discussions even as we remain cognizant that there is nothing essential about either ‘girls’ or ‘women’” (203). As the first book-length study of girlhood in English Renaissance literature, it will appeal to scholars interested in girl studies as well as in
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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
Authenticity and Aspiration
Exploring the CBBC Television Tween
Sarah Godfrey
. 2007 . “ Revisiting Girls’ Studies .” Journal of Children and Media 1 ( 2 ): 105 – 125 . doi:10.1080/17482790701339118 . 10.1080/17482790701339118 Messenger Davies , Maire . 2010 . Children, Media and Culture . London : Oxford University
“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
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
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
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
The Girl in the GIF
Reading the Self into Girlfriendship
Akane Kanai
normative standards of appearance, popularity, and sexuality ( Brandes and Levin 2013 ; Dean and Laidler 2013 ; Elm 2009 ; Holmes 2016 ; Marwick 2015 ; Mazzarella 2008 ; Shade 2008 ; Stokes 2010 ; Vickery 2010 ). This girls’ studies scholarship
Social Isolation and Disrupted Privacy
Impacts of COVID-19 on Adolescent Girls in Humanitarian Contexts
Sarah Baird, Sarah Alheiwidi, Rebecca Dutton, Khadija Mitu, Erin Oakley, Tassew Woldehanna, and Nicola Jones
). In this regard, insights from girls’ studies literature—which focuses on critically engaging with how the figure of the girl is constructed, and its use and meaning as a category within different settings—provides a useful perspective from which to
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