Girls Take Action

Activism Networks by, for, and with Girls and Young Women

Buch | Hardcover

270 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80539-710-6 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

An illuminating examination of activism networks run for, by, and with girls and young women globally, Girls Take Action highlights the myriad ways girls and young women are exercising their agency in the face of injustice, considering especially the role collaboration plays in creating a more transnational understanding of girlhood.

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. Girls Take Action shines 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.

Catherine Vanner is an Assistant Professor and the VPRI Research Chair for the Faculty of Education at the University of Windsor. Previously, she worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University and an Education Advisor at Plan International Canada and the Canadian International Development Agency. Specializing in the use of qualitative and participatory methods to examine the relationship between education, gender, and violence, her recent publications include Teaching Peace and Conflict: The Multiple Roles of School Textbooks in Peacebuilding (Springer, 2022), co-edited with Spogmai Akseer and Thursica Kovinthan Levi, and journal articles in Girlhood Studies, Gender & Education, and Pedagogy, Culture & Society.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Collective Urgency: Networks of Girls and Young Women Taking Action

Catherine Vanner

Part I: By Girls and Young Women

Chapter 1. Chalk Back: The Girl and Youth-Led Street Art Movement to #StopStreetHarassment

Natasha Harris-Harb and Sophie Sandberg

Chapter 2. Hopeful, Harmless, and Heroic: Figuring the Girl Activist as Global Savior

Jessica K. Taft

Chapter 3. Young Feminists Leading Change: Gender Transformative Education in Action

Ashlee Burnett, Dennis Glasgow, and Maryjacob Okwuosa

Chapter 4. “Because There Are Young Women Behind Me:” Learning from the Testimonios of Young Undocumented Women Advocates

Carolina Silva

Chapter 5. Sakai Magara: Activist Girl of Early Twentieth Century Japan

Barbara Hartley

Part II: For Girls and Young Women

Chapter 6. “Unsilencing the Girls:” Fostering a Practice of Schoolgirls’ Agentic Roles and Participation in Decision-Making in Education in Oyo State, Nigeria

Edem Dorothy Ossai, Oluwadamilola Adedayo, Ewaoluwa Raufu, and Busayo Adebayo

Chapter 7. Photovoice and Cartography as Activist Tools:Mining for Solutions with Disabled Girls of Color in One U.S. High School

Amanda L. Miller and Jennifer A. Kurth

Chapter 8. Towards a Fairer Future: An Activist Model of Black Girl Leadership

Courtney Cook

Part III: With Girls and Young Women

Chapter 9. Be Well and Stay Safe:Facebook, Community Activism and Inuit Girls in the time of COVID

Julia Ussak, Haily May Ussak, Jennica Alhda Barcial, and Marnina Gonick

Chapter 10. Negotiating Girl-led Advocacy: Addressing Early and Forced Marriage in South Africa

Sadiyya Haffejee, Astrid Treffry-Goatley, Lisa Wiebesiek, and Nkonzo Mkhize

Chapter 11. Reflections on Expanding Girls’ Political Capital at the United Nations

Emily Bent

Chapter 12. Trans Girls’ Activism on YouTube and Instagram:A Radical Media Engagement of Mothers and Daughters

Lucas R. Platero, Iolanda Tortajada, and Cilia Willem

Chapter 13. “Speak With Girls, Not for Them:” Supporting Girls’ Action Against Rape Culture

Alexe Bernier and Sarah Winstanley

Chapter 14. The Inheritance of Activism: Does Social Capital Shape Women’s Lives?

Supriya Baily, Gloria Wang, and Elisabeth Scotto-Lavino

Conclusion: Acting Together

Catherine Vanner

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	06.12.2024
Reihe/Serie	Transnational Girlhoods
Zusatzinfo	12 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kinder- / Jugendbuch ► Sachbücher
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-80539-710-9 / 1805397109
ISBN-13	978-1-80539-710-6 / 9781805397106
Zustand	Neuware