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Beginning with a critique of the resiliency literature, the authors suggest that girls' struggles at adolescence are, fundamentally, a response to loss of power and can best be understood within the relational and sociopolitical contexts... more
Picture singer Britney Spears, if you can. Imagine her at different moments in her career, starting post-Mickey Mouse Club, impossibly fresh-faced, sweet, innocent. Later, singing "no longer a girl, not yet a woman." Finally, swaggering... more
Minors of both sexs ages 10 to 15 are most at risk of sexual assault Objective: To determine the prevalence of sexual assault by rape among children aged 10 to 15 years and describe their management at the gynecology and obstetrics clinic... more
این پژوهش به بررسی عوامل خانوادگی مؤثر بر فرار دختران از خانه پرداخته است. جامعه آماری این پژوهش، دختران فراری و عادی شهر همدان در سال 1390، و تعداد نمونه 60 نفر متشکل از 30 دختر فراری و 30 دختر غیرفراری بوده که با روش نمونه¬گیری در دسترس... more
Nigeria is a great country with great people but to sustain the development of the nation, a particular breed which enhances the development of any nation has been left to the menace of early marriage. The girl child is the future of... more
Drawing on data from an ethnography of the school-based Student Police Cadet (SPC) program in Kerala, India, this paper examines the ways in which female high school student-cadets mobilized SPC's uniform in their performance of... more
Background: Adolescence is an essential period in every human’s life. The lack of knowledge on puberty issues may adversely impact an adolescent’s future mental health and self-efficacy. The present study aimed to determine the effect of... more
Feminist scholars have begun to unpack the ways in which neoliberalism is underpinned by particular gendered affective investments: drives for perfection (Angela McRobbie 2015), confidence (Rosalind Gill and Shani Orgad 2015), and the... more
Drawing primarily on discourses and events from the period surrounding World War I, this essay examines the methods deployed by Camp Fire Girls and Girls Scouts to recruit the daughters of immigrants and, upon joining, acculturate these... more
Learning theories emphasize the importance of intrinsic and extrinsic motivators in curricula, and games are a promising way to provide both while constructing the game and presenting or sharing it in public or with a community. New... more
Cet article explore le travail prolifique et controversé de l'actrice Lena Dunham et s'intéresse à trois aspects en particulier : la visibilité relativement récente de corps féminins considérés comme « dégoûtants » dans la culture... more
Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations in Girls' Media Culture, Vol 2 (Peter Lang, 2018)
training girl filmmakers; gender politics of film schools
training girl filmmakers; gender politics of film schools
This article considers the implications of the presence of Juno's pregnant girl body in the film Juno (2007). The narrative follows the high school student Juno's pregnancy, her decision to have the baby adopted, and its birth as she... more
Many of the responses to teen sexting are ineffective and unjust: authorities sometimes blame the victims of nonconsensual sexting, use harsh child pornography laws against minors, and give teenagers the advice to simply abstain. While... more
Following a screening of Julia Leigh's Sleeping Beauty (2011) at the Sydney Film Festival in 2011, I was surprised by the antagonism in questioners' responses to the main character Lucy which appeared to reify the ‘girl’ within... more
Bratz dolls, popular among pre-adolescent girls, have been the subject of widespread criticism. Many scholars, activists, educators, and parents have argued that the scantily clad fashion dolls contribute to the sexualization of girls... more
The purpose of the study is to identify the level of stress among adolescents regarding body image and the strategies that they use to cope with it. 282 adolescents in 10th and 11th grade answered three questionnaires: the Adolescent... more
Enquête qualitative commanditée par l'UFOLEP/ La ligue de l'enseignement avec le laboratoire TEC, STAPS Paris Descartes. En s’appuyant sur une méthodologie qualitative (i.e., entretiens semi-directifs et focus groupes), l’objectif de... more
This paper based on a critical analysis of official reports and related literature, focuses on girls’ education in Kenya within the context of a larger development paradigm that centres on the importance of their... more
This paper explores the concept of Gothic in relation to the contemporary Japanese Gothic & Lolita movement (G&L). Although it discusses G&L as a whole, it places a specific focus on the Gosurori (Gosu-loli, Gothloli, or Gothic Lolita) by... more
In cities and towns across Canada, Indigenous girls are being hunted, harassed, and criminalized by local law enforcement agents and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. These normalized outbreaks of state control, often punctuated by the... more
Adolescence is a period of life determinants. How could adolescence called like that? That's because in adolescence, they will find their identity. Identity is not found easily, it all requires a process, needs to be guidance, direction... more
In this chapter, we seek to stimulate new considerations of girls, girlhood and the girling of SDP (Chawansky and Hayhurst, 2015) in order to move research and writing beyond the important mapping exercises and overview essays that... more
Social media, particularly social networking sites, provide expansive windows opened to see through the life of its users. Exposure to others' lives on social networking sites may consider increased feelings of personal relative... more
This article adds to the literature on smart girlhood by exploring the topic through Karen Barad’s theory of post-human performativity. We focus on the transcripts of two participants from a larger study on girls and academic success in... more
The purpose of this article is to educate women on the rights available to them based on these different instruments, we will also look at the provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as well as other legislations... more
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While legal authorities have taken a punitive approach to addressing individual sexting incidents, prevention-based messages directed at teens often encourage girls to avoid creating sexting images altogether. Chapter 2 examines the... more
While not giving clear answers, HBO's GIRLS highlights problems that Third Wave Feminism addresses as well as problems within the feminist debate itself.
Fundamentación: La homeóstasis postural es imprescindible para la prevención de lesiones, la eficacia y rendimiento deportivo, y la salud general del individuo. Por ello, un elemento determinante es el trabajo de la higiene y educación... more
From its inception, the subcultural movement known as Gothic and Lolita has displayed an exchange of ideas between Japan and Euro-American cultures. More recently, however, the subculture has shifted, not only in regard to traditional... more
The practice of child marriages in Nigeria has never been pleasant. Over the years we have seen children been married out as bride when they should be in school. In late modernity, one will presume that child marriage has been outdated... more
The declaration of girls' rights was written for the International Girl Day, 2020, in order to strengthen girls sense rights and voice.
You can find it here in English, Hebrew and Arabic, with a short suggestion of a lesson plan in Hebrew.
You can find it here in English, Hebrew and Arabic, with a short suggestion of a lesson plan in Hebrew.