Witnessing girlhood : toward an intersectional tradition of life writing

Witnessing girlhood : toward an intersectional tradition of life writing /

"When over 150 women testified in 2018 to the sexual abuse inflicted on them by Dr. Larry Nassar when they were young competitive gymnasts, they exposed and transformed the conditions that shielded their violation, including the testimonial disadvantages that cluster at the site of gender, yout...

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Main Authors: Gilmore, Leigh, 1959- (Author), Marshall, Elizabeth, 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Girls > Social conditions.
Child witnesses.
Minority women > Biography.
Autobiographies > Women authors.
Biography as a literary form.
Biography.
Biographies as Topic.
biographies (literary works)
biography (general genre)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Children's Studies.
Autobiography > Women authors
Biography as a literary form
Child witnesses
Girls > Social conditions
Minority women
Life Writing.
child activist.
childhood.
comics.
feminist studies.
graphic narrative.
picture books.
sexual violence.
testimony.
trans childhood.
trauma.
witness literature.
Biography
Biographies
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Girls in crisis: feminist resistance in life writing by women of color
  • Gender pessimism and survivorstorytelling in the memoir boom: Girl, interrupted, Autobiography of a face, and Nanette
  • Visualizing sexual violence and feminist child witness: A child's life and other stories and Becoming unbecoming
  • Teaching dissent through picture books:girlhood activism and graphic life writing for the child
  • Epilogue: twenty-first-century formations: child witness, trans life writing, and futurity.

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