Girls Take Action

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.

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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



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