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Direct linkAbrams, Laura S. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2003
This article explores young women's strategies for seeking personal power and resisting gender-based stereotypes in a wealthy, suburban, White community and a working-class, urban, community of color. Semi-structured interviews with 27 young women were used to examine contextual variations in these gender identity negotiation processes. Both…
Descriptors: Females, Adolescents, Sexual Identity, Individual Power
