Transnationalism at Work in Girlhood Studies

In this, the first issue, an unthemed one, of Girlhood Studies of the new quarter-century, there is a beautiful lining up of what must surely be regarded as evidence of transnationalism in that although each author is from a different country—Canada, Ghana, Indonesia, Japan, Israel, the United States, and Australia—the concerns are relevant internationally: the privileging of white heterosexual girls; the imposition of cultural taboos and rules on menstruating girls; the frequent failure to understand the differing realities of girls; the subversive potential of girls to undermine sexist privilege; the need for empowered girls still having to navigate disciplinary practices; and the ways in which changing social conditions govern the treatment of even pre-school-age girls. Appropriately enough, we end this issue with a review of one of the books, Girls in Global Development: Figurations of Gendered Power (2023), in the Berghahn series, Transnational Girlhoods. This range, which might, on the one hand, seem accidental, suggests, on the other, the rich body of feminist work that is inspired by girls’ successes as well as by daunting needs that result from inequalities

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