Girlhood Studies

As the guest editors of this special issue of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal we invited comics and media scholars to discuss girlhood from the perspective of transnational and/or transmedia practices. These investigations avoid the trap Anita Harris warned us about in All about the Girl (2004) since they approach girlhood as a “constantly shifting” category, to use the words of Kristine Moruzi (2012: 191) rather than as a natural fixed state of being. Neither do they repeat the earlier tendency to conflate girlhood with womanhood (as can be seen, for instance, in Trina Robbins's From Girls to Grrlz (1999) and in Mike Madrid's The Supergirls (2009)). This special issue aligns with the work of scholars who study comics and girlhood with a focus on different publication formats (Gibson 2023), an international approach (Marshall 2018), and a transmedia interest (Hains 2012). The authors represented here consider girlhood as produced and negotiated; they recognize that girlhood implies a multiplicity of ages, social classes, ethnicities, and religions (as did, for instance, Marla Jaksch, Catherine Cymone Fourshey, and Relebohile Moletsane (2023) who edited Girlhood Studies 16:1: Reframing African Girlhood and Salsabel Almanssori and Muna Saleh whose Hijabi Girlhood in the Intersections: Violence, Resistance, Reclamation appeared later in 2023).

Nicoletta Mandolini

Lisa Maya Quaianni Manuzzato

Eva Van de Wiele

Girls in Comics

漫画中的女孩

Thomas Wellmann. 2017. Nika, Lotte, Mangold! Kassel: Rotopol. Thomas Wellmann. 2021. Nika, Lotte, Mangold! Weiter geht's. Kassel: Rotopol. Thomas Wellmann. 2023. Nika, Lotte, Mangold! Immer was los! Kassel: Rotopol.

Three Girls and a German Comic Book Series

三个女孩与一部德国漫画系列

Abstract I examine how Malaka Gharib's I Was Their American Dream and It Won't Always Be Like This frame, embody, and reimagine girlhood through a multicultural transnational lens. Born in California, Gharib grew up with Filipino and Egyptian heritage. Taking advantage of the formal properties of comics, her work situates her memories and experiences at the intersection of ethnicity, gender, and transnational encounters. I interrogate how these books visualize the connection between girlhood and mixed heritage through the artist-narrator's interactions with and observation of her Filipino mother and relatives in the United States and her father, stepmother, half-siblings, and neighbors in Egypt. I also examine how the multimodality of comics draws on tropes of girlhood to enable representation through the depiction and layering of different selves.

Lan Dong

Girlhood Reimagined

重塑少女时代

Abstract In this article, I explore the significance of transmedia to contemporary independent comics through analyzing aspects of production, engagement, and content in a small-scale fantasy-based franchise, The Tea Dragon Society , that celebrates diversity and interconnectedness. This transmedia franchise centers predominantly on girl characters and is aimed mainly at 8–12-year-olds. The depiction of girlhood in the storyworld can be seen to be linked to how the overall franchise works and I argue that both can be seen as being in flux and potentially boundless, yet also bounded. The franchise also intertwines girlhood and craft cultures in the storyworld, modeling activity with which the creator hopes the target audience will engage in the real world and reflecting the franchise itself as it, too, represents crafting.

Mel Gibson

Girlhood and Transmedia Practice in The Tea Dragon Society

《茶龙社会中的少女时代与跨媒体实践》

Joana Estrela, born in Penafiel in 1990, is a Portuguese illustrator and comics artist whose short but rich career path intersects significantly with the concerns of girlhood and the dynamics of the transnational creation and circulation of graphic narratives. In 2013, she self-published the zine, Os vestidos do Tiago , which was later re-published by the independent Luso-Brazilian publisher Sapata Press in 2018 and is now available in English with the title James's Dresses (2019). The zine is a short immersion into the fictional, though quite realistic, world of Tiago, a boy who loves wearing feminine dresses and is not scared of experimenting with them. Despite having a boy as protagonist, Os vestidos do Tiago can be looked at as Estrela's first attempt at representing girlhood, given the presence, in the publication, of crucial aesthetic references to the realm of childhood and femininity.

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Journal Impact	0.27
国际分区	SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY(Q3)

ISSN	1938-8209, 1938-8322
h-index	12

涉及主题	社会学心理学性别研究政治学法学哲学艺术生物发展心理学历史遗传学女孩计算机科学语言学物理文学类地理
出版信息	出版商: Berghahn Books Inc.，出版周期: ，期刊类型: journal，开源期刊: 否
基本数据	创刊年份: 2014，原创研究文献占比: 100.00%，自引率:25.00%， Gold OA占比: 0.00%

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Girls in Comics

Three Girls and a German Comic Book Series

Girlhood Reimagined

Girlhood and Transmedia Practice in The Tea Dragon Society

Girls Who Love Girls and Boys Who Love Girlish Dresses

Girls in Comics

Three Girls and a German Comic Book Series

Girlhood Reimagined

Girlhood and Transmedia Practice in The Tea Dragon Society

Girls Who Love Girls and Boys Who Love Girlish Dresses