Lyn Mikel Brown
Biographic Data
| ID | 3742982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lyn Mikel Brown |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lyn Mikel |
| FAMILY NAME | Brown |
| SIGNATURE | BROWN L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colby College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 154 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Bridges, ladders, sparks, and glue
Intergenerational collaborations with girls are difficult. Complicating power structures, translating vocabulary and culture across generations, balancing mentorship with partnership, and many other tricky negotiations lead too many adults to either give up or never even try to work with girls. This paper explores, examines, critiques, and celebrates the ways in which girls and adult allies are collaborating to ignite SPARK Movement (www.SPARKmov…
Confronting Barriers to Critical Discussions about Sexualization with Adolescent Girls
Journal Article Confronting Barriers to Critical Discussions about Sexualization with Adolescent Girls Get access Amy Castro Baker, Amy Castro Baker Amy Castro Baker, PhD, MSW, is assistant professor, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, 3701 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104; Lyn Mikel Brown, EdD, is professor of education, Colby College, Waterville, ME. Marisa Ragonese, MA, is a PhD candidate, Graduate Center, Cit…
Embodying sexualisation
This interchange explores the role of girl (ages thirteen to twenty-two) activism in the USA organisation SPARK (Sexualization Protest: Action, Resistance, Knowledge). Some of the many initiatives and programmes SPARK has enacted with girls, including online forums, blog spaces, marches, and summits directly address recent calls to attend to the complexity in understanding and resisting 'sexualisation' with teen girls. Several of the girls' media…
We're Taking Back Sexy
SPARK, Sexualization Protest Action Resistance Knowledge, is an intergenerational movement that raises awareness about, and pushes back against, the sexualization of women and girls in the media to create room for whole girls. In this article, I document the ways in which the SPARKTeam, a diverse collection of young feminist bloggers, contributes to the creation of conditions that enable healthy sexuality by using their blogs to reclaim what it m…
Packaging boyhood
Fighting like a girl fighting like a guy
In this chapter we explore the phenomenon of "girls fighting like guys" by listening to adolescent girls' justification for physical fighting with other girls. We argue that physical girlfighting is a particular kind of gendered performance--a performance of identity that expresses, at least in part, an answer to the question, "Who am I?"--that both perpetuates and challenges the usual notions of masculinity and femininity and the differential po…
The "Girls" in Girls' Studies
Lyn Mikel Brown gives an autobiographical account of her shift in focus from studying girls and theorizing girls and girlhood to working as an activist and advocate for and with girls. Specifically she describes the Maine-based nonprofit organization called Hardy Girls Healthy Women (www.hghw.org) that she founded in 2000. She situates her current praxis historically in the light of her groundbreaking work with Carol Gilligan at the Harvard Proje…
Patriarchy Matters
This article explores the role that the sex–gender system plays in shaping both the violence and victimization of girls. Taking first the issue of girls' violence, the article argues that steep increases in girls' arrests are not the product of girls becoming more like boys. Instead, forms of girls' minor violence that were once ignored are now being criminalized. Shifting gears, the article explores how “gender-neutral” relabeling of girls' vict…
Girlfighting
Offers a developmental explanation for girlfighting and pathways to build girl allies For some time, reality TV, talk shows, soap-operas, and sitcoms have turned their spotlights on women and girls who thrive on competition and nastiness. Few fairytales lack the evil stepmother, wicked witch, or jealous sister. Even cartoons feature mean and sassy girls who only become sweet and innocent when adults appear. And recently, popular books and magazin…
Performing Femininities
In this article, I explore the ways in which sixth, seventh, and eighth grade White girls from poor and working-class families in rural Maine understand, express, and react to dominant cultural definitions of femininity. Using a qualitative method, The Listening Guide, to interpret data gathered over the course of a year from weekly videotaped focus group conversations and individual interviews, I identify and underscore the contradictory nature …
Performing Femininities
In this article, I explore the ways in which sixth, seventh, and eighth grade White girls from poor and working‐class families in rural Maine understand, express, and react to dominant cultural definitions of femininity. Using a qualitative method, The Listening Guide, to interpret data gathered over the course of a year from weekly videotaped focus group conversations and individual interviews, I identify and underscore the contradictory nature …
VII. Standing in the Crossfire
The Aftermath of Murder and Manslaughter
Meeting at the Crossroads
For over a century, psychologists have described adolescence as a time of heightened psychological risk for girls. This article explores a relational impasse or crisis of connection that we have observed in girls' lives at adolescence by tracing through time the thoughts and feelings of two 12-year-old girls who were interviewed as part of a 5-year longitudinal study of girls' psychological development. Using a voice-centered relational method, w…
Meeting at the Crossroads
On the way to womanhood, what does a girl give up? For five years, Lyn Mikel Brown and Carol Gilligan, asking this question, listened to one hundred girls who were negotiating the rough terrain of adolescence. This book invites us to listen, too, and to hear in these girls' voices what is rarely spoken, often ignored, and generally misunderstood: how the passage out of girlhood is a journey into silence, disconnection, and dissembling, a troubled…
