Office of the Gender and Woman's Studies Librarian

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Examine concepts of girlhood across time.

L. M. Montgomery and Gender

Editor

E. Holly Pike and Laura M. Robinson

Description

Divided into the themes of domestic space, femininities and masculinities, humor, intertexts, and time.

Year

2021

As Told by Herself: Women's Childhood Autobiography, 1845–1969

Author

Lorna Martens

Description

Covers texts primarily in English and French and includes an extensive bibliography of autobiographies.

Year

2022

Speculative Film and Moving Images by or about Black Women and Girls: Watch It!

Author

Karima K. Jeffrey-Legette

Description

Includes some discussion of literature and video; has chapters on horror and Halle Berry; and discusses works including Altered Carbon, Cloud Atlas, The Darkest Minds, Fast Color, Lovecraft Country, Watchmen, and A Wrinkle in Time.

Year

2023

Narrative Journeys of Young Black Women with Eating Disorders: A Hidden Community among Us

Author

Stephanie A. Hawthorne

Description

Uses the experiences of three young women as case studies for implementing culturally specific interventions.

Year

2020

Out of Reach: The Ideal Girl in American Girls' Serial Literature

Author

Kate Harper

Description

Covers 20th-century series featuring Cherry Ames, Vicki Barr, Dorothy Dale, Nancy Drew, the Baby-Sitters Club, and Sweet Valley High.

Year

2020

Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing: Decolonizing Spaces and Identities

Author

Andrea Fernández-García

Description

Covers Almost a Woman and When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago, Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera by Norma E. Cantú, Hoyt Street: An Autobiography by Mary Helen Ponce, and Return to Sender by Julia Alvarez.

Year

2020

Gidget: Origins of a Teen Girl Transmedia Franchise

Author

Pamela Robertson Wojcik

Description

Covers the 1950s to the 1980s.

Year

2021

The Camp Fire Girls: Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910–1980

Author

Jennifer Helgren

Description

Focuses on the inclusive membership of the Camp Fire Girls and its construction of modern girlhood.

Year

2022

Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare's World: Rethinking Female Adolescence

Author

Caroline Bicks

Description

Examines depictions of female puberty.

Year

2021

The Rise of American Girls' Literature

Author

Ashley N. Reese

Description

Covers 1850 to 1940.

Year

2021