Chapter 2 “Understand This, and Be Happy in Life”: Contradicting Conditions, Complicating Community

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction. Putting a Mic in the Margins 1
5. Chapter 1 Quantum Justice Leaps and Poetic Echoes 31
6. Chapter 2 “Understand This, and Be Happy in Life”: Contradicting Conditions, Complicating Community 65
7. Chapter 3 “Always Giving Something Up”: Decision Making and Subjectivity 103
8. Chapter 4 What Girls Want: Dreams and Desires 131
9. Chapter 5 “My Shining Makes You Glow”: Motherhood and Girls from the Future 147
10. Chapter 6 Too Close for Comfort: Motherhood and Girls Revising the Past 169
11. Chapter 7 Girls Making a Way 203
12. Afterword. Looking Back to Look Ahead 233
13. Acknowledgments 241
14. References 243
15. Index 265