Method-ological Mapping of Girlhood Studies

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Halle Singh
Keyword(s):  
Visual Representations ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Methodological Rigor ◽  
Girlhood Studies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Journal

In this article, I report on a mapping project of the methods used in articles in Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal since its inception. By reviewing all articles published in this journal from June 2008 to December 2020, I investigate and visually map the methodological tools used in the production of knowledge with, for, and about girls and girlhood. Alongside visual representations of this data, I also seek to reinvigorate conversations about the importance of epistemological and methodological rigor in studies of girls and girlhood.

scholarly journals What can Girlhood Studies be?

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. v-vi
Author(s):  
Claudia Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Critical Dialogue ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Girlhood Studies ◽  
Girls Studies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Journal

This Special Issue of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal represents another milestone in the history of the journal, coming, as it does, out of the second international conference of the International Girls’ Studies Association (IGSA) that was hosted by Notre Dame University, South Bend, Indiana, in 2019. As the guest editors, Angeletta Gourdine, Mary Celeste Kearney, and Shauna Pomerantz highlight in their introduction, the conference itself and the Special Issue set in motion the type of dialogue and conversation that is crucial to challenging and changing the world of inequities and disparities experienced by girls. For a relatively new area of study that has roots in feminism and social change, critical dialogue about inclusion and exclusion and about ongoing reflexivity and questioning must surely be at the heart of girls studies. The guest editors capture this admirably when they replace the question “What is girlhood studies?” with the provocative and generative question, “What can girlhood studies be?” The articles and book reviews in this Special Issue tackle what girls studies could be in so many different ways, ranging from broadening and deepening notions of intersectionality and interdisciplinarity to ensuring a place for the article, “Where are all the Girls and Indigenous People at IGSA@ND?” co-authored by the girls who belong to the Young Indigenous Women’s Utopia group. Such an account offers a meta-analysis of the field of girlhood studies, but so did the call for the Special Issue as a whole. It is commendable that this team of co-editors assembled and curated a series of articles that reveal the very essence of the problematic that girlhood studies seeks to address.

scholarly journals After Boyology, Or, Whence and Whither Boyhood Studies?

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diederik F. Janssen
Keyword(s):  
Men's Studies ◽  
Men’S Studies ◽  
Girlhood Studies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Journal

I am most excited to be announcing the first issue of Boyhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. The journal continues Thymos: Journal of Boyhood Studies, seven volumes of which were published between 2007 and 2013 by The Men’s Studies Press. Boyhood Studies will complement Berghahn’s prize-winning title Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, published as of 2008.

scholarly journals Honoring the Legacy of Jackie Kirk

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Fatima Khan ◽  
Claudia Mitchell ◽  
Marni Sommer
Keyword(s):  
Global Education ◽  
Women Teachers ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Great Range ◽  
Education Community ◽  
Education In Emergencies ◽  
Girlhood Studies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Journal

This year marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Jackie Kirk, a co-founder of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and an incredibly effective member of the global education community who died at the hands of the Taliban in Afghanistan on 13 August 2008 while working on a project on girls’ education. As an activist and researcher Jackie had a great range of expertise, including that of dealing with education in emergencies, the challenges facing women teachers, and the menstruation-related needs of school-going girls, as well as a grasp of the importance of visual images in understanding the realm of girls’ education. She brought to her work an attention to critical theoretical concepts alongside the practical; she always placed girls and women (especially women teachers) at the center of her explorations, her analyses, and her recommendations for policy and practice.

scholarly journals The Central Role of Theory in Qualitative Research

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 160940691879747 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher S. Collins ◽  
Carrie M. Stockton
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Appropriate Use ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Methodological Rigor ◽  
Methodological Approaches

The use of theory in science is an ongoing debate in the production of knowledge. Related to qualitative research methods, a variety of approaches have been set forth in the literature using the terms conceptual framework, theoretical framework, paradigm, and epistemology. While these approaches are helpful in their own context, we summarize and distill them in order to build upon the case that a balanced and centered use of the theoretical framework can bolster the qualitative approach. Our project builds on the arguments that epistemology and methodological rigor are essential by adding the notion that the influence of theory permeates almost every aspect of the study—even if the author does not recognize this influence. Compilers of methodological approaches have referred to the use of theory as analogous to a coat closet in which different items can be housed or a lens through which the literature and data in the study are viewed. In this article, we offer an evaluative quadrant for determining the appropriate use of theory in qualitative research and a diagram of the qualitative project that points to the central role of a theoretical framework. We also caution against the overreliance on theory in the event that it begins to limit the ability to see emergent findings in the data.

scholarly journals Editorial

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. v
Author(s):  
Claudia Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Girlhood Studies ◽  
International Event ◽  
Girls Studies ◽  
The University ◽  
Interdisciplinary Journal

This Special Issue of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal highlights a unique moment in history in two ways. First, it offers a collection of articles based on presentations made at the inaugural International Girls Studies Association (IGSA) conference hosted by the University of Norwich in April 2016. I thank the guest editors, Victoria Cann, Sarah Godfrey, and Helen Warner, who, in keeping alive the spirit of this amazing international event, have worked to produce a collection of articles and an interview with a filmmaker, all of which focus specifically on media as a critical axis of feminist research and activism, and the reviews editor, Marnina Gonick, for three excellent book reviews.

scholarly journals How to Be Unfaithful to Eurocentrism: A Spanglish Decolonial Critique to Knowledge Gentrification, Captivity and Storycide in Qualitative Research

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcela Polanco ◽  
Nathan Hanson ◽  
Camila Hernandez ◽  
Tirzah Le Feber ◽  
Sonia Medina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Knowing That ◽  
Academic Activism ◽  
Methodological Rigor

From a position of academic activism, we critique the longstanding dominance del production of knowledge that solely implicates fidelity to Eurocentric methodological technologies en qualitative research. Influenced by an Andean decolonial perspective, en Spanglish we problematize métodos of analysis as the dominant research practice, whereby las stories o relatos result en su appropriation, captivity and gentrification, first by researchers’ authorship and later by the publishing industry copyrights. We highlight the racializing and capitalist colonial/modern Eurocentric agenda del current market of knowledge production that displaces to la periphery all knowledge o relatos that do not subscribe to Euro-US American methodological parameters of what counts as knowledge. Therefore, we intend to heighten the readers’ audibility of another possibility of knowing that does not come from Eurocentric methodologically produced stories. At the forefront of our critique, and as an introduction to a decolonial option, we include our written, uttered, and painted stories, with the political intent of social transformation of coloniality. These seek to denounce power structures that have had incarnated effects on our lives y comunidades. We intend to invite researchers to serve as witnesses of our experiences rather than as critics of methodological rigor. We include final commentaries on a decolonial project to rethink the unquestionable fidelity and dependency toward the current research order of things of el center and la periphery. This is so as to render European technologies of knowledge as only one alternative among many other possible means of legitimate knowledge making in qualitative research. We discuss our hope for epistemological coexistence by which fair and reciprocal intercultural translations of knowledge making could take place, not in the name of equality, but difference.

scholarly journals Contemporary Girls Studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. vi-xxi
Author(s):  
Victoria Cann ◽  
Sarah Godfrey ◽  
Helen Warner
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
University Of Notre Dame ◽  
Girlhood Studies ◽  
Girls Studies ◽  
The University ◽  
Interdisciplinary Journal ◽  
Second International

As we move towards the second International Girls Studies Association Conference, to be held at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, in February 2019, we reflect on the work of the scholars and practitioners who presented at our first conference in April 2016, in Norwich, UK. In this special issue of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal we highlight the diversity of articles presented at the conference that provided us with a sense of the breadth of research in girls studies to date.

scholarly journals Editorial

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. v
Author(s):  
Claudia Mitchell
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Guest Editor ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Us ◽  
Girlhood Studies ◽  
The Right ◽  
Interdisciplinary Journal

I am very grateful to Barbara Brickman, the guest editor of this Special Issue of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for her term “dislodging girlhood” in the context of heteronormativity. Repeatedly in this issue Marnina Gonick’s pivotal question, “Are queer girls, girls?” (2006: 122) is cited. In the 13 years since she posed this question, we have not seen enough attempts made to address it. To mix my metaphors I see this issue of Girlhood Studies as helping to break the silence and simultaneously to open the floodgates to a ground-breaking collection of responses to Gonick’s question. Given the rise of the right in the US and in so many other countries, queer girls— trans, lesbian, gender non-conforming, non-binary to mention just a few possibilities—are at even greater risk than before. Girlhood Studies has always been concerned with social justice, so this special issue is a particularly important one in our history. It is also worth noting that many of the articles are written or co-authored by new scholars, signaling an encouraging trend in academic work that has social justice at its core. I thank Barbara Brickman, the authors, and the reviewers for their history-making contributions to the radical act of dislodging girlhood.

scholarly journals Welcome to this inaugural issue of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (GHS)

2008 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Mitchell ◽  
Jacqueline Reid-Walsh ◽  
Jackie Kirk
Keyword(s):  
Girlhood Studies ◽  
Interdisciplinary Journal
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