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Girlhood

Preface

Introduction: Girlhood: Surveying The Terrain

Yasmin Jiwani, Candis Steenbergen, Claudia Mitchell

Chapter One: Aboriginal Girls In Canada: Living Histories Of Dislocation, Exploitation And Strength

Pamela J. Downe

Chapter Two: Survivor Stories, Surviving Narratives: Autobiography, Memory And Trauma Across Generations

Hourig Attarian, Hermig Yogurtian

Chapter Three: Les Filles Francophones Au Pluriel: Opening Up Girlhood Studies To Francophones

Rachel Gouin, Fathiya Wais

Chapter Four: Violence In The Lives Of Girls In Canada: Creating Spaces Of Understanding And Change

Yasmin Hussein, Helene Berman, Romy Poletti, Rian Lougheed-Smith,
Azmina Ladha, Ashley Ward, Barb MacQuarrie

Chapter Five: Racialized Violence And Girls And Young Women Of Colour

Yasmin Jiwani

Chapter Six: Locality, Participatory Action Research, And Racialized Girls' Struggles For Citizenship

Jo-Anne Lee

Chapter Seven: POWER Camp National/Filles d'Action: Working With/(In)tention

Tatiana Fraser, Sarah Mangle

Chapter Eight: Sugar And Spice And Something More Than Nice? Queer Girls And Transformations Of Social Exclusion

Marnina Gonick

Chapter Nine: Talking (Behind Your) Back: Young Women And Resistance

Rebecca Raby

Chapter Ten: "I'm Going To Crush You Like A Bug": Understanding Girls' Agency And Empowerment

Dawn H. Currie, Deirdre M. Kelly

Chapter Eleven: "Did You See What She Was Wearing?" The Power And Politics Of Schoolgirl Style

Shauna Pomerantz

Chapter Twelve: From The Curse To The Rag: Online gURLs Rewrite The Menstruation Narrative

Michele Polak

Chapter Thirteen: Pretty In Panties: Moving Beyond The Innocent Child -- Paradigm In Reading Preteen Modeling Websites

Sophie Wertheimer

Chapter Fourteen: I Am (A) Canadien(ne): Canadian Girls And Television Culture

Michele Byers

Coda

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