Valerie Hey

This lively and revealing study explores a sociologically invisible but important social relationship: girls' friendship. It uncovers often suppressed schoolgirl cultures, at times representing in their most condensed and dramatic form issues of intimacy, secrecy and struggle. Most women have memories of, and most mothers of young daughters become re-immersed in, these all-consuming but little understood passions. This taken-for-granted 'ordinary' relationship is examined using girls' notes, talk, diaries and interviews gathered by observing girls' groups within city schools. An important and previously ignored question is addressed by examining how girls' intimacy is structured through class, gender, sexuality and race, especially its paradoxical role in maintaining and challenging 'compulsory heterosexuality'. In this way, a series of case studies analyses how girls variously come to understand and construct 'difference'. In addition, this detailed analysis of girls' friendship contributes to our understanding of how girls simultaneously survive their schools, their families, their relations and subordination to boys and men.

An Ethnography of Girls' Friendships

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The Level of Drug Use Within Islington - a Local Needs Assessment

The Tip of the Iceberg

"One in five pregnancies failed - yet miscarriage remains a footnote in most pregnancy books, its emotional and physical impact minimised. Beginning with personal accounts, Hidden Loss goes on to offer a feminist analysis of the experience of miscarriage in our society. Why is the reality of prebirth loss hidden under euphemism and evasion? The book contains essential information about the known causes of prebirth loss, as well as about GP and hospital practice."-- Back cover.

Miscarriage and Ectopic Pregnancy

Hidden Loss

Catherine Itzin

Lesley Saunders

This book recognises miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy as bereavement and offers a full understanding of the emotional and medical realities of prebirth loss, women's experiences and the possibilities for grieving and recovery.

Valerie Hey

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