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(Un)Covering: Examining How Female Youth in Toronto Schools Use Style to Contest Normative Ideals of Girlhood

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dc.contributor.advisorDiPaolantonio, Mario G.
dc.creatorCafaro, Brooke Christian Ashley
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-20T16:25:24Z
dc.date.available2016-09-20T16:25:24Z
dc.date.copyright2015-09-17
dc.date.issued2016-09-20
dc.date.updated2016-09-20T16:25:24Z
dc.degree.disciplineEducation
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMEd - Master of Education
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines how girls in Canadian schools contest dress codes in order to negotiate their identity. I will engage in a critical dialogue that reshapes the discourse of womens equality in new ways by refocusing our attention towards how young girls negotiate in the gaps and fissures of the normative ideal to contest and expand the narrative of girlhood. This research has broad social implications for both educational institutions and society to examine how patriarchal and colonial discourses seek to control female students bodies and how female students respond in the moments of interruption to enact power, agency and construct their identity. It will also demonstrate how educational institutions can deny contestations of the regulatory ideal by foreclosing female students interruptions instead of allowing them to develop into a politics.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/32098
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectSecondary education
dc.subject.keywordsDress codes
dc.subject.keywordsAdolescence
dc.subject.keywordsPerformativity
dc.subject.keywordsGovernmentality
dc.subject.keywordsGirlhood
dc.subject.keywordsHijab
dc.subject.keywordsMuslim female youth
dc.subject.keywordsIdentity
dc.title(Un)Covering: Examining How Female Youth in Toronto Schools Use Style to Contest Normative Ideals of Girlhood
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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