Dear Colleague,
 
We are pleased to announce that the latest issue of Girlhood Studies has been published by Berghahn Journals. This special volume includes contributions from academics, activists, and service providers who engage with the intersectional domains of disability, gender, and humanitarian praxis. The focus of this special issue is on building more enduring conceptual alliances between disability studies and girlhood studies in favor of transdisciplinary analyses.

Please visit the Berghahn website for more information about the journal:
www.berghahnjournals.com/girlhood-studies


Current Issue
Volume 9(1), Spring 2016
 
Editorial
Girls with Disabilities: A Rights Perspectives
Claudia Mitchell
http://bit.ly/1Nb77Bj

Introduction
Disability, Girlhood, and Vulnerability in Transnational Contexts
Nirmala Erevelles and Xuan Thuy Nguyen
http://bit.ly/1W0d85x

Articles
Disabled Girlhood and Flexible Exceptionalism in HBO’s Miss You Can Do It
Anastasia Todd
http://bit.ly/23z6N6Z

Ablenationalism in American Girlhood
Sami Schalk
http://bit.ly/1MwuPrR

Girls with Disabilities in the Global South: Rethinking the Politics of Engagement
Xuan Thuy Nguyen
http://bit.ly/1Xy7JBy

Reframing Disability through Graphic Novels for Girls: Alternative Bodies in Cece Bell’s El Deafo
Wendy Smith-D’Arezzo and Janine Holc
http://bit.ly/1Xy7IO6

Freak Temporality: Female Adolescence in the Novels of Carson McCullers
Alison Sperling
http://bit.ly/20FpLDW

Visual Essay
Creating Dialogue on Inclusion in Vietnam: Girls with Disabilities Exhibit their Work
Naydene de Lange, Lan Anh Nguyen, and Thu Trang Nghiem
http://bit.ly/1W0dGIs

Report
Adolescent Girls with Disabilities in Humanitarian Settings: “I Am Not ‘Worthless’—I Am a Girl with a Lot to Share and Offer”
Emma Pearce, Kathryn Paik, and Omar Robles
http://bit.ly/1ScYHIU

Reviews
Girlhood Studies and Disability in India: Epistemological Shifts
Nirmala Erevelles
http://bit.ly/1Wur5t5

From a Bendy Straw to a Twirly Straw: Growing up Disabled, Transnationally
Shilpaa Anand
http://bit.ly/1qKiExt



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