Table of Contents:
  • Girls, texts, cultures: cross-disciplinary dialogues / Clare Bradford and Mavis Reimer
  • From girlhood, girls, to girls' studies: the power of the text / Dawn H. Currie
  • On secrets, lies, and fiction: girls learning the art of survival / Kerry Mallan
  • Disgusting subjects: consumer-class distinction and the affective regulation of girl desire / Elizabeth Bullen
  • Still centre stage? : reframing girls' culture in new generation fictions of performance / Pamela Knights
  • Warrior girl and the searching tribe: indigenous girls' everyday negotiations of racialization under neocolonialism / Sandrina de Finney and Johanne Saraceno
  • Girls' texts, visual culture, and shifting boundaries of knowledge in social justice research: the politics of making the invisible visible / Claudia Mitchell
  • "Doing their bit": the Great War and transnationalism in girls' fiction / Kristine Moruzi
  • Bollywood as a role model: dating and negotiating romance / Kabita Chakraborty
  • Movable morals: eighteenth and nineteenth-century flap books and paper doll books for girls as interactive "conduct books" / Jacqueline Reid-Walsh
  • Wild Australian girls? The mythology of colonial femininity in British print culture, 1885-1926 / Michelle J. Smith
  • Dynamic (con)texts: close readings of girl' video gameplay / Stephanie Fisher, Jennifer Jenson, and Suzanne de Castell
  • Reading smart girls: post-nerds in post-feminist popular culture / Shauna Pomerantz and Rebecca Raby.