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Showing 1 to 20 of 88 for “"girlhood"”.
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Organizing sensibilities of a radical Black girlhood
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Magical Girls: Contemporary Girlhood in Children’s Fantasy
… looks at the construction of contemporary girlhood through a material feminist reading of selected children’s fantasy texts about magical girls. My central argument is that these texts deploy tropes of magical power and transformation to prompt considerations of girlhood as constructed by …
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Cruising, Crossings & Care: Sounds of Collective Black Girlhood
… this project, I argue sounds of collective Black girlhood, created in SOLHOT, reveal the importance of collective music-making practices in Black girlhood studies and girl programming. Cruising, Crossings and care, as sounds of collective Black girlhood created in SOLHOT, resound us towards 1) …
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Revisiting girlhood : defining a postmodern/popular feminist culture /
It has bee1l said that feminism is dead, but in fact feminism is alive in popular cultural fonlls that offer pleasure, style, fUll and advice, as well as political messages that are internalized alld continuously enacted in the lives of North American female youth. This thesis discusses popular …
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Trailer Park Royalty: Southern Child Beauty Pageants, Girlhood and Power
… and will be situated in the culture of girlhood. Examination of what is depicted in popular culture through videos, documentaries, and television shows will also occur. I suggest that the rural beauty pageant culture does work to create girlhood identity and a way in which the …
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Transgressngroove: an exploration of black girlhood, the body, and education
… culture, the Black female body, and Black girlhood. This study foregrounds Black female bodies; mine particularly, to illumine the schooling and educational experiences of Blackgirls. It names silence, stereotyping, and shame as trends of Black girlhood and documents how they play out in …
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SMARTGIRLS.TV: DISCOURSES OF ACHIEVING GIRLHOOD IN SCHOOLS, ON SCREEN AND ONLINE
… as instances of a wider discourse of achieving girlhood. The design thus recognizes contemporary conditions of media convergence and also enables a consideration of the importance of context in producing objects of knowledge. I argue that common tropes circulate between popular, policy and local …
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Brown Sugar and Spice: Exploring Black Girlhood at Elite, White Schools
… and potentially negative definitions of Black girlhood while making their own meaning of being a young, Black woman. I take an intracategorical approach to understanding the development and experience of this intersectional identity in a predominantly white, elite independent school. This study …
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"""Jazzy Belle Retell/tale"": toward a framework of sonic black girlhood"
… hip hop group, OutKast as a practice of black girlhood music making. Moreover, this thesis will investigate the use of this music making as a tool for decolonizing research on and about Black girls’ lived experiences and their artistic visions. Ultimately, I seek to develop a language for a …
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SOLHOT: black girlhood celebration of love, literacy, hip-hop and motherhood
… what is the relationship between love and Black girlhood? What is/are the impetus, motivation(s), and commitments of Black girls to a girl-centered space? What does it mean to be a part of a space for girls that foreground love? To assess Black girls in a context of love practices, I employ …
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Telling Girlhood: Girls' Studies, Reparative Trauma And 20Th Century U.S. Popular Culture
… texts concern themselves with representations of girlhood and the question of which type of girl is allowed to be depicted and why, or what girls are learning about gender roles, feminism, and body image from media. My intervention in the field of girls' studies is the argument that the same …
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Handsome Devil: an exploration of contemporary South African girlhood/s through playwriting
The play is set in an all-girls academy in contemporary South Africa.
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(Re)embodying girlhood : collective autobiography and identity performance in Rude Mechanicals' Grrl action
… adolescence and expand the very definition of girlhood. As a former Program Director and Instructor for Grrl Action, I build on what Dwight Conquergood might call my role as ethnographic "co-performer" to examine not only live theatre events, but also the material circumstances that create …
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Black girlhood celebration: The political courage of Black girls and women in everyday experiences
… hip-hop feminism, and literature on Black girlhood, this thesis shows how Black girls in Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths (SOLHOT), a community of girls and women in Illinois, make sense of the images they receive through hip-hop. Specifically, I explore the ways in which the girls, who …
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Black girl gaze: A visual (re)membering of black girlhood as an act of resistance
… document the knowledge about the realities of girlhood Black girls collectively (re)member and construct using photography and text. In SOLHOT, Black girls share their life stories, using a camera as a tool for interrogating notions of power, voice, agency and representation as articulated …
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Present day prophets: defining Black girlhood spirituality in saving our lives hear our truths (SOLHOT)
Present Day Prophets: Defining Black Girlhood Spirituality in Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths (SOLHOT) and Beyond is based on nine years of participant observation in the collective, Saving Our Lives Hear Our Truths (SOLHOT). SOLHOT is a praxis that centers and celebrates Black girlhood through …
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Escucha Nuestras Voces/Luister Naar Onze Stemmen: Afro-Caribbean Girlhood in the Dutch West Indies
… Maarten narrate, navigate and negotiate their girlhood experiences. As a Black woman from Sint Maarten, this project is important due to the lack of sociological scholarship surrounding Black girls in the Dutch West Indies. This project utilized a qualitative approach that involved interview …
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Visualizing Girlhood: Visibility and the Power of the Black Girl Gaze to Understand Adolescent Girls’ Identity
… to the field of teacher education and Black Girlhood Studies.</p>
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