relationships with, adult women and what themes or categories we might use to begin to understand what those connections meant and how they shaped the lives and subjectivities of queer girls. Finally, I ask how the rise of lesbian feminist movements affected
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In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2020
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- Research Article
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- 95–108 (14 total)
Editorial
Dislodging Girlhood?
Claudia Mitchell
's pivotal question, “Are queer girls, girls?” ( 2006: 122 ) is cited. In the 13 years since she posed this question, we have not seen enough attempts made to address it. To mix my metaphors I see this issue of Girlhood Studies as helping to break the
Not Just a Phase
Queer Girlhood and Coming of Age on Screen
Whitney Monaghan
Over recent years, many films have sought to represent the lives, desires, and experiences of queer girls. While queer girlhood continues to occupy a marginal place in screen media culture more broadly ( Monaghan 2016a ), many queer girl
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2019
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- Research Article
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- 98–113 (16 total)
Non-normative Bodies, Queer Identities
Marginalizing Queer Girls in YA Dystopian Literature
Miranda A. Green-Barteet and Jill Coste
the dystopian protagonists often transgress gendered expectations, most still are white, able-bodied, heterosexual, cis-gendered girls. Indeed, this popular genre rarely features queer girls as protagonists, and YA dystopian novels with queer girls
In Girlhood Studies
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- 01 Mar 2019
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- Research Article
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- 82–97 (16 total)
Networked Technologies as Sites and Means of Nonviolence
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Laurel Hart, Pamela Lamb, and Joshua Cader
others. While I faced marginalization and discrimination as a young queer woman, I was also privileged as a white, middle-class college student. Discourse communities, such as those created by queer girls and young women on social media, are leading
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 62–79 (18 total)
Guest Editorial
Queering Girlhood
Barbara Jane Brickman
about the ways in which the queer girl might effect a redefinition of girlhood itself. Over ten years ago, Marnina Gonick confronted the burgeoning field of girls’ studies with a foundational question, “Are queer girls, girls?” (2006: 122). In the
Fanfic'ing Film
Queer Youth Cinema Reclaims Pop Culture
Andrew Scahill
adult audience, but all the films evidenced a conflicting desire between the necessity of realism and the desire for something more utopic. Susan Driver has noted that queer girls are adept at “experiencing the pleasures of popular media while retaining
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2019
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 114–124 (11 total)
Queer Girlhoods in Contemporary Comics
Disrupting Normative Notions
Mel Gibson
that the other girls should, perhaps, choose to hate her, a point she acknowledges when confessing her jealousy. However, it also serves to indicate Zoe's increasing resistance to normative girlhoods, anticipating her later emergence as a queer girl
Editorial
Girlhood Studies at 10
Claudia Mitchell
contemporary women.” Michelle Miller, in her article, “Theorizing “The Plunge”: [Queer] Girls’ Adolescence, Risk, and Subjectivity in Blue is the Warmest Color ,” proposes that if we are “to honor girls’ sexual subjectivity, we must treat romantic risk
Repetitions of Desire
Queering the One Direction Fangirl
Hannah McCann and Clare Southerton
that has aged with the band's duration goes some way towards answering Whitney Monaghan's question about the figure of the “queer girl,” when she asks, “Do they hold onto their queerness or is this subsumed into normativity, leaving queer girls to grow
In Girlhood Studies
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2019
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- Research Article
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- 49–65 (17 total)