Lesen im Hinblick auf das Selbst und die moralische Stimme
Unser Ziel ist es, in diesem Aufsatz eine interpretative Methode zu beschreiben, die wir als Anleitung zur Auswertung (zum Lesen) von Interviewerzählungen über moralische Konflikte und Entscheidungen entwikkelt haben. Von zentraler Bedeutung für dieses Vorhaben ist, daß wir es für möglich halten, daß einerseits unterschiedliche Perspektiven im Hinblick auf moralische Probleme eingenommen werden können und daß andererseits zwischen diesen ein Konf…
Listening for voice in narratives of relationship
In a psychology understood as a relational practice, the process of listening to, interpreting, and speaking about the stories of others is a relational act; such a psychology demands a method that is responsive to different voices and sensitive to the way body, relationships, and culture affect the psyche
Telling a Girl's Life
No abstract available for this article
Adolescents' moral dilemmas
Stories Told and Lessons Learned
The telling of stories in moral education has a long and universal tradition. In the study of moral development, however, the uses and power of narrative in both forming and conveying a moral sense have been largely ignored. Children's storytelling, they believe, creates authorship when the audience is responsive and the story told represents real experience. By presenting thoughtful and challenging evidence for the role of storytelling, these au…
Meeting at the Crossroads
For over a century, psychologists have described adolescence as a time of heightened psychological risk for girls. This article explores a relational impasse or crisis of connection that we have observed in girls' lives at adolescence by tracing through time the thoughts and feelings of two 12-year-old girls who were interviewed as part of a 5-year longitudinal study of girls' psychological development. Using a voice-centered relational method, w…
Telling a Girl's Life
No abstract available for this article
Bridges, ladders, sparks, and glue
Intergenerational collaborations with girls are difficult. Complicating power structures, translating vocabulary and culture across generations, balancing mentorship with partnership, and many other tricky negotiations lead too many adults to either give up or never even try to work with girls. This paper explores, examines, critiques, and celebrates the ways in which girls and adult allies are collaborating to ignite SPARK Movement (www.SPARKmov…
Embodying sexualisation
This interchange explores the role of girl (ages thirteen to twenty-two) activism in the USA organisation SPARK (Sexualization Protest: Action, Resistance, Knowledge). Some of the many initiatives and programmes SPARK has enacted with girls, including online forums, blog spaces, marches, and summits directly address recent calls to attend to the complexity in understanding and resisting 'sexualisation' with teen girls. Several of the girls' media…
VII. Standing in the Crossfire
Performing Femininities
In this article, I explore the ways in which sixth, seventh, and eighth grade White girls from poor and working‐class families in rural Maine understand, express, and react to dominant cultural definitions of femininity. Using a qualitative method, The Listening Guide, to interpret data gathered over the course of a year from weekly videotaped focus group conversations and individual interviews, I identify and underscore the contradictory nature …
The "Girls" in Girls' Studies
Lyn Mikel Brown gives an autobiographical account of her shift in focus from studying girls and theorizing girls and girlhood to working as an activist and advocate for and with girls. Specifically she describes the Maine-based nonprofit organization called Hardy Girls Healthy Women (www.hghw.org) that she founded in 2000. She situates her current praxis historically in the light of her groundbreaking work with Carol Gilligan at the Harvard Proje…
Confronting Barriers to Critical Discussions about Sexualization with Adolescent Girls
Journal Article Confronting Barriers to Critical Discussions about Sexualization with Adolescent Girls Get access Amy Castro Baker, Amy Castro Baker Amy Castro Baker, PhD, MSW, is assistant professor, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, 3701 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104; Lyn Mikel Brown, EdD, is professor of education, Colby College, Waterville, ME. Marisa Ragonese, MA, is a PhD candidate, Graduate Center, Cit…
Performing Femininities
In this article, I explore the ways in which sixth, seventh, and eighth grade White girls from poor and working-class families in rural Maine understand, express, and react to dominant cultural definitions of femininity. Using a qualitative method, The Listening Guide, to interpret data gathered over the course of a year from weekly videotaped focus group conversations and individual interviews, I identify and underscore the contradictory nature …
Stories Told and Lessons Learned
The telling of stories in moral education has a long and universal tradition. In the study of moral development, however, the uses and power of narrative in both forming and conveying a moral sense have been largely ignored. Children's storytelling, they believe, creates authorship when the audience is responsive and the story told represents real experience. By presenting thoughtful and challenging evidence for the role of storytelling, these au…
Adolescents' moral dilemmas
Lesen im Hinblick auf das Selbst und die moralische Stimme
Unser Ziel ist es, in diesem Aufsatz eine interpretative Methode zu beschreiben, die wir als Anleitung zur Auswertung (zum Lesen) von Interviewerzählungen über moralische Konflikte und Entscheidungen entwikkelt haben. Von zentraler Bedeutung für dieses Vorhaben ist, daß wir es für möglich halten, daß einerseits unterschiedliche Perspektiven im Hinblick auf moralische Probleme eingenommen werden können und daß andererseits zwischen diesen ein Konf…
Listening for voice in narratives of relationship
In a psychology understood as a relational practice, the process of listening to, interpreting, and speaking about the stories of others is a relational act; such a psychology demands a method that is responsive to different voices and sensitive to the way body, relationships, and culture affect the psyche
Telling a Girl's Life
No abstract available for this article
Meeting at the Crossroads
On the way to womanhood, what does a girl give up? For five years, Lyn Mikel Brown and Carol Gilligan, asking this question, listened to one hundred girls who were negotiating the rough terrain of adolescence. This book invites us to listen, too, and to hear in these girls' voices what is rarely spoken, often ignored, and generally misunderstood: how the passage out of girlhood is a journey into silence, disconnection, and dissembling, a troubled…
The Aftermath of Murder and Manslaughter
Meeting at the Crossroads
For over a century, psychologists have described adolescence as a time of heightened psychological risk for girls. This article explores a relational impasse or crisis of connection that we have observed in girls' lives at adolescence by tracing through time the thoughts and feelings of two 12-year-old girls who were interviewed as part of a 5-year longitudinal study of girls' psychological development. Using a voice-centered relational method, w…
VII. Standing in the Crossfire
Performing Femininities
In this article, I explore the ways in which sixth, seventh, and eighth grade White girls from poor and working-class families in rural Maine understand, express, and react to dominant cultural definitions of femininity. Using a qualitative method, The Listening Guide, to interpret data gathered over the course of a year from weekly videotaped focus group conversations and individual interviews, I identify and underscore the contradictory nature …
Performing Femininities
In this article, I explore the ways in which sixth, seventh, and eighth grade White girls from poor and working‐class families in rural Maine understand, express, and react to dominant cultural definitions of femininity. Using a qualitative method, The Listening Guide, to interpret data gathered over the course of a year from weekly videotaped focus group conversations and individual interviews, I identify and underscore the contradictory nature …
Girlfighting
Offers a developmental explanation for girlfighting and pathways to build girl allies For some time, reality TV, talk shows, soap-operas, and sitcoms have turned their spotlights on women and girls who thrive on competition and nastiness. Few fairytales lack the evil stepmother, wicked witch, or jealous sister. Even cartoons feature mean and sassy girls who only become sweet and innocent when adults appear. And recently, popular books and magazin…
Patriarchy Matters
This article explores the role that the sex–gender system plays in shaping both the violence and victimization of girls. Taking first the issue of girls' violence, the article argues that steep increases in girls' arrests are not the product of girls becoming more like boys. Instead, forms of girls' minor violence that were once ignored are now being criminalized. Shifting gears, the article explores how “gender-neutral” relabeling of girls' vict…
Fighting like a girl fighting like a guy
In this chapter we explore the phenomenon of "girls fighting like guys" by listening to adolescent girls' justification for physical fighting with other girls. We argue that physical girlfighting is a particular kind of gendered performance--a performance of identity that expresses, at least in part, an answer to the question, "Who am I?"--that both perpetuates and challenges the usual notions of masculinity and femininity and the differential po…
The "Girls" in Girls' Studies
Lyn Mikel Brown gives an autobiographical account of her shift in focus from studying girls and theorizing girls and girlhood to working as an activist and advocate for and with girls. Specifically she describes the Maine-based nonprofit organization called Hardy Girls Healthy Women (www.hghw.org) that she founded in 2000. She situates her current praxis historically in the light of her groundbreaking work with Carol Gilligan at the Harvard Proje…
Packaging boyhood
We're Taking Back Sexy
SPARK, Sexualization Protest Action Resistance Knowledge, is an intergenerational movement that raises awareness about, and pushes back against, the sexualization of women and girls in the media to create room for whole girls. In this article, I document the ways in which the SPARKTeam, a diverse collection of young feminist bloggers, contributes to the creation of conditions that enable healthy sexuality by using their blogs to reclaim what it m…
Embodying sexualisation
This interchange explores the role of girl (ages thirteen to twenty-two) activism in the USA organisation SPARK (Sexualization Protest: Action, Resistance, Knowledge). Some of the many initiatives and programmes SPARK has enacted with girls, including online forums, blog spaces, marches, and summits directly address recent calls to attend to the complexity in understanding and resisting 'sexualisation' with teen girls. Several of the girls' media…
Confronting Barriers to Critical Discussions about Sexualization with Adolescent Girls
Journal Article Confronting Barriers to Critical Discussions about Sexualization with Adolescent Girls Get access Amy Castro Baker, Amy Castro Baker Amy Castro Baker, PhD, MSW, is assistant professor, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, 3701 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104; Lyn Mikel Brown, EdD, is professor of education, Colby College, Waterville, ME. Marisa Ragonese, MA, is a PhD candidate, Graduate Center, Cit…
Bridges, ladders, sparks, and glue
Intergenerational collaborations with girls are difficult. Complicating power structures, translating vocabulary and culture across generations, balancing mentorship with partnership, and many other tricky negotiations lead too many adults to either give up or never even try to work with girls. This paper explores, examines, critiques, and celebrates the ways in which girls and adult allies are collaborating to ignite SPARK Movement (www.SPARKmov…
Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender Roles and Identity Studies (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (6 works) · Girl (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)