The Routledge Companion to Girls' Studies Routledge Companions to Gender Series

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.

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

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).