{"product_id":"girlhood-and-the-politics-of-place-9781785330179","title":"Girlhood and the Politics of Place","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tExamining context-specific conditions in which girls live, learn, work, play, and organize deepens the understanding of place-making practices of girls and young women worldwide. Focusing on place across health, literary and historical studies, art history, communications, media studies, sociology, and education allows for investigations of how girlhood is positioned in relation to interdisciplinary and transnational research methodologies, media environments, geographic locations, history, and social spaces. This book offers a comprehensive reading on how girlhood scholars construct and deploy research frameworks that directly engage girls in the research process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Firmly grounded in gender and women’s studies’ core concepts and questions, students and scholars alike will find this an important contribution Girlhood Studies, which each chapter promising various applications perhaps not yet considered.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Canadian Women’s Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Comprised of eighteen erudite, informative, and insightful articles by experts in their field,\u003c\/em\u003e Girlhood and the Politics of Place \u003cem\u003eis enhanced with the further inclusion of an illuminating Introduction… an Epilogue, numerous figures and a table… and a twenty-one page Index. Presenting a body of seminal and original scholarship, [this volume] is an extraordinary study and highly recommended for both college and university library collections.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Midwest Book Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Much of the literature in the field can fall into romanticizing girls; essentialist notions of girls based on age-as-fact, race, geography, or socioeconomics; or theoretical constructs that mirror popular cultural conceptions rather than challenging them. This text avoids these traps. The chapters take up a significant social and political consideration in the lives and subjectivities of girls and the construction of ideas of girls.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Susan Talburt\u003c\/strong\u003e, Georgia State University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“A fascinating collection of truly creative essays that convincingly demonstrates how integral and energizing ‘place-making’ is to girls’ everyday lives, identities, activism, and scholarship. By inspiring new avenues of scholarly investigation, [this book] can potentially reshape the field of Girls Studies.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Miriam Forman-Brunell\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Missouri, Kansas City\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Significance of Place in Girlhood Studies\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCarrie Rentschler and Claudia Mitchell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSECTION I: GIRLS IN LATITUTDE AND LONGITUDE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Under the Shadow of Empire: Indigenous Girls' Presencing as Decolonizing Force\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSandrina de Finney\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Voices in Longitude and Latitude: Girlhood at the Intersection of Art and Ethnography\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMarnina Gonick\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Nowhere to Go, Nothing to Do: Place, Desire, and Country Girlhood\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCatherine Driscoll\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Landscapes of Academic Success: Smart Girls and School Culture\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eRebecca Raby and Shauna Pomerantz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSECTION II: SITUATED KNOWLEDGE, SELF-REFLEXIVE PRACTICE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Charting Girlhood Studies\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eClaudia Mitchell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e Teen Feminist Killjoys? Mapping Girls’ Affective Encounters with Femininity, Sexuality, and Feminism at School\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJessica Ringrose and Emma Renold\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Placing the Girlhood Scholar into the Politics of Change: A Reflexive Account\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCaroline Caron\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e Returns and Departures Through Girlhood: Memory-work as an Approach to the Politics of Place in Mother-Daughter Narratives\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTeresa Strong-Wilson\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Girls Action Network: Reflecting on Systems Change through the Politics of Place\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTatiana Fraser, Nisha Sajnani, Alyssa Louw, and Stephanie Austin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSECTION III: GIRLS AND MEDIA SPACES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e “What This Picture of a Girl Means to Me”: The Place of Girlhood Images in the Art History University Classroom\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLoren Lerner\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Modding as Making: Religious Flap Books Created by Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Girls\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJacqueline Reid-Walsh\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e Where are the Irish Girls? Girlhood, Irishness, and L.T. Meade\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSusan Cahill\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e “God is a DJ”: Girls, Music, Performance, and Negotiating Space\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGeraldine Bloustien\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/strong\u003e Creating and Regulating Identity in Online Spaces: Girlhood, Social Networking, and Avatars\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eConnie Morrison\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSECTION IV: STUDYING THE SPACES OF GIRLS’ ACTIVISM\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 15.\u003c\/strong\u003e Making Activism Accessible: Exploring Girls’ Blogs as Sites of Contemporary Feminist Activism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJessalynn Keller\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 16.\u003c\/strong\u003e “Ain’t no Justice… It’s Just Us”: Girls Organizing Against Sexual and Carceral Violence\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLena Palacios\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 17.\u003c\/strong\u003e From the Playing Field to the Policy Table: Stakeholders’ Responses to Rwandan Schoolgirls’ Photographs on Physical Activity and Sport in Secondary Schools\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLysanne Rivard\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 18.\u003c\/strong\u003e Girls, Condoms, Tradition, and Abstinence: Making Sense of HIV Prevention Discourses in Rural South Africa\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKatie MacEntee\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eEpilogue\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tBibliography\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042347811159,"sku":"9781785330179","price":15.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781785330179.jpg?v=1750953976","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/girlhood-and-the-politics-of-place-9781785330179","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}