{"id":20065,"date":"2024-10-09T12:32:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T12:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/?p=20065"},"modified":"2025-03-25T10:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T10:38:54","slug":"international-day-of-the-girl-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/blog\/international-day-of-the-girl-child","title":{"rendered":"International Day of the Girl Child"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Today is the United Nations’ International Day of the Girl Child<\/a>, and this year’s theme is \u2018Girls\u2019 vision for the future\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Click to expand text: The UN explains more on this year’s International Day of the Girl Child<\/summary>\n

Today\u2019s generation of girls is disproportionately affected by global crises of climate, conflict, poverty and pushback on hard won gains for human rights and gender equality. Too many girls are still denied their rights, restricting their choices and limiting their futures.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet, recent analysis shows that girls are not only courageous in the face of crisis, but hopeful for the future. Every day, they are taking action to realize a vision of a world in which all girls are protected, respected and empowered. But girls cannot realize this vision alone. They need allies who listen to and respond to their needs. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the right support, resources and opportunities, the potential of the world\u2019s more than 1.1 billion girls is limitless. And when girls lead, the impact is immediate and wide reaching: families, communities and economies are all stronger, our future brighter.<\/em> It is time to listen to girls, to invest in proven solutions that will accelerate progress towards a future in which every girl can fulfil her potential.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read Five game-changing solutions with and for adolescent girls<\/a>, the background of International Day of the Girl Child, Vanessa Nakate on how the climate crisis impacts girls, and more from the UN page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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In the spirit of this day, we have compiled a collection of some of our titles looking at girlhood below, with free to read introductions and some open access titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For more content, you can browse though our books by subject ‘Gender Studies and Sexuality’ here<\/a><\/strong>, or take a look at our book series ‘Transnational Girlhoods’ here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To be published January\u00a02025<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Girls Take Action<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Activism Networks by, for, and with Girls and Young Women<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Catherine Vanner<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The repression of the rights of girls and women is continuously threatened in a wide range of global cultural contexts. From the rise in laws restricting reproductive freedom to the growth in essentialist ideas about gender and the backlash to the #MeToo movement, the challenges facing girls and young women are as diverse as the activism networks established to address them.\u00a0Girls Take Action<\/em>\u00a0shines light on the myriad ways girls and young women are exercising agency in the face of injustice, considering especially the role of community and collaboration in fostering activism networks and ultimately a more transnational understanding of girlhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 8, Transnational Girlhoods<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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To be published<\/em><\/em> November\u00a02024<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Becoming Good Women<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schooling, Aspirations and Imagining the Future Among Female Students in Sri Lanka<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laura Shamali Batatota<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u2018good\u2019 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\u2019s aspirations of \u2018figuring out\u2019 their identity and visions of the future in the backdrop of nation-building processes within the school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 7, Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Open Access<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black Schoolgirls in Space<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stories of Black Girlhoods Gathered on Educational Terrain<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Esther O. Ohito and Luc\u00eda Mock Mu\u00f1oz de Luna<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Locating Black girls\u2019 desires, needs, knowledge bases, and lived experiences in relation to their social identities has become increasingly important in the study of transnational girlhoods.\u00a0Black Schoolgirls in Space<\/em>\u00a0pushes 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 7, Transnational Girlhoods<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read freely available\u00a0introduction<\/a>, and more with Open Access.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Girls in Global Development<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Figurations of Gendered Power<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Heather Switzer, Karishma Desai, and Emily Bent<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis 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 \u201cGirls in Development\u201d paradigm and the ways it shapes the current landscape of development and thus the lives of girls around the world.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Jessica Taft<\/strong>, University of California Santa Cruz<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 6, Transnational Girlhoods<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read freely available\u00a0introduction<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Open Access<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Girl in the Pandemic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transnational Perspectives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Claudia Mitchell and Ann Smith<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c<\/em>The Girl in the Pandemic\u00a0makes 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.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Relebohile Moletsane<\/strong>, University of KwaZulu-Natal<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 5, Transnational Girlhoods<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read freely available\u00a0introduction<\/a>, and more with Open Access.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Punching Back<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gender, Religion and Belonging in Women-Only Kickboxing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jasmijn Rana<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJasmijn 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.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Paul Silverstein<\/strong>, Reed College<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 5, New Anthropologies of Europe: Perspectives and Provocations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read freely available\u00a0introduction<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u04e6mie Sex Affiliation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Papuan Nature<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marta Rohatynskyj<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt offers a unique contribution to the literature on Papua New Guinea societies. The ethnography was collected at a time when it was possible to engage with people who had witnessed and participated in complex rites which have lapsed or been replaced by recent introductions.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 James Leach<\/strong>, CNRS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 14, ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read freely available\u00a0introduction<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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An American Icon in Puerto Rico<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emily R. Aguil\u00f3-P\u00e9rez<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe book provides a thought-provoking and insightful exploration of the transnational impact of Barbie as a cultural object, highlighting the importance of critically examining the cultural products that shape our understanding of gender, race, and identity.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Women’s Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 4, Transnational Girlhoods<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read freely available\u00a0introduction<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Living Like a Girl<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agency, Social Vulnerability and Welfare Measures in Europe and Beyond<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Maria A. Vogel and Linda Arnell<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis collection truly captures what it means to live like a girl in contemporary Europe, and it is sure to be a key resource for scholars working in the area for years to come.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Fiona Vera-Gray<\/strong>, Durham\u00a0University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 3, Transnational Girlhoods<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read freely available\u00a0introduction<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ethical Practice in Participatory Visual Research with Girls<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transnational Approaches<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Relebohile Moletsane, Lisa Wiebesiek, Astrid Treffry-Goatley, and April Mandrona<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[This] is an outstanding book with highly fascinating chapter contributions theorizing significant issues of co-researchers, and thereby offering a how-to for conducting participatory research in an ethical manner.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Participatory Research Methods<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 2, Transnational Girlhoods<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read freely available\u00a0introduction<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Deconstructing Dolls<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Girlhoods and the Meanings of Play<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Miriam Forman-Brunell<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent decades, emerging scholarship in the field of girlhood studies has led to a particular interest in dolls as sources of documentary evidence.\u00a0Deconstructing Dolls<\/em>\u00a0pushes the boundaries of doll studies by expanding the definition of dolls, ages of doll players, sites of play, research methods, and application of theory. By utilizing a variety of new approaches, this collected volume seeks to understand the historical and contemporary significance of dolls and girlhood play, particularly as they relate to social meanings in the lives of girls and young women across race, age, time, and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Girl in the Text<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Ann Smith<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnn Smith\u2019s collection provides both inspiration and a challenge to readers, writers, and researchers of girls and girls themselves to transverse physical and conceptual borders critically to write their own transnational girl into lived and textual existence.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2022 Girlhood Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Volume 1, Transnational Girlhoods<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For more content, you can browse though our books by subject ‘Gender Studies and Sexuality’ here<\/a>, or take a look at our books series ‘Transnational Girlhoods’ here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Girlhood Studies<\/a>
An Interdisciplinary Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal<\/em> 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\u2019 lives to a broad, cross-disciplinary audience of scholars, researchers, practitioners in the fields of education, social service and health care and policy makers.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Aspasia<\/a>
The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women\u2019s and Gender History\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aspasia<\/em> is the international peer-reviewed annual of women\u2019s and gender history of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe (CESEE). It aims to transform European women\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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