The Routledge Companion to Girls' Studies / edited by Sharon Mazzarella.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mazzarella, Sharon R., editor.

Series:

Routledge companions to gender.

Routledge Companions to Gender Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage girls--Psychology.

Teenage girls.

Young women--Social conditions.

Young women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (437 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, [2024]

Summary:

The Routledge Companion to Girls' Studies is the definitive guide to the international, interdisciplinary, and intersectional field of Girls' Studies, and is of value to scholars and students of Gender Studies, Media Studies, Sociology, Education, Health, Literature, Sexuality Studies, Communication, Youth Studies, and more.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part One What Can Girls' Studies Be?

1 Girl Power and Its Afterlife: Neoliberalism and the Invention of Girlhood Studies

2 Girls' Studies and the Humanities: Recognizing Human-as-Girl

3 For the Love of Black Girls: Building Black Girlhood Studies as a Lifejacket

4 Listen Up: Trans Girls, Trans Girlhoods, and Trans Girl Joy

5 Girlhood Studies: The First Fifteen Years

6 Reflecting on the Development of Girlhood Studies in Israel

7 Polaroid Possibilities: Immanent Girlhood and the Tangle of Temporality

8 Looking Forward: The Future of Girls' Studies

Part Two Who Is the "Girl" in Girls' Studies?

9 A Decolonial Approach to Leadership and Activism With Girls With Disabilities Across Southern Spaces: Creating Spaces for Inclusion From Within

10 Girls' Digital Citizenship Elsewhere

11 Kitab Versus Hijab: Muslim Girls Regenerating Politics in India

12 Funding Girls' Activism: Cooptation, Feminism, and Institutional Change

13 Girls Fighting for the Planet: Climate Activism as Caring Intimate Counterpublics

14 "Girls Can't Do This Alone": Understanding Girls' Agency During Adolescence in Nine Countries

15 Adolescent Girls' Migration in the Global South: Moving Into Adulthood

16 Girls in Deprived Areas: Place, Violence, and Femininity

17 Visibilizing Quinceañeras as Generational and Ethnic Bridge: Flashpoints of Latina Girlhoods

Part Three Representing Girls and Girlhoods

18 Representing Queer Girlhoods in 2020s Australian Film and Television

19 Dare to Dream: Family, Ambition, and Girlhood in Post-Millennial South Asian Cinema

20 Reimagining Girlhood in Contemporary Malaysian Youth Literature.

21 "What It Feels Like for a Girl": Exploring Girlhood in a Jamaican Context Through Olive Senior's "Do Angels Wear Brassieres?"

22 "Work, Sleep, Make Money": Girlboss Memes, Feminine Precarities, and the Endurance of the "Problematic" Girl

23 The Internet of (Feminist) Girls: Re-reading Gendered Internet Histories

24 (Re)visiting a Girl Revolution: Riot Grrrl Zines, Liminality, and Anarcha-Feminism

25 The Erasure of Counter-Stereotypical Female Characters From Disney's Transmedia Toys: Exploring Toy, Media, and Audience Tensions

26 Celebrity Girls' Studies: Interdisciplinary Scholarship on Fame, Girlhoods, and Identity

Part Four Bodies, Sex, and Sexualities

27 Black Girls' Adultification in South America as a Contemporary Case of Crimes Against Humanity

28 The Sexual Health of Adolescents in Uganda: When Restricting Sexual and Reproductive Health Programs Is All About Girls

29 Crush-Tastic: When Girls Encounter Sexually Explicit Materials

30 Talking with Girls about Porn

31 Junior Fiction Magazines as a Means of Sex Education: Examining Yoshida Toshi's The Castle of Venus

32 "God Is Always Watching You, Capeesh?": Satirizing Religion and Empowering Girls' Sexuality

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781040000878

1040000878

9780367821890

0367821893

OCLC:

1416755279