Reviews
"Comprised of eighteen erudite, informative, and insightful articles by experts in their field, Girlhood and the Politics of Place is 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." Midwest Book Review "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." Susan Talburt, Georgia State University "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." Miriam Forman-Brunell, University of Missouri, Kansas City, "Comprised of eighteen erudite, informative, and insightful articles by experts in their field, Girlhood and the Politics of Place is 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." · Midwest Book Review "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." · Susan Talburt, Georgia State University "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." · Miriam Forman-Brunell, University of Missouri, Kansas City, "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." · Susan Talburt, Georgia State University "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." · Miriam Forman-Brunell, University of Missouri, Kansas City, "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." · Susan Talburt, Georgia State University "A fascinating collection of truly creative essays... 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." · Miriam Forman-Brunell, University of Missouri, Kansas City
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Significance of Place in Girlhood Studies Carrie Rentschler and Claudia Mitchell SECTION I: GIRLS IN LATITUTDE AND LONGITUDE Chapter 1. Under the Shadow of Empire: Indigenous Girls' Presencing as Decolonizing Force Sandrina de Finney Chapter 2. Voices in Longitude and Latitude: Girlhood at the Intersection of Art and Ethnography Marnina Gonick Chapter 3. Nowhere to Go, Nothing to Do: Place, Desire, and Country Girlhood Catherine Driscoll Chapter 4. Landscapes of Academic Success: Smart Girls and School Culture Rebecca Raby and Shauna Pomerantz SECTION II: SITUATED KNOWLEDGE, SELF-REFLEXIVE PRACTICE Chapter 5. Charting Girlhood Studies Claudia Mitchell Chapter 6. Teen Feminist Killjoys? Mapping Girls' Affective Encounters with Femininity, Sexuality, and Feminism at School Jessica Ringrose and Emma Renold Chapter 7. Placing the Girlhood Scholar into the Politics of Change: A Reflexive Account Caroline Caron Chapter 8. Returns and Departures Through Girlhood: Memory-work as an Approach to the Politics of Place in Mother-Daughter Narratives Teresa Strong-Wilson Chapter 9. Girls Action Network: Reflecting on Systems Change through the Politics of Place Tatiana Fraser, Nisha Sajnani, Alyssa Louw, and Stephanie Austin SECTION III: GIRLS AND MEDIA SPACES Chapter 10. "What This Picture of a Girl Means to Me": The Place of Girlhood Images in the Art History University Classroom Loren Lerner Chapter 11. Modding as Making: Religious Flap Books Created by Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Girls Jacqueline Reid-Walsh Chapter 12. Where are the Irish Girls? Girlhood, Irishness, and L.T. Meade Susan Cahill Chapter 13. "God is a DJ": Girls, Music, Performance, and Negotiating Space Geraldine Bloustien Chapter 14. Creating and Regulating Identity in Online Spaces: Girlhood, Social Networking, and Avatars Connie Morrison SECTION IV: STUDYING THE SPACES OF GIRLS' ACTIVISM Chapter 15. Making Activism Accessible: Exploring Girls' Blogs as Sites of Contemporary Feminist Activism Jessalynn Keller Chapter 16. "Ain't no Justice... It's Just Us": Girls Organizing Against Sexual and Carceral Violence Lena Palacios Chapter 17. From the Playing Field to the Policy Table: Stakeholders' Responses to Rwandan Schoolgirls' Photographs on Physical Activity and Sport in Secondary Schools Lysanne Rivard Chapter 18. Girls, Condoms, Tradition, and Abstinence: Making Sense of HIV Prevention Discourses in Rural South Africa Katie MacEntee Epilogue Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index
