Publications

Publication details [#26999]

Weatherall, Ann, Marsha D. Walton and Sue Jackson. 2002. Romance and friendship in pre-teen stories about conflicts: 'We decided that boys are not worth it'. Discourse & Society 13 (5) : 673–689.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

gender | narrative | sex | teenager

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This analysis of US inner-city pre-adolescents' personal narratives including issues of romance, reveals that heteronormativity is fraught with conflict.