Books by Valerie Walkerdine

When she's petite and blond, wearing ribbons and curls and an aura of money, she's the tiny, innocent heart of our culture. But when the little girl comes from the working class, she's something else. Walkerdine explores how we see young girls, how they see themselves, and how popular culture mediates the view.

This book sheds new light on the complex inter-relations that make up class, power, local history and space. It will appeal to researchers of sociology, social policy, politics, public health and geography, as well as those involved in public policy design and implementation.

This title explores the complexities of class transformation as young women approach a radically altered labour market and examines the profound but different regulation to which young women of all social positions are subjected.

This book explores the lives of girls who have grown up in the last decades of the 20th century and into the 21st examining the complex ways that wealth and poverty, class and ethnicity are forever changed but terribly present in their experiences and life chances.

Based on research, this text tackles issues and truisms, such as 'women are irrational, illogical and too close to their emotions to be any good at mathematics', and examines and puts into perspective these and other claims.

This book provides an innovative approach to the relation of psychology to the media for media and cultural studies students. Drawing on post-structuralism, discursive psychology, postcolonial theory and feminism, the book explores the regulation of the masses and its place both in the project of psychology and of media studies.