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Today the observance of Women’s Equality Day has grown to mean much more than just sharing the right to the vote, but also calls attention to women’s continuing efforts toward full equality. Numerous International organisations continue to work to provide women across the globe with equal opportunities to education and employment, pushing against suppression and violence towards women and against the discrimination and stereotyping which still occur in every society. For more information on the history and for further resources please visit www.nwhp.org
To be published in November 2024
Schooling, Aspirations and Imagining the Future Among Female Students in Sri Lanka
Laura Shamali Batatota
Volume 7, Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories
For female Sinhalese students attending a national school in the Central Province of Sri Lanka, the school serves as a significant base for cultural production, particularly in reproducing ethno-religious hegemony under the guise of ‘good’ Buddhist girls. It illustrates that tuition space acts as an important site for placemaking, where students play out their cosmopolitan aspirations whilst acquiring educational capital. Drawing on theories of social reproduction, the book examines young people’s aspirations of ‘figuring out’ their identity and visions of the future in the backdrop of nation-building processes within the school.
Open Access
Stories of Black Girlhoods Gathered on Educational Terrain
Edited by Esther O. Ohito and Lucía Mock Muñoz de Luna
Volume 7, Transnational Girlhoods
Locating Black girls’ desires, needs, knowledge bases, and lived experiences in relation to their social identities has become increasingly important in the study of transnational girlhoods. Black Schoolgirls in Space pushes this discourse even further by exploring how Black girls negotiate and navigate borders of blackness, gender, and girlhood in educational spaces. The contributors of this collected volume highlight Black girls as actors and agents of not only girlhood but also the larger, transnational educational worlds in which their girlhoods are contained.
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Sterilization, Care and Reproductive Chronicity in Rural North India
Eva Fiks
Volume 4, Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories
“The book draws on detailed ethnographic research and is rich with empirical details that are framed within larger debates on women’s health, care, and state formation. The introduction immediately draws in the reader. It is a well-written and well-researched book.” • Lipika Kamra, Jindal Global University
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Representations of Modern Women in the German Illustrated Press, 1920-1960
Jennifer Lynn
In this comprehensive, long-view study on the concept of the Neue or Moderne Frau (New or Modern Woman) that spans the Weimar Republic, Third Reich, post-war period, and a divided Germany, Contested Femininities explores how different political and social groups constructed images of women to present competing visions of the future. It takes the highly contested representations of women presented in the illustrated press and examines how they emerged as crucial markers of modernity. In doing so it reveals the surprising continuity of these images across political periods and reflects on how debates over paid work, the gender division of labor in the household, the politics of the body, and consumption, played a central role in how different German regimes defined the Modern Woman.
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Open Access
The Reproductive Politics of Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss in England
Aimee Louise Middlemiss
Volume 54, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
“In this original and conceptually sophisticated project Middlemiss handles incredibly difficult interview material with extraordinary sensitivity and care. She does not shy away from difficult details but makes these often very raw stories more understandable through serious analytic work.” • Linda L. Layne, University of Cambridge
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Figurations of Gendered Power
Edited by Heather Switzer, Karishma Desai, and Emily Bent
Volume 6, Transnational Girlhoods
“This collection is a well-imagined, important, incisive contribution to the fields of girlhood studies, development studies, and gender studies that deftly exposes the contradictions, complications, and limits of the “Girls in Development” paradigm and the ways it shapes the current landscape of development and thus the lives of girls around the world.” • Jessica Taft, University of California Santa Cruz
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GENDER IN GERMANY AND BEYOND
Exploring the Legacy of Jean Quataert
Edited by Jennifer V. Evans and Shelley E. Rose
“This is a collection of excellent scholarly historical essay honoring the late professor Jean H. Quataert. The articles by her colleagues and her former students further explore research themes (labor, law, and human rights) that were especially important features of Quataert’s own scholarly development” • Karen Offen, Stanford University
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Open Access
THE GIRL IN THE PANDEMIC
Transnational Perspectives
Edited by Claudia Mitchell and Ann Smith
Volume 5, Transnational Girlhoods
“The Girl in the Pandemic makes a unique and much-needed contribution to the scholarship on Girlhood Studies in times of crises in different global contexts and particularly including scholarship from the global south and north.” • Relebohile Moletsane, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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COSMOPOLITAN REFUGEES
Somali Migrant Women in Nairobi and Johannesburg
Nereida Ripero-Muñiz
Volume 44, Forced Migration
“This is a fine book that offers fascinating comparative material from two well-chosen locations to discuss the lives and identity of Somali women migrants in Kenya and South Africa. It is theoretically astute and contains much important ethnographic material. I can see it becoming a key reference for the study of Somali diaspora in particular, and diaspora and identity in general.” • Neil Carrier, University of Bristol
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PUNCHING BACK
Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing
Jasmijn Rana
Volume 5, New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations
“Jasmijn Rana has written an engaging, well-crafted and long-anticipated ethnography of the intersectionally gendered and racialized experience of Muslim Dutch women, drawn from her own apprenticeship in women-only kickboxing venues in the southern neighbourhoods of The Hague.” • Paul Silverstein, Reed College
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Paperback Available
WAITHOOD
Gender, Education, and Global Delays in Marriage and Childbearing
Edited by Marcia C. Inhorn and Nancy J. Smith-Hefner
Volume 47, Fertility, Reproduction and Sexuality: Social and Cultural Perspectives
“Using a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods with participants from multiple countries, contributing authors find that there are multiple ways to understand the liminality implied by “waithood.”…This book could be used in courses on political science, women’s studies, sociology, and ethnic studies…Recommended” • Choice
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Girlhood Studies
An Interdisciplinary Journal
Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for the critical discussion of girlhood from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and for the dissemination of current research and reflections on girls’ lives to a broad, cross-disciplinary audience of scholars, researchers, practitioners in the fields of education, social service and health care and policy makers.
Aspasia
The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women’s and Gender History
Special Issue: A Hundred Years of International Women’s Day in CESEE
Aspasia is the international peer-reviewed annual of women’s and gender history of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe (CESEE). It aims to transform European women’s and gender history by expanding comparative research on women and gender to all parts of Europe, creating a European history of women and gender that encompasses more than the traditional Western European perspective.
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