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{"title":"“No, it was a girl. A woman”: A Study of Indigenous Resilience and Girlhood in Katherena Vermette’s The Break","authors":"Celiese Lypka","doi":"10.1080/00497878.2023.2232070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2023.2232070","url":null,"abstract":"Métis author Katherena Vermette’s The Break (2016) portrays with striking clarity the reality and lived experiences of Indigenous girls within the settler colonial landscape of Canada. The novel centers around a horrifying violent act of sexual assault against Emily Traverse, a thirteen-year-old Métis girl, and the police investigation working to solve the crime. As the novel attempts to reckon with many acts of violence that occur in the wake of this attack, the narrative weaves together the multigenerational voices of Emily’s kinship relations as they attempt to care for her and process what has happened. This framing allows the novel’s female characters, who are of various ages, to reflect on the persistent modes of intergenerational trauma and systemic violence they individually and collectively experience. As these stories come together, readers learn how the women and girls have either grown through or endured their experienced trauma. Strikingly, given the focalizing event of the novel, Emily’s perspective is given little space within the narrative, and the book jacket doesn’t mention her name or character. Still, her perspective and that of two other girls, Phoenix (Métis) and Zegwan (Anishinaabe), are pivotal to the overall structure of The Break . These young","PeriodicalId":45212,"journal":{"name":"WOMENS STUDIES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL","volume":"52 1","pages":"674 - 693"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44692616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Telling New Stories: Disability and Determination in Contemporary Young Adult Fairy Tales","authors":"J. Coste","doi":"10.1080/00497878.2023.2235626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2023.2235626","url":null,"abstract":"Brigid Kemmerer’s 2019 young adult novel A Curse So Dark and Lonely, a Beauty and the Beast retelling, offers a familiar scene: a beautiful young girl is trapped in a well-appointed room in a lavish, enchanted castle. Someone dreadful has imprisoned her here, and she is eager to escape. But Kemmerer’s novel provides agency to its heroine soon after the Beast has turned the lock. Instead of waiting for her captor to allow her out of the room, Kemmerer’s heroine peers out the window, spies a trellis, and leaps for it. She lands gracelessly, the old trellis splintering under her weight as her body judders down the tall wall of the castle. On the ground, after the trellis has broken the worst of her descent, she thinks, “Oh, this was a spectacularly bad idea” (Kemmerer 55). Pushing past the pain of her fall, she hurries to the stable on the castle’s grounds and escapes (for a little while, anyway) on a horse appropriately named “Ironwill.” This heroine, Harper, embodies the kind of persistence and determination readers have come to expect from contemporary YA protagonists. She is bold, headstrong, and unwilling to bend to someone else’s plans – especially if those plans have anything to do with her oppression. At first glance, Harper seems like a typical “strong female character,” bringing a Katnisslevel will to survive to this fairy tale narrative. But she departs from the YA heroine mold in an important way: she has cerebral palsy, and her disability plays an integral part in her determination. Moreover, Harper offers a new kind of fairy tale heroine, one who not only pushes against the social structures that oppress her, but who also resists and redefines cultural norms. The history of the fairy tale retelling is replete with girls resisting and persisting. While literary fairy tales – those well-known stories by the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Charles Perrault, for example – often feature passive princesses who patiently uphold the status quo, twentieth and twenty-first-century fairy tale revisions have increasingly offered heroines who flout social norms. Contemporary fairy tale heroines","PeriodicalId":45212,"journal":{"name":"WOMENS STUDIES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL","volume":"52 1","pages":"644 - 659"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44464885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“What about Justice?”: Persisting Girls in Young Adult Rape Fiction","authors":"Roxanne Harde","doi":"10.1080/00497878.2023.2232068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2023.2232068","url":null,"abstract":"Three recent Young Adult novels feature girls who persist in seeking justice and insist their rapists be punished. Each protagonist epitomizes persistence, continuing obstinately in a course of action despite extreme difficulty. Their methods, however, vary from perjury to planting illegal drugs to murder. In Kiersi Burkhart’s Honor Code, Sam, a near victim of her boarding school’s most popular boy, appropriates the story of a girl he raped. In her singleminded quest to see him successfully prosecuted, Sam both silences Gracie and negatively affects her healing. In Nina Foxx’s And You’d Better Not Tell, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award, a rapist’s young victims, Rumer and Ranisha, frame him with the same illegal drug he used to assault them. Their route to justice, however, ensures he won’t victimize other girls. In Hannah Capin’s Foul Is Fair, Jade is gang raped at a party and, with the assistance of her friends, crafts Macbeth-inspired methods to avenge herself with the murders of the perpetrators and their accomplices. A substantial proportion of the large catalog of recently published YA novels about acquaintance rape follows standard “rape scripts.” These books sometimes reify rape culture even as they condemn it. In line with current statistics, their victims are reluctant to report the crime and their perpetrators are rarely punished by the law or their educational institutions held