Emily Bent
Biographic Data
| ID | 4258920 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Bent |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Bent |
| SIGNATURE | BENT E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pace University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5700-9773 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Seat at the Table: Recalling the Promises of Girl Activism and Advocacy
This Special Issue, “A Seat at the Table: Recalling the Promises of Girl Activism and Advocacy,” emerged from a roundtable discussion during the 2023 National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, about working with girls in spaces of political and socio-cultural import. The title of the session was inspired by “A Seat at the Table that I Set: Beyond Social Justice Allies” by Toby Jenkins (2009), in which she explo…
Action for Girls: A Conversation about Girl-led Advocacy at the United Nations
We do not speak often about what it means to support girl leaders as movement allies, nor do we detail what it looks like when girls partner with adults as political equals. In this article, I endeavor to address such absences by presenting an intergenerational exchange about the possibilities for girl-led advocacy at the United Nations. Drawing on solicited reflections from members of the Working Group on Girls, I structure conversation among ni…
When Girls Lead: Changing the Playbook for Climate Justice
Greta Thunberg’s prominence in the climate justice movement symbolically positions girls at the epicenter of geopolitical resistance, but, while she is given immediate authority across media outlets, other girls’ visions of a more equitable future are often disregarded; this demands our careful attention. We discuss the work of five New York City-based girl activists of color engaged in this movement. We explore the ways in which their intersecti…
Reflections on Expanding Girls’ Political Capital at the United Nations
Stories about girl activism circulate as exceptional narratives of individual girl power causing intergenerational partnerships and community collaborations to become invisible and apparently unnecessary to girl activist efforts. At the same time, practitioner-scholars attest that sharing authentic stories about intergenerational feminist praxis is difficult to do since it requires us to write with intentional vulnerability exposing the failures …
This Is Not Another Girl-Power Story: Reading Emma González as a Public Feminist Intellectual
On March 24, 2018, more than 2 million people participated in the March for Our Lives, a nationwide student-led demonstration held to protest gun violence and support gun control legislation following the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida. The March for Our Lives, which the Associated Press has called “one of the biggest youth protests since Vietnam,” captured the fearless outrage and awakened energies of American…
Making It Up
In this article I consider the ethical boundaries of intergenerational activism for the feminist researcher conducting research in pre-existing activist networks. Drawing on a decade of involvement with girl-activists at the United Nations, I revisit key moments that challenged me to re-think the ethical, discursive, and relational conditions of girls' political empowerment. Intergenerational activism creates relational messiness between adults a…
Oppositional Girlhoods and the Challenge of Relational Politics
Building Activist Communities: The Rebel Girls Guide to Creating Social Change
The Boundaries of Girls' Political Participation: A Critical Exploration of Girls' Experiences as Delegates to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
This article examines the boundaries of girls' political participation at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). It explores the structural and conceptual limits to girls' meaningful political participation, and brings critical attention to the problematic management of girls' political practices in formal ‘adult’ spaces. Based upon a series of qualitative interviews with 11 adolescent girl delegates attending the CSW in 2010…
Oppositional Girlhoods and the Challenge of Relational Politics
Making It Up
In this article I consider the ethical boundaries of intergenerational activism for the feminist researcher conducting research in pre-existing activist networks. Drawing on a decade of involvement with girl-activists at the United Nations, I revisit key moments that challenged me to re-think the ethical, discursive, and relational conditions of girls' political empowerment. Intergenerational activism creates relational messiness between adults a…
This Is Not Another Girl-Power Story: Reading Emma González as a Public Feminist Intellectual
On March 24, 2018, more than 2 million people participated in the March for Our Lives, a nationwide student-led demonstration held to protest gun violence and support gun control legislation following the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida. The March for Our Lives, which the Associated Press has called “one of the biggest youth protests since Vietnam,” captured the fearless outrage and awakened energies of American…
The Boundaries of Girls' Political Participation: A Critical Exploration of Girls' Experiences as Delegates to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
This article examines the boundaries of girls' political participation at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). It explores the structural and conceptual limits to girls' meaningful political participation, and brings critical attention to the problematic management of girls' political practices in formal ‘adult’ spaces. Based upon a series of qualitative interviews with 11 adolescent girl delegates attending the CSW in 2010…
Reflections on Expanding Girls’ Political Capital at the United Nations
Stories about girl activism circulate as exceptional narratives of individual girl power causing intergenerational partnerships and community collaborations to become invisible and apparently unnecessary to girl activist efforts. At the same time, practitioner-scholars attest that sharing authentic stories about intergenerational feminist praxis is difficult to do since it requires us to write with intentional vulnerability exposing the failures …
The Boundaries of Girls' Political Participation: A Critical Exploration of Girls' Experiences as Delegates to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
This article examines the boundaries of girls' political participation at the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). It explores the structural and conceptual limits to girls' meaningful political participation, and brings critical attention to the problematic management of girls' political practices in formal ‘adult’ spaces. Based upon a series of qualitative interviews with 11 adolescent girl delegates attending the CSW in 2010…
Building Activist Communities: The Rebel Girls Guide to Creating Social Change
Making It Up
In this article I consider the ethical boundaries of intergenerational activism for the feminist researcher conducting research in pre-existing activist networks. Drawing on a decade of involvement with girl-activists at the United Nations, I revisit key moments that challenged me to re-think the ethical, discursive, and relational conditions of girls' political empowerment. Intergenerational activism creates relational messiness between adults a…
Oppositional Girlhoods and the Challenge of Relational Politics
Reflections on Expanding Girls’ Political Capital at the United Nations
Stories about girl activism circulate as exceptional narratives of individual girl power causing intergenerational partnerships and community collaborations to become invisible and apparently unnecessary to girl activist efforts. At the same time, practitioner-scholars attest that sharing authentic stories about intergenerational feminist praxis is difficult to do since it requires us to write with intentional vulnerability exposing the failures …
This Is Not Another Girl-Power Story: Reading Emma González as a Public Feminist Intellectual
On March 24, 2018, more than 2 million people participated in the March for Our Lives, a nationwide student-led demonstration held to protest gun violence and support gun control legislation following the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida. The March for Our Lives, which the Associated Press has called “one of the biggest youth protests since Vietnam,” captured the fearless outrage and awakened energies of American…
When Girls Lead: Changing the Playbook for Climate Justice
Greta Thunberg’s prominence in the climate justice movement symbolically positions girls at the epicenter of geopolitical resistance, but, while she is given immediate authority across media outlets, other girls’ visions of a more equitable future are often disregarded; this demands our careful attention. We discuss the work of five New York City-based girl activists of color engaged in this movement. We explore the ways in which their intersecti…
A Seat at the Table: Recalling the Promises of Girl Activism and Advocacy
This Special Issue, “A Seat at the Table: Recalling the Promises of Girl Activism and Advocacy,” emerged from a roundtable discussion during the 2023 National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, about working with girls in spaces of political and socio-cultural import. The title of the session was inspired by “A Seat at the Table that I Set: Beyond Social Justice Allies” by Toby Jenkins (2009), in which she explo…
Action for Girls: A Conversation about Girl-led Advocacy at the United Nations
We do not speak often about what it means to support girl leaders as movement allies, nor do we detail what it looks like when girls partner with adults as political equals. In this article, I endeavor to address such absences by presenting an intergenerational exchange about the possibilities for girl-led advocacy at the United Nations. Drawing on solicited reflections from members of the Working Group on Girls, I structure conversation among ni…
Gender, Feminism, and Media (8 works) · Girl (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works)