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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

. 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

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

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

. “ 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

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

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

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

, 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