Resistance and resignation as components of adolescent girls' talk about the objectification of females.
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Title
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Resistance and resignation as components of adolescent girls' talk about the objectification of females.
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Identifier
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AAI9830695
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identifier
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9830695
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Creator
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Corby, Ruby.
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Contributor
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Adviser: David J. Bearison
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Date
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1998
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Developmental | Women's Studies | Education, Sociology of | Psychology, Social
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Abstract
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Sixty adolescent girls, ages eleven, thirteen, and sixteen, were interviewed after viewing segments from two popular prime-time television programs which featured adolescents as the main characters. The girls' responses were organized around the themes of Resistance and Resignation to the sexual objectification of females. Six subthemes of Resistance emerged from the interview responses: physical resistance, verbal resistance, visual resistance, flee resistance, moral resistance, and ignore resistance. The results indicated that there were age differences within the subtheme of verbal resistance and within resignation. Sixteen-year-old girls and thirteen-year-old girls had a significantly higher proportion of their talk organized around verbal resistance than did eleven-year-old girls. For resignation, thirteen-year-old girls and sixteen-year-old girls had a significantly higher proportion of their talk organized around resignation than did eleven-year-old girls. The girls' responses to the television programs demonstrate the ability to bring interpretations of their lived experiences to television viewing rather than being passive recipients of the influence of television.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
