The Routledge Companion to Girls' Studies

Sharon R. Mazzarella, PhD, is Professor of Communication Studies at James Madison University, United States. Her research takes a critical/cultural approach to interrogating mediated representations of youth, particularly girls and girlhoods. She is the author of Girls, Moral Panic, and the News Media: Troublesome Bodies (2020, Routledge).

Introduction PART ONE: What Can Girls’ Studies Be? 1. Girl Power and Its Afterlife: Neoliberalism and the Invention of Girlhood Studies 2. Girls’ Studies and the Humanities: Recognizing Human-as-Girl 3. For the Love of Black Girls: Building Black Girlhood Studies as a Lifejacket 4. Listen Up: Trans Girls, Trans Girlhoods, and Trans Girl Joy 5. Girlhood Studies: The First Fifteen Years 6. Reflecting on the Development of Girlhood Studies in Israel 7. Polaroid Possibilities: Immanent Girlhood and the Tangle of Temporality 8. Looking Forward: The Future of Girls’ Studies PART TWO: Who is the “Girl” in Girls’ Studies? 9. A Decolonial Approach to Leadership and Activism with Girls with Disabilities across Southern Spaces: Creating Spaces for Inclusion from Within 10. Girls’ Digital Citizenship Elsewhere 11. Kitab vs. Hijab: Muslim Girls Regenerating Politics in India 12. Funding Girls’ Activism: Cooptation, Feminism, and Institutional Change 13. Girls Fighting for the Planet: Climate Activism as Caring Intimate Counterpublics 14. “Girls Can’t Do This Alone”: Understanding Girls’ Agency During Adolescence in Nine Countries 15. Adolescent Girls’ Migration in the Global South: Moving into Adulthood 16. Girls In Deprived Areas – Place, Violence, and Femininity 17. Visibilizing Quinceañeras as Generational and Ethnic Bridge: Flashpoints of Latina Girlhoods PART THREE: Representing Girls and Girlhoods 18. Representing Queer Girlhoods in 2020s Australian Film and Television 19. Dare to Dream: Family, Ambition, and Girlhood in Post-Millennial South Asian Cinema 20. Reimagining Girlhood in Contemporary Malaysian Youth Literature 21. “What It Feels Like for a Girl”: Exploring Girlhood in a Jamaican Context through Olive Senior’s "Do Angels Wear Brassieres?" 22. “Work, Sleep, Make Money”: Girlboss Memes, Feminine Precarities, and the Endurance of the “Problematic” Girl 23. The Internet of (Feminist) Girls: Re-reading Gendered Internet Histories 24. (Re)visiting a Girl Revolution: Riot Grrrl Zines, Liminality, and Anarcha-Feminism 25. The Erasure of Counter-Stereotypical Female Characters from Disney’s Transmedia Toys: Exploring Toy, Media, and Audience Tensions 26. Celebrity Girls’ Studies: Interdisciplinary Scholarship on Fame, Girlhoods, and Identity PART FOUR: Bodies, Sex, and Sexualities 27. Black Girls’ Adultification in South America as a Contemporary Case of Crimes Against Humanity 28. The Sexual Health of Adolescents in Uganda: When Restricting Sexual and Reproductive Health Programs is All About Girls 29. Crush-Tastic: When Girls Encounter Sexually Explicit Materials 30. Talking with Girls about Porn 31. Junior Fiction Magazines as a Means of Sex Education: Examining Yoshida Toshi’s The Castle of Venus 32. "God is Always Watching You, Capeesh?": Satirizing Religion and Empowering Girls' Sexuality