ACKNOWLEDGMENTS CHAPTER 1 Introduction What Is the "Problem" with These Girls?: School Discourses of Teenage Femininity The Itinerary of an Idea Itinerant Writings/Readings/Pedagogies CHAPTER 2 Points of Departure and Disrupted Arrivals: Negotiating the Research Terrain Knowing "Us" and "Them": Ethnographic Knowledge, and the End of Innocence Researching Experience/Experiencing Research: Crisis in Research Epistemology and Representation Research Geographies Text, Talk, and Videotape: Research Methodology as Feminist PedagogyNotes towards a Politics of Arrival: New Ethnographic Stories CHAPTER 3 Crystal's Story: The Bad Girl Within Crystal's Story: Narrating the Self through Romance Scenes of Desire: The Bad Girl Within Scene 1: Subjectivity and Femininity Scene 2: Bodies in Trouble: The Bad Girl Made Visible Scene 3: Necessary Failures: Disrupting the Good Girl Story Scene 4: Good Girls and the Disavowal of Self CHAPTER 4 Tori's Story: Becoming Somebody Narrating the Self from the Inside Out Scenes of Transformation Scene 1: From the Outside In: (Re)Dressing Social Difference Scene 2: (Re) Situating the Self in Social Space CONCLUSION The Good, the Bad, the Smart, and the Popular: Living Ambivalence Mixed Subjects: Disruptive Figures? I. Intersections: The Bad Girl Within: Transformations beyond the Ending II. Intersections: Becoming Somebody: Romancing the Self Mixed Subjects, New Subjectivites, and Feminist Cultural Pedagogies REPRISE NOTES REFERENCES INDEX