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“This Is My Story”
The Reclaiming of Girls’ Education Discourses in Malala Yousafzai’s Autobiography
Rosie Walters
discourses by contextualizing her story, challenging assumptions that readers might make about her childhood, and turning the gaze back onto the West. In doing so, I argue that girl studies scholars have a duty to pay heed to the everyday acts and
Naughtiest Girls, Go Girls, and Glitterbombs
Exploding Schoolgirl Fictions
Lucinda McKnight
Fictions (1990) and complicate notions of reading the girl. Yet I would not want to stop in a girls’ studies ghetto, and, as in my other work ( McKnight 2015a , 2015b ), seek to use concepts and insights of girls’ studies for broader impact; I intend
Personal, Powerful, Political
Activist Networks by, for, and with Girls and Young Women
Catherine Vanner and Anuradha Dugal
. “ Girls Today: Girls, Girl Culture and Girl Studies .” Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 1 ( 1 ): 13 – 32 . https://doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2008.010103 . 10.3167/ghs.2008.010103 Edell , Dana , Lyn Mikel Brown , and Deborah Tolman
Emily Bent
supporting “their active participation in decision-making processes” ( United Nations General Assembly 2011: 1 ). Girls’ studies scholars rightfully interrogate the “turn to the girl” ( Switzer 2013: 349 ) across human rights campaigns and corporate
Girl Constructed in Two Nonfiction Texts
Sexual Subject? Desired Object?
Mary Ann Harlan
, and Beth Cooper Benjamin . 2004 . “ Women, Girls, and the Unfinished Work of Connection: A Critical Review of American Girls’ Studies .” In All About the Girl: Culture, Power, and Identity , ed. by Anita Harris , 15 – 28 . New York
Paula MacDowell
2013: 20 ), so capturing girls’ perspectives and learning from them cannot happen often enough or too soon in girls’ studies and media education research. Unequivocally, today’s girls are considerably disadvantaged and disempowered if they do not
“Hot-for-Teacher”
Statutory Rape or Postfeminism in Pretty Little Liars?
Shara Crookston
enacting on her own sexual desire in this relationship. This couple is so celebrated among adolescent girl fans that they have been given their own hashtag, #Ezria, on social media platforms making it vital for feminist and girls studies scholars to make
Being a Responsible Violent Girl?
Exploring Female Violence, Self-management, and ADHD
Hanna Bertilsdotter Rosqvist and Linda Arnell
Annelie Bränström Öhman . 2013 . “ Situating Nordic Girls’ Studies .” Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6 ( 2 ): 3 – 10 . 10.3167/ghs.2013.060202 Hauge , Mona-Iren . 2009 . “ Bodily Practices and Discourses of Hetero
The Doll “InbeTween”
Online Doll Videos and the Intertextuality of Tween Girl Culture
Jessica E. Johnston
Company in 1986. The 18-inch preadolescent dolls come with period clothing, accessories, set pieces, and a book series documenting each doll’s historical journey. As more dolls have been added to the line, scholars in girls’ studies and childhood studies