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and social movements continue to accept “the ‘naturalness’ of conveying inferior and defective personhood to individuals with … physical and cognitive impairments” (xv). Enmeshed in such ideologies, social and educational policies (in India and

. As a result, the female protagonists are limited to very specific adult roles, usually within the domestic sphere. In exploring these elements in relation to genre theory, however, we see these texts as constructing a particular ideology about what

ideological practices that constitute the transnational at this historical juncture and in the … sites we ourselves occupy ( Alexander and Mohanty 2010: 24 ). We hope that the articles, through engaging with hierarchies of power in diverse contexts, have the

Cousins 2011 ). The twentieth-century reading culture of girls and young women has also been seen to be negotiating ideologies about femininity, social mobility, national identity, and citizenship. However, despite its significance it is very much in

“sizable minority” are regular participants in local communities of faith ( Smith and Denton 2009 ). To these adolescents, religious institutions and leaders, in varying degrees and to varying extents, become literacy sponsors who impart their ideologies

toys, but expressions of US neoliberal and capitalist ideologies on display. Thus, though American Girl products represent girls only in the US, its distribution to girls around the world—encouraging them to literally buy (into) these ideologies

association between self-esteem and GRC that has been demonstrated repeatedly in the literature and also in Study 1. Third, O’Neil (2015) indicates that, across 20 studies, correlations between the original GRCS and four indices of masculine ideology

her ability to engage with” (9) this. There is, then, potential for ideological tensions between CBBC’s representational approach (as a public service broadcaster) to tween girls and the consumerist mores of postfeminist girlhood. Given that the BBC is

article called “Girl Power in Nervous Conditions : Fictional Practice as a Research Site,” I explored the idea that “seeing a literary text as a site of [educational] research” could lead to the “exploration of how the ideology of theory might intersect

narrative of success/failure that pervades local and global ideologies and sensibilities. This book is therefore important for the field of Girlhood Studies precisely, but not solely, because of its profound and complex investigation into the traditional