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Conformity and Resistance in Self-Management Strategies of `Good Girls'

Massey University, New Zealand, j.sanders{at}massey.ac.nz

Robyn Munford

Massey University, New Zealand

This article examines how girls manage challenging encounters with non-familial adults. Drawing on a subset of qualitative data collected as part of a larger ethnographic study, it examines the ways girls maintain a strong sense of self as a good person in the face of interpersonal challenge from these non-familial adults. The discourse of the `good girl' allows them to resist excessive demands of adults and provides opportunities to have fun. The importance of the parent—child relationship in terms of providing a safe context from which the girls can generate the good and bad girl facades is also highlighted.

Key Words: adult—child relationships • children's everyday lives • fun • identity management • qualitative studies • sociology of childhood

Childhood, Vol. 15, No. 4, 481-497 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0907568208097203


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