Girls, texts, culturesClare Bradford and Mavis Reimer, editors. 

 - Waterloo, Ontario :  Wilfrid Laurier University Press,  (c)2015. 
 - 1 online resource (viii, 331 pages :  illustrations) 
 - Studies in childhood and family in Canada .
<br/><br/> "The chapters in this book traverse disciplinary fields, sampling a wide range of approaches and theoretical perspectives. Most of these essays were workshopped at the "Girls, Texts, Cultures" symposium at the University of Winnipeg in 2010. This symposium was designed to generate and sustain dialogues between two groups of scholars: those focusing on texts for and about girls, and those who investigate contemporary girlhoods."--Introduction. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Girls, texts, cultures: cross-disciplinary dialogues /  From girlhood, girls, to girls' studies: the power of the text /  On secrets, lies, and fiction: girls learning the art of survival /  Disgusting subjects: consumer-class distinction and the affective regulation of girl desire /  Still centre stage? : reframing girls' culture in new generation fictions of performance /  Warrior girl and the searching tribe: indigenous girls' everyday negotiations of racialization under neocolonialism /  Girls' texts, visual culture, and shifting boundaries of knowledge in social justice research: the politics of making the invisible visible /  "Doing their bit": the Great War and transnationalism in girls' fiction /  Bollywood as a role model: dating and negotiating romance /  Movable morals: eighteenth and nineteenth-century flap books and paper doll books for girls as interactive "conduct books" /  Wild Australian girls? The mythology of colonial femininity in British print culture, 1885-1926 /  Dynamic (con)texts: close readings of girl' video gameplay /  Reading smart girls: post-nerds in post-feminist popular culture /  Clare Bradford and Mavis Reimer --  Dawn H. Currie --  Kerry Mallan --  Elizabeth Bullen --  Pamela Knights --  Sandrina de Finney and Johanne Saraceno --  Claudia Mitchell --  Kristine Moruzi --  Kabita Chakraborty --  Jacqueline Reid-Walsh --  Michelle J. Smith --  Stephanie Fisher, Jennifer Jenson, and Suzanne de Castell --  Shauna Pomerantz and Rebecca Raby. 
<br/><br/> "This book focuses on girls and girlhoods, texts for and about girls, and the cultural contexts that shape girls' experience. It brings together scholars from girls' studies and children's literature, fields that have traditionally conducted their research separately, and the collaboration showcases the breadth and complexity of girl-related studies. Contributors from disciplines such as sociology, literature, education, and gender studies combine these disciplinary approaches in novel ways with insights from international studies, postcolonial studies, game studies, and other fields. Several of the authors engage in activist and policy-development work around girls who experience poverty and marginalization. Each essay is concerned in one way or another with the politics of girlhood as they manifest in national and cultural contexts, in the everyday practices of girls, and in textual ideologies and agendas. In contemporary Western societies girls and girlhood function to some degree as markers of cultural reproduction and change. The essays in this book proceed from the assumption that girls are active participants in the production of texts and cultural forms; they offer accounts of the diversity of girls' experience and complex significances of texts by, for, and about girls."--Publisher's description. 
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<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>2014908367X 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Girls--Congresses.<br/>Girls in literature--Congresses.<br/>Girls in popular culture--Congresses.<br/>Politics in literature--Congresses.<br/>Popular culture in literature--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HQ798  / .G575 2015