accountable. Unlike the victims in most of these texts, the survivors in Honor Code, And You’d Better Not Tell, and Foul Is Fair actually succeed in punishing the rapists. This article works to understand justice brought about through deception and subterfuge by persisting girls. I consider these quests to punish a rapist by any means possible as challenges to commonly held rape myths and as fictional means to subvert or resist rape culture. In “The Subject and Power,” Michel Foucault focuses on sites of resistance as the way to bring to light power relations, their positions, their points of application, and the methods used. He begins with “immediate struggles,” such as opposition to the power of men over women, in which “people criticize instances of power which are the","PeriodicalId":45212,"journal":{"name":"WOMENS STUDIES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL","volume":"68 43","pages":"660 - 673"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41246352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Monstrous Others: Black Girl Refusal in Afrofuturist Young Adult Literature","authors":"S. Toliver, Kamala D. Harris, Mike Pence","doi":"10.1080/00497878.2023.2230509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2023.2230509","url":null,"abstract":"Following a debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former Vice President Mike Pence, then President Donald Trump appeared on Fox News to give his reaction statement: “This monster that was onstage with Mike Pence, who destroyed her last night, by the way, but this monster . . . I thought that wasn’t even a contest last night. She was terrible. I don’t think you could get worse . . . And totally unlikable” (Summers, par. 2). Although the use of these descriptors are negative in their own right, Summers also noted that Trump “previously reserved the term ‘monster’ for terrorists, murder[ers] and major natural disasters” (par. 1). In this way, Trump attempted to dehumanize and diminish Vice President Harris, a strategy historically based in the continuous global stereotype of Black women and girls as monstrous Other. According to Muhammad and McArthur, the ‘“double jeopardy’ of being both Black and female in society has continued to create and reinforce a U.S. culture satiated with derogatory representations of Black women and girls” (134). These representations include stereotypes like the Mammy, a desexualized woman so loyal to whiteness that she cares more for her masters than she does for herself and her family; the Sapphire, a loud, rude, malicious, overbearing, and angry woman; and the Jezebel, a hypersexual, innately promiscuous, and sexually deviant woman (Harris 4–6; West 288). Each of these stereotypes positions Black women and girls as Other, a being who is “a threat and a danger” (de Beauvior 88) to those in dominant society. Although the above stereotypes are often associated with Black women, they also influence the lives of Black girls. In fact, numerous scholars have argued that society’s perception of Black girls is distorted by clichéd depictions that create harmful restrictions on and blatant misrepresentations of Black girls’ identities (Muhammad and Haddix 301; Sealey-Ruiz 291; Toliver, “Breaking Binaries” 6). In a survey study of 325 adults from various racial and ethnic backgrounds, Epstein and colleagues found that, compared to white girls of the same age, Black girls are inaccurately described as knowing more about adult topics and sex and therefore need less nurturing,","PeriodicalId":45212,"journal":{"name":"WOMENS STUDIES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL","volume":"52 1","pages":"708 - 723"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45150314","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Performativity of Class and Gender in Bobbie Ann Mason’s “Shiloh”","authors":"A. Alshehri","doi":"10.1080/00497878.2023.2230604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2023.2230604","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45212,"journal":{"name":"WOMENS STUDIES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47531160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Punk Persistence: Subversive Change and Continued Resistance in Celia C. Pérez’s The First Rule of Punk","authors":"Cristina Rhodes","doi":"10.1080/00497878.2023.2228953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2023.2228953","url":null,"abstract":"In a now-viral video, the half Asian/half Latinx band the Linda Lindas took the Internet by storm with their anthem “Racist, Sexist Boy” (“The Linda Lindas”). Anastasia Tsioulcas of NPR called the song “something of a 2021 anthem,” cementing the Linda Lindas’ place as a rising star in the punk world .The Internet’s fascination with the Linda Lindas didn’t just stem from the exigency of their hit song, the band is also composed of tweens and teens – and diverse teens at that. The band’s members are “Half Asian and half Latinx,” according to their website, and range in ages from eleven to seventeen (“About”). Though punk has always been a genre filled with young people, the extreme youth of this particular band stands out – and, while it’s not explicitly stated, their racial and ethnic identities add to audiences’ fascination and exoticization of the band. In a Vogue magazine article about their music and activism, journalist Christian Allaire notes, “Despite being young teens, their music has a clear, strong voice and punchy lyrics that prove they’re wise beyond their years.” Many reactions to the Linda Lindas follow this same pattern: shock at the band members’ ages and at the sophistication of their activist messages. The Linda Lindas’ work is at odds with adults’ views of children as apolitical subjects who need protection. Somehow, many adults perceive that young people are the ones benefiting from activism, not necessarily the ones instigating activism, even as punk is a genre rooted in youth resistance. I begin with this nod to the Linda Lindas and their punk aesthetic to foreground the similar activist entanglements in Celia C. Pérez’s middle grade novel The First Rule of Punk (2017). The Linda Lindas sing about their disenfranchisement as young, minoritized punks. So, too, does Malú, Pérez’s protagonist, sing against norms that seek to shape her to fit within dominant social scripts. The novel follows Malú, a 12 year-old punk, who","PeriodicalId":45212,"journal":{"name":"WOMENS STUDIES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL","volume":"52 1","pages":"694 - 707"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42624349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"She Persisted in Cross-stitch","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/00497878.2023.2241929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2023.2241929","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45212,"journal":{"name":"WOMENS STUDIES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL","volume":"52 1","pages":"475a - 475a"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46546870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Girls Who Persist: Girls, Literature for Girls, and the Politics of Persistence","authors":"Miranda A. Green-Barteet, Amanda K. Allen","doi":"10.1080/00497878.2023.2220133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2023.2220133","url":null,"abstract":"In February 2017, Senator Elizabeth Warren was admonished, silenced, and removed from the floor of the US Senate during then-Senator Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearings for the position of Attorney General. During the hearings, Warren attempted to read a letter written by Coretta Scott King in 1986, in which King protested Sessions’ nomination for a federal judgeship, to demonstrate that Sessions’ judicial record had long been questioned. Senator Mitch McConnell, in his then position as Senate Majority Leader, cut Warren’s speech short, citing a rule that forbids Senators from “demeaning” one another (Victor). McConnell stated, “Senator Warren was giving a lengthy speech. She had appeared to violate the rule. She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted” (“Senate” S855). While McConnell clearly intended to silence Warren, his admonishment had the reverse effect. As Washington Post Correspondent Amy B. Wang notes, women “bristled at the sentiment – essentially, to sit down and stop talking – and noted it was hardly unfamiliar to them.” Indeed, McConnell’s final sentence – “Nevertheless, she persisted” – immediately became a feminist rallying cry. Together with its accompanying hashtags “#ShePersisted” and “#LetLizSpeak,” that three word sentence – “Nevertheless, she persisted” – rapidly spread around the world, described by Daniel Victor of the New York Times “as a hash-tag ready motto for women at the ready to break barriers.” As Megan Garber observed in The Atlantic, the sentence “was applied to images of not just Warren and King, but also of Harriet Tubman, Malala Yousafzai, Beyoncé, and Emmeline Pankhurst, and Gabby Giffords, and Michelle Obama, and Hillary Clinton, and even Princess Leia. It accompanied tags that celebrated #TheResistance.” Although he intended to reprimand Warren for violating an obscure Senate rule, McConnell inadvertently","PeriodicalId":45212,"journal":{"name":"WOMENS STUDIES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL","volume":"52 1","pages":"475 - 489"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41468248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nevertheless, They Persist: The Iconicity and Radical Politics of Malala Yousafzai","authors":"Suhaila Meera","doi":"10.1080/00497878.2023.2221855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2023.2221855","url":null,"abstract":"A young girl dressed in a prettily embroidered kameez with a white dupatta draped over her head stands at a pulpit in Swat Valley, Pakistan. A poster with images of Leon Trotsky and Vladimir Lenin hangs from the front of the podium; the International Marxist Tendency’s logo marks the poster’s upper right corner. A line from Karl Marx’s The Civil War in France runs along the bottom: “The Political instrument (state) of their (workers) enslavement cannot serve as the political instrument of their emancipation” (Marx). The photo (“Malala Yousufzai [sic] speaking at the Marxist school in SWAT”) was taken between July 13 and 15, 2012 (Woods). Three months later, on October 9, the girl in the photo was shot by a Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) gunman. Two years later, when she became the youngest person to receive a Nobel Peace Prize, Tariq Ali wrote to Al Jazeera: “The first Trot sympathizer to get the Nobel Peace Prize. Did they know?” (Waraich). Malala Yousafzai, though largely celebrated in the United States and her current home of the United Kingdom, remains a controversial figure. She and her father, Ziauddin Yousafzai, have been condemned by progressives and conservatives alike as Western puppets. Scholars of gender and the Middle East have also relegated Malala to a symbol, analyzing her rise to global fame as emblematic of the neoliberal-imperial impulse among Western nations to ‘save’ Muslim women by waging war in their home countries. Put simply: Malala’s construction as a neoliberal darling by and for the ‘the West’ has been firmly established. But as Rosie Walters correctly points out, depicting Malala “as a young woman whose story has been","PeriodicalId":45212,"journal":{"name":"WOMENS STUDIES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL","volume":"52 1","pages":"586 - 600"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41608783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Girls Save the World: Activism, Persistence, and Solidarity in Hemispheric Latin(x) American Youth Literature","authors":"Regan Postma-Montaño","doi":"10.1080/00497878.2023.2228441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2023.2228441","url":null,"abstract":"In her book, Medicine Stories, Aurora Levins Morales prompts us to locate young people at the center of discussions of social justice movements and activism: “we need to listen to children more than we talk to them. We must back the initiative of children themselves, secure resources