Girls Take Action : Activism Networks by, for, and with Girls and Young Women.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vanner, Catherine.

Series:

Transnational Girlhoods Series

Transnational Girlhoods Series ; v.8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Girls--Political activity.

Girls.

Social action.

Young women--Political activity.

Young women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2025.

Summary:

The repression of the rights of girls and women is continuously threatened in a wide range of global cultural contexts. From the rise in laws restricting reproductive freedom to the growth in essentialist ideas about gender and the backlash to the #MeToo movement, the challenges facing girls and young women are as diverse as the activism networks established to address them. Girls Take Action shines light on the myriad ways girls and young women are exercising agency in the face of injustice, considering especially the role of community and collaboration in fostering activism networks and ultimately a more transnational understanding of girlhood.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction Collective Urgency: Networks of Girls and Young Women Taking Action

Part I. By Girls and Young Women

Chapter 1 Chalk Back: The Girl and Youth-Led Street Art Movement to #StopStreetHarassment

Chapter 2 Hopeful, Harmless, and Heroic: Figuring the Girl Activist as Global Savior

Chapter 3 Young Feminists Leading Change: Gender Transformative Education in Action

Chapter 4 “Because There Are Young Women Behind Me”: Learning from the Testimonios of Young Undocumented Women Advocates

Chapter 5 Sakai Magara: Activist Girl of Early Twentieth Century Japan

Part II. For Girls and Young Women

Chapter 6 “Unsilencing the Girls”: Fostering a Practice of Schoolgirls’ Agentic Roles and Participation in Decision-Making in Education in Oyo State, Nigeria

Chapter 7 Photovoice and Cartography as Activist Tools: Mining for Solutions with Disabled Girls of Color in One U.S. High School

Chapter 8 Towards a Fairer Future: An Activist Model of Black Girl Leadership

Part III. With Girls and Young Women

Chapter 9 Be Well and Stay Safe: Facebook, Community Activism, and Inuit Girls in the Time of COVID

Chapter 10 Negotiating Girl-Led Advocacy: Addressing Early and Forced Marriage in South Africa

Chapter 11 Reflections on Expanding Girls’ Political Capital at the United Nations

Chapter 12 Trans Girls’ Activism on YouTube and Instagram: A Radical Media Engagement of Mothers and Daughters

Chapter 13 “Speak with Girls, Not for Them”: Supporting Girls’ Action Against Rape Culture

Chapter 14 The Inheritance of Activism: Does Social Capital Shape Women’s Lives?

Conclusion Acting Together

Index

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781805397120

1805397125

9781805397113

1805397117

OCLC:

1477222291