Routledge Companion to Girls'' Studies

The Routledge Companion to Girls' Studies is the definitive guide to the international, interdisciplinary, and intersectional field of Girls' Studies, bringing together leading and emerging scholars across a range of academic disciplines to address timely topics on global girls and girlhoods.
Spread across four thematic sections, the essays in this collection offer a glimpse into the evolution of the field, directly challenge and move beyond the field's early shortcomings, provide compelling examples of current research, and suggest new directions for future Girls' Studies scholars. Chapters explore the connections between girlhoods and such topics as sexuality, race, ethnicity, religion, education, activism, social-class, ability, gender identity, media representation, and more.
The Routledge Companion to Girls' Studies is of value to scholars and students of gender studies, media studies, sociology, education, health, literature, sexuality studies, communication, child and youth studies, and more.

List of contents

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 vs. 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 

About the author

Sharon R. Mazzarella, PhD, is Professor of Communication Studies at James Madison University, United States. Her research takes a critical/cultural approach to interrogating mediated representations of youth, particularly girls and girlhoods. She is the author of Girls, Moral Panic, and the News Media: Troublesome Bodies (2020, Routledge).

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.

Report

"In this collection, Mazzarella (James Madison Univ.) brings together scholars from across disciplines to consider a range of topics pertaining to girls' studies globally-e.g., education, media representations, sexuality, race, and religion, among others. As the contributors note, girls are not fragile; rather, they are often empowered to be phenomenal women. However, reaching this state requires support and resources to enable girls to forge a path forward into adulthood. Chapters speak to diverse populations of girls, ranging from resilient to at-risk, and mark how these young women can become strong and adaptive. The authors have an affinity for them, demonstrating through their research how impactful and resourceful girls can be as they develop into young women. This significant study is a formidable primer for practitioners working with young girls."
- Diann E. Cameron-Kelly, Associate Professor and Chair of the School of Social Work, Adelphi University, USA

Product details

• Authors: Sharon Mazzarella, Sharon R. Mazzarella
• Assisted by: Sharon Mazzarella (Editor), Sharon R. Mazzarella (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2024
• EAN: 9780367421168
• ISBN: 978-0-367-42116-8
• No. of pages: 420
• Series: Routledge Companions to Gender
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, girlhood;media;gender;education;youth