grassroots technologies serve at-risk populations? How do existing policy frameworks seek to create nonviolent environments for online technologies, and in what ways do they fall short? What public infrastructures—like law enforcement, for example— are
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From Risk to Resistance
Girls and Technologies of Nonviolence
Laurel Hart
Contemporary Girls Studies
Reflections on the Inaugural International Girls Studies Association Conference
Victoria Cann, Sarah Godfrey, and Helen Warner
infrastructures generated by feminist-identified movements and practitioners often get lost in the official and popular record, despite their political significance and potentially transformative power” (240). This is certainly the case for girls whose activism
Girls’ Perspectives on (Mis)Representations of Girlhood in Hegemonic Media Texts
Paula MacDowell
innovative and somewhat unconventional since all the coresearchers were involved in designing the camp infrastructure and curriculum. They also had genuine opportunities to contribute their ideas and perspectives to the development of the research design
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Dec 2017
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- Research Article
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- 201–216 (16 total)
Editor's Introduction
Andrew J. Ball
and legitimate white, heterosexist masculinity. Eddy presents a clear, rigorous, and intersectional example of how the symbolic forms of mass culture—and their material infrastructures—are invested in the nation's power dynamics. Looking forward, the
Terms of Silence
Weaknesses in Corporate and Law Enforcement Responses to Cyberviolence against Girls
Suzanne Dunn, Julie S. Lalonde, and Jane Bailey
exert over an increasingly indispensable element of public infrastructure, social media companies should, at minimum, be required to develop transparent and accountable policies and practices aimed at preventing cyberviolence on their platforms while
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- Research Article
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- 80–96 (17 total)
Technologies of Nonviolence
Ethical Participatory Visual Research with Girls
Astrid Treffry-Goatley, Lisa Wiebesiek, Naydene de Lange, and Relebohile Moletsane
HIV infection and tuberculosis, illiteracy, poor infrastructure, crime, and sexual violence ( Okhahlamba Local Municipality 2015 ). Recruitment of Participants Participants were recruited with the help of a teacher from the secondary school in Khethani
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- Research Article
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- 45–61 (17 total)
Delivering Sexual and Reproductive Health Education to Girls
Are Helplines Useful?
Joan Njagi
representation. They can transcend infrastructural barriers to amplify the voices of girls and young women in challenging social norms that marginalize and exclude them, and define their agenda. They can influence social norms and public policies, even in rural
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Jun 2018
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- Research Article
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- 30–45 (16 total)
A Social Negotiation of Hope
Male West African Youth, ‘Waithood’ and the Pursuit of Social Becoming through Football
Christian Ungruhe and James Esson
infrastructure, and a fragile political economy in relation to its European counterpart ( Darby et al. 2007 ). For example, the average monthly salary for professional football players in Ghana is relatively low, particularly in comparison to players at European