Girlhood
Yasmin Jiwani, Candis Steenbergen, Claudia Mitchell, eds.

Girlhood is a collection of essays on girls, girlhood and girl culture. Drawing from the works of national and international scholars, this book focuses on the multifaceted nature of girls' lived experiences. Topics examined include racism, sexism and classism; the power and politics of schoolgirl style; encounters with violence; cyberspace; sexuality; identity formation; and popular culture. This groundbreaking collection offers a complicated portrait of girls in the 21st century: good girls and bad girls, girls who are creating their own girl culture and giving a whole new meaning to "girl" power. These provocative essays cover all aspects of girlhood as they bring to life the ever-changing identities of today's young women.

Yasmin Jiwani is a professor in the Department of Communications at Concordia University who is well known for her research in feminism, gender, race, and violence. She holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Intersectionality, Violence and Resistance. Candis Steenbergen has been a lecturer at Concordia University's Simone de Beauvoir Institute of Women’s Studies since 2002, teaching classes on feminism and popular culture, postfeminism, and marxist analysis. Claudia Mitchell is a distinguished professor at McGill University in the Faculty of Education who specializes in girlhood studies, sexual and reproductive health rights, gender based violence, and gender equity.

Praise for Girlhood

"An excellent sampler... of the work being accomplished with girls and in girlhood studies today" - Andrea Belcham, Montreal Review of Books

2006

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