Girlhood and the Politics of Place

356 Pages·2016·3.101 MB·English

by  Claudia Mitchell, Carrie Rentschler (eds.)

GIRLHOOD AND THE POLITICS OF PLACE

GIRLHOOD AND THE POLITICS OF PLACE
Edited by
Claudia Mitchell and Carrie Rentschler
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Girlhood and the politics of place / edited by Claudia Mitchell and
 Carrie Rentschler.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-85745-602-1 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-78533-017-9 (paperback)
— ISBN 978-0-85745-647-2 (ebook)
1. Girls. 2. Girls—Social conditions. I. Mitchell, Claudia, editor.
II. Rentschler, Carrie A., 1971– editor.
HQ798.G52555 2016
305.23082—dc23
2015026967
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Dedication
In memory of the fourteen women who died in
the Polytechnique Massacre, Montreal, 6 December 1989

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Contents
List of Illustrations x
Acknowledgements xii
Introduction The Signifi cance of Place in Girlhood Studies 1
Carrie Rentschler and Claudia Mitchell
SECTION 1. GIRLS IN LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE
Chapter 1 Under the Shadow of Empire: Indigenous Girls’
Presencing as Decolonizing Force 19
Sandrina de Finney
Chapter 2 Voices in Longitude and Latitude: Girlhood at
the Intersection of Art and Ethnography 38
Marnina Gonick
Chapter 3 Nowhere to Go, Nothing to Do: Place, Desire,
and Country Girlhood 51
Catherine Driscoll
Chapter 4 Landscapes of Academic Success: Smart Girls
and School Culture 68
Rebecca Raby and Shauna Pomerantz
SECTION 2. SITUATED KNOWLEDGE, SELF-REFLEXIVE PRACTICE
Chapter 5 Charting Girlhood Studies 87
Claudia Mitchell
Chapter 6 Teen Feminist Killjoys? Mapping Girls’ Aff ective
Encounters with Femininity, Sexuality, and
Feminism at School 104
Jessica Ringrose and Emma Renold
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Chapter 7 Placing the Girlhood Scholar into the Politics
of Change: A Refl exive Account 122
Caroline Caron
Chapter 8 Returns and Departures Through Girlhood:
Memory-Work as an Approach to the Politics of
Place in Mother-Daughter Narratives 137
Teresa Strong-Wilson
Chapter 9 Girls Action Network: Refl ecting on Systems
Change through the Politics of Place 154
Tatiana Fraser, Nisha Sajnani, Alyssa Louw,
and Stephanie Austin
SECTION 3. 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 175
Loren Lerner
Chapter 11 Modding as Making: Religious Flap Books
Created by Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century
Anglo-American Girls 195
Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
Chapter 12 Where Are the Irish Girls? Girlhood, Irishness,
and LT Meade 212
Susan Cahill
Chapter 13 “God Is a DJ”: Girls, Music, Performance, and
Negotiating Space 228
Geraldine Bloustien
Chapter 14 Creating and Regulating Identity in Online
Spaces: Girlhood, Social Networking, and Avatars 244
Connie Morrison
SECTION 4. STUDYING THE SPACES OF GIRLS’ ACTIVISM
Chapter 15 Making Activism Accessible: Exploring Girls’
Blogs as Sites of Contemporary Feminist Activism 261
Jessalynn Keller
Chapter 16 “Ain’t No Justice … It’s Just Us”: Girls Organizing
against Sexual and Carceral Violence 279
Lena Palacios