Call for Manuscripts

 

Girls in the World:  A Global Anthology

Edited by Jennifer Hillman Helgren and Colleen A. Vasconcellos

 

Abstract Deadline:  February 28, 2006

 

We invite proposals for manuscripts to be included in a collection of essays on the history of girlhood in international and transnational contexts.  The purpose is to understand the centrality of girlhood in shaping women’s lives and to study through a comparative framework how age and gender, along with a multitude of other identities, mold and influence women’s experiences. 

                         

Essays will contribute to developing cross-national perspectives and methodologies in the history of gender, children, and youth.  Moreover, we feel that given current trends toward globalization, it is imperative that scholars address ordinary individuals’ relationships to war, migration, economic markets, and institutions.  Girlhood is defined broadly, and we welcome analysis of the category of girlhood itself.  Manuscripts examining girls’ experiences in Africa, Latin America, Australia, and Canada are especially welcome. 

 

While essays may cover a range of topics, regions, and time periods, we are interested in research that addresses one or more of the following questions:

                                               

• How have international developments, such as migrations, wars, globalization, labor, economic markets, and international diplomacy, influenced girls’ lives, cultures and/or identities?
• What have been girls’ roles in creating communities and shaping cultures internationally, nationally, and locally?
• To what extent have girls operated as global actors and agents? 
• What roles have girls played, both symbolically and actively, in global political arenas?
• When are girls’ cultures subcultures of dominant national cultures and when do they cross (and even challenge) national boundaries?
• How have girls’ cultures been constituted through their responses to cultural, institutional, and familial expectations? 
• How do girls’ educational, health, legal rights, material culture, and play vary across time and place?
• How do images of and for girls in literature, art, and photography vary across time and place?

 

Individual manuscript proposals should include:

*a 250-word abstract and title

*author contact information

*your curriculum vitae

 

Please note how your work will contribute to cross-national perspectives

The submission deadline is February 28, 2006.  Please email your proposals directly to Jennifer Helgren at jennifer.helgren@cgu.edu and Colleen Vasconcellos at colleen@mail.h-net.msu.edu.

 

Completed manuscripts will be due in the summer of 2006.  If you have any questions or comments, please contact either editor:

 

Dr. Helgren

E: jennifer.helgren@cgu.edu

P: (510) 521-8790

 

Dr. Vasconcellos

E. colleen@mail.h-net.msu.edu

P:  (678) 839-6032

 

Dr. Jennifer Hillman Helgren
Ph.D. Claremont, currently a lecturer in Women's Studies at San Francisco
State University and in History at California State University East Bay

Dr. Colleen A. Vasconcellos
Ph.D. Florida International University, currently a Visiting Assistant
Professor of History at the University of West Georgia

We are also both members of the Society for the History of Children and
Youth, and the volume will definitely be affiliated with this organization
as well.