GIRLHOOD AND THE POLITICS OF PLACE GIRLHOOD AND THE POLITICS OF PLACE Edited by Claudia Mitchell and Carrie Rentschler berghahn N E W Y O R K • O X F O R D www.berghahnbooks.com Published by Berghahn Books www.berghahnbooks.com © 2016 Claudia Mitchell and Carrie Rentschler All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission of the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Girlhood and the politics of place / edited by Claudia Mitchell and  Carrie Rentschler. pages cm Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-85745-602-1 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-78533-017-9 (paperback) — ISBN 978-0-85745-647-2 (ebook) 1. Girls. 2. Girls—Social conditions. I. Mitchell, Claudia, editor. II. Rentschler, Carrie A., 1971– editor. HQ798.G52555 2016 305.23082—dc23 2015026967 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library This work is published subject to a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial No Derivatives 4.0 International license. The terms of the licence can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. For permission to publish commercial versions please contact Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-0-85745-602-1 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-78533-017-9 (paperback) ISBN 978-0-85745-647-2 (ebook) ISBN 978-0-85745-647-2 (open access ebook) Dedication In memory of the fourteen women who died in the Polytechnique Massacre, Montreal, 6 December 1989 (cid:2) Contents List of Illustrations x Acknowledgements xii Introduction The Signifi cance of Place in Girlhood Studies 1 Carrie Rentschler and Claudia Mitchell SECTION 1. GIRLS IN LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE Chapter 1 Under the Shadow of Empire: Indigenous Girls’ Presencing as Decolonizing Force 19 Sandrina de Finney Chapter 2 Voices in Longitude and Latitude: Girlhood at the Intersection of Art and Ethnography 38 Marnina Gonick Chapter 3 Nowhere to Go, Nothing to Do: Place, Desire, and Country Girlhood 51 Catherine Driscoll Chapter 4 Landscapes of Academic Success: Smart Girls and School Culture 68 Rebecca Raby and Shauna Pomerantz SECTION 2. SITUATED KNOWLEDGE, SELF-REFLEXIVE PRACTICE Chapter 5 Charting Girlhood Studies 87 Claudia Mitchell Chapter 6 Teen Feminist Killjoys? Mapping Girls’ Aff ective Encounters with Femininity, Sexuality, and Feminism at School 104 Jessica Ringrose and Emma Renold viii • Contents Chapter 7 Placing the Girlhood Scholar into the Politics of Change: A Refl exive Account 122 Caroline Caron Chapter 8 Returns and Departures Through Girlhood: Memory-Work as an Approach to the Politics of Place in Mother-Daughter Narratives 137 Teresa Strong-Wilson Chapter 9 Girls Action Network: Refl ecting on Systems Change through the Politics of Place 154 Tatiana Fraser, Nisha Sajnani, Alyssa Louw, and Stephanie Austin SECTION 3. GIRLS AND MEDIA SPACES Chapter 10 “What This Picture of a Girl Means to Me”: The Place of Girlhood Images in the Art History University Classroom 175 Loren Lerner Chapter 11 Modding as Making: Religious Flap Books Created by Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Girls 195 Jacqueline Reid-Walsh Chapter 12 Where Are the Irish Girls? Girlhood, Irishness, and LT Meade 212 Susan Cahill Chapter 13 “God Is a DJ”: Girls, Music, Performance, and Negotiating Space 228 Geraldine Bloustien Chapter 14 Creating and Regulating Identity in Online Spaces: Girlhood, Social Networking, and Avatars 244 Connie Morrison SECTION 4. STUDYING THE SPACES OF GIRLS’ ACTIVISM Chapter 15 Making Activism Accessible: Exploring Girls’ Blogs as Sites of Contemporary Feminist Activism 261 Jessalynn Keller Chapter 16 “Ain’t No Justice … It’s Just Us”: Girls Organizing against Sexual and Carceral Violence 279 Lena Palacios