Nordic Girlhoods

New Perspectives and Outlooks

Bodil Formark, Heta Mulari, Myry Voipio, Bodil Formark, Heta Mulari, Myry Voipio

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9783319651170
• eBook ISBN:
  9783319651187
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

This edited collection is an interdisciplinary and dialogical endeavor focused on the field of Nordic Girlhood Studies. It investigates young femininity as well as the key themes and concepts of Girlhood Studies, including girl power, feminisms, femininity, gender equality, postfeminism and sexualities in the specific cultural, historical and political context of the Nordic region. The chapters of the book consist of thematic case studies, including memories of girl power in the Finnish context, gendered harassment experienced and explained by Finnish girls, troublesome girlhood within the Swedish context and girls' subjectification projects in Nordic welfare state. Further, the case studies are accompanied by dialogical Outlook-essays, where researchers either outside Nordic region or from adjacent research fields reflect on Nordic Girlhood Studies through comparisons and reflections form their vantage point. The book will be of scholarly interest to researchers and students working especially on the fields of Girlhood Studies, Youth Studies, Gender Studies, Sociology and Cultural Studies both within the Nordic region and outside.

Table of contents

• Foreword
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Editors and Contributors
• Chapter 1 Introduction: Nordic Girlhoods—New Perspectives and Outlooks
• Chapter 2 Negotiating Emancipation and Nationalism: Finnish Girls’ Literature from 1889–1901
• Chapter 3 Explosive Self-Confident Femininity: Experienced and Remembered Girl Energy
• Chapter 4 Outlook: What Do Finnish Fiction and Girl Energy Have to Do with Feminism and Gay Liberation in South Africa?
• Chapter 5 Grin and Bear It! Downplaying Sexual Harassment as Part of Nordic Girlhood
• Chapter 6 “Prevention, Prevention, Prevention. It’s All About Prevention and Diseases.” Migrant Girls’ Views on Sexuality Education
• Chapter 7 Outlook: Girlhood, Agency, and Embodied Space for Action
• Chapter 8 When the Problem of Incorrigible Girls Became a Problem of Psychopathy
• Chapter 9 Narrating Family: Talk About a Troublesome Girlhood in the Swedish Context
• Chapter 10 The Girl and the Feminist State? Subjectification Projects in the Nordic Welfare State
• Chapter 11 Outlook: Nordic Girlhoods from a Russian Perspective
• Chapter 12 Conclusion: A Conversation
• Index