Difficult Dialogues about Twenty-First-Century Girls.

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword: Difficult Dialogues -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Donna Marie Johnson -- Alice E. Ginsberg -- Introduction: Girls' Studies What's New? -- Chapter Outlines -- Part I: New Ways of Knowing About Girls -- Chapter 1 Disrupting Invisibility: Education Scholarship Meeting the Needs of African American Elementary and Secondary School Girls -- Equal Educational Opportunity for All -- Black School Girls and Racial Disparities in School Discipline -- Exclusionary Discipline, the Application of Zero Tolerance Policies and Black School Girls -- Black School Girls and the School to Prison Pipeline -- African American School Girls: Seen and Unseen -- Why Has There Been So Little Research About the School Lives of African American Girls? -- The White House Council on Women and Girls: An Integration Approach to Gender Equality and Public Policy -- My Brother's Keeper vs White House Initiatives Supporting Black School Girls -- African American Girls as Outlaws -- Black Girls, Black Education and Girls' Studies Scholarship -- Black Girlhood: A Second Tier of Invisibility in Research -- African American School Girls Need Allies -- Black Girls Studies within the Field of Girls Studies -- Difficult Dialogue Questions and Activities -- References -- Chapter 2 Girl Uninterrupted: Using Interactive Voice Diaries as a Girls' Studies Research Method -- The Method -- Girls' Voices -- Delilah's Cassette -- In the Worlds of Girls -- The Interviewer's "Probes" -- Analysis -- Conclusion -- Difficult Dialogue Questions and Activities -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 "It Means that I Am Knowledge": GirlPAR as an Emergent Methodology -- The Imani Nailah Project -- Youth Participatory Action Research -- Where the Girls Are: GirlPAR as an Emergent Methodology -- Eroding Discursive and Structural Barriers.

Merging Scholarship with Relational Activism -- Intersubjectivity as Knowledge Production -- Learning with Girls: Ways of Achieving GirlPAR -- Authorship -- Confidentiality -- Chosen Inclusion -- Knowledge Production -- Research Dissemination -- Conclusion: GirlPAR in Action -- Difficult Dialogue Questions and Activities -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4 "Talking Out of School": Crossing and Extending Borders with Collaborative Research in Girls' Studies, Women's Studies, and Teacher Education -- Introduction to the VOGUS Project -- Context: Between Two Worlds -- Methods -- Learning/Process -- Conclusion: Projected Implications -- Difficult Dialogue Questions and Activities -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Stop Saving the Girl? Pedagogical Considerations for Transforming Girls' Studies -- Difficult Dialogues: Teaching Transnational Girls' Studies -- Girls and "Development": Interrogating the Construct of the Vulnerable Girl -- The Politics of Activism -- Girls in Conflict Zones -- Transnational Activism -- Research with Girls -- Difficult Dialogue Questions and Activities -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6 Beyond "Us" Versus "Them": Transnationalizing Girlhood Studies -- Inside or Outside? Placing My Work in a Girls' Studies Frame -- Girlhood Memories: The Truth and the Telling -- Feminist Organizing in the Caribbean and the Girl Guides -- Girlhood and Guiding as an Imperial Practice -- Guiding as a Form of Colonial and Class Discipline -- Subverting the Imperial: Questioning the UK Connection -- Guiding as Subversive to Gender Roles -- Guiding as Building a Generational Female Community -- Conclusion: Guiding as Transnational Practice? -- Difficult Dialogue Questions and Activities -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Girl Power Redefined.

Chapter 7 High School Classrooms as Contested Sites of Future Feminist Power: Explicating Marginality Beyond Disadvantage into Power -- Research Questions and Methodology -- Question One: Questioning and Dialoguing with the Data -- Question Two: Waboom! Wabam! and Proto-Feminists on the Cusp -- Question Three: Hooters, Postcards, and Weenies! -- Terminology and Adolescent Mythologies -- Closing with Potential -- Difficult Dialogue Questions and Activities -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8 From Cyborgs to Cybergrrrls: Redefining "Girl Power" through Digital Literacy -- Difficult Dialogue Questions and Activities -- References -- Chapter 9 "Off Balance": Talking About Girls' Health in the Era of the "Obesity Epidemic" -- Introduction -- Girls, Bodies, and Self-Esteem -- "The O-Words": Exclusive Health Rhetoric and Its Impact on Girls -- Watching the Numbers, Watching Girls' Bodies -- Let's Move Into Action -- Difficult Dialogue Questions and Activities -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 10 "Babies Havin' Babies": Examining Visual Representations of Teenage Pregnancy -- Birthing the "Epidemic" of "Our" Girls and "Perfect" Girls -- Viewing (White) Innocence -- Seeing Brown and Black Blight -- The Political Ramifications of Images -- Conclusion -- Difficult Dialogue Questions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11 "At-Risk" for Greatness: Girls' Studies Programs and the Art of Growing Up -- Girls Studies, Risk, and Rites of Passage -- Visibility and Praxis: Art, Culture, and Collective Identity -- The Power of Mask-Making, Poetry, and Dance -- Defining Their Bliss: Program Outcomes for Girls -- Difficult Dialogue Questions and Activities -- Note -- References -- Chapter 12 Standing on Shoulders Strong: A Conversation with Leading Girls Studies Scholars -- Difficult Dialogue Questions and Activities -- List of Contributors -- Index.

Introduces new conceptual frameworks for girls' studies.

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