Naughtiest Girls, Go Girls, and Glitterbombs
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12975354 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lucinda Mcknight (0000-0003-0997-6790, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Girlhood Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1938-8209 • E-ISSN: 1938-8322 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/ghs.2017.100303 |
| OpenAlex | W2773665269 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 10 |
In this article I consider the white British and Australian schoolgirl through a notionally comparative study of Enid Blyton’s The Naughtiest Girl in the School (1940–1952) series and the contemporary Go Girl (2005–2012) series, texts spanning my lived experience as girl, mother, and teacher. Through incendiary fragments of memory and media, I, as researcher and writer, seek the girl addressed by these texts and consider the struggles, denials, and ambivalences that produce and are produced by reading the schoolgirl. This girl resists historical determinism, coalescing as contemporaneous past, present, and future as the reader performs her own girlhood through reading and writing. This creative analytical article notices the visual and physical manifestations of texts, as well as their linguistic discourses. Through this work, we perceive postfeminist entanglement in the ongoing re-configuration of the schoolgirl, with implications for policy and practice in education and for cultural and girlhood studies
Developmental psychology · Girl · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Reading (process · Sociology · White (mutation · Gender Roles and Identity Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Psychology · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |