Unexpected Manifestations of (Dis)Orientation: Learning From 12-Year-Old Girls How to Talk Back in Order to Be Enough. (March 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hughes, Hilary E.
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 20:Number 3(2014)
• Page Start: 362
• Page End: 375
• Publication Date: 2014-03
• Subjects: young adolescent girls of color -- middle school girls -- body image -- phenomenology -- multigenre writing -- bodily-not-enoughness; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800413489530
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

The story presented here is adapted from my phenomenological dissertation project, which I wrote as a multigenre dissertation in a format similar to a teen magazine. It is a story of bodies and girls and resistance. It is a story of an incredible group of seventh grade girls of color who embodied some kind of agency in resistance-to a phenomenon I named bodily-not-enoughness : those moments in American culture when someone or something tells girls and women we are not enough of something in our lived or physical bodies. Because this story is about lives that are not yet over, I present it in the way that stories are lived : fragmented, selectively, contextually constructed (Richardson, 1997), and with plenty of interruptions.