, a policy and cultural context without recognition of adolescence, where thetransition to adulthood is short or immediate rather than prolonged. Nevertheless, what we know from biological sciences is that adolescence is adevelopmental period? a time when the body and mind changes. These changesbring with them potential which in the right context, can open new opportunities. Our interest was in exploring that potential and how gendered norms might truncateopportunities and limit the development of capabilities which every youngadult could aspire to own? the ability to have a political voice, to be educated, to be in good health, to have control over one?s body, to be free from violence, tobe able to own property and earn a livelihood, to be economically and politicallyempowered. We were intrigued by the very common experiences of adolescent girls acrossmultiple contexts. This learning and sharing enabled us to explore in much greater depth what norms are and how they operate within political and institutionalspaces at national and community levels. It also allowed us to explore the changingand different conceptual understandings of gendered social relations, gender equalityand the usage of the term?norm? to capture embedded, often implicit, informalrules by which people abide, and which are bound into the values people and societiesaccept implicitly, accept reluctantly or actively contest.
Anmerkung:
English.
Sprache:
Englisch
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