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.

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Information

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Year

2017

ISBN

9783319651187

Topic

Social Sciences

Subtopic

Ethnic Studies

Index

Social Sciences

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