The Lives of Girls and Young Women in the Time of COVID-19

IF 0.4 Q3 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY

Girlhood Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal Pub Date : 2020-12-01 DOI:10.3167/ghs.2020.130301

C. Mitchell, Ann Smith

引用次数: 2

Abstract

As with Zika, Ebola, HIV and AIDS, and other pandemics in recent history, girls and young women are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 socially and emotionally if not medically. Some observers have referred to the current crisis as a tale of two pandemics in reference to both the obvious health issues and the pervasive gender inequalities that have become exacerbated, and others have referred to it as “the shadow pandemic” (UN Women 2020: n.p.) in highlighting the negative impact that physical distancing and social isolation are having on already vulnerable girls and young women experiencing sex- and gender-based violence. All over the world girls and young women are facing increasing levels of precariousness as a direct result of the health measures being taken to curb the global transmission of COVID-19. The increasing lack of privacy in the home furthers the practice of cultural forms of patriarchy that lead to violence.

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2019冠状病毒病时期女孩和年轻妇女的生活

与寨卡病毒、埃博拉病毒、艾滋病毒和艾滋病以及近代史上的其他流行病一样，女孩和年轻女性在社会和情感上尤其容易受到COVID-19的影响，如果不是在医学上的话。一些观察人士将当前的危机称为两大流行病的故事，既涉及明显的健康问题，也涉及已加剧的普遍性别不平等现象，而另一些观察人士则将其称为“阴影流行病”(联合国妇女署2020年:n.p.)，以强调身体距离和社会隔离对已经脆弱的遭受性暴力和基于性别的暴力的女孩和年轻妇女产生的负面影响。在世界各地，为遏制COVID-19全球传播而采取的卫生措施直接导致女孩和年轻妇女面临越来越严重的不稳定状况。家庭中越来越缺乏隐私，这进一步推动了导致暴力的父权制文化形式的实践。

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Girlhood Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY-

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1.10

自引率

12.50%

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期刊介绍： Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a peer-reviewed journal providing a forum for the critical discussion of girlhood from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and for the dissemination of current research and reflections on girls'' lives to a broad, cross-disciplinary audience of scholars, researchers, practitioners in the fields of education, social service and health care and policy makers. International and interdisciplinary in scope, it is committed to feminist, anti-discrimination, anti-oppression approaches and solicits manuscripts from a variety of disciplines. The mission of the journal is to bring together contributions from and initiate dialogue among perspectives ranging from medical and legal practice, ethnographic inquiry, philosophical reflection, historical investigations, literary, cultural and media research to curriculum design and policy-making. Topics addressed within the journal include girls and schooling, girls and feminism, girls and sexuality, girlhood in the context of Boyhood Studies, girls and new media and popular culture, representation of girls in different media, histories of girlhood, girls and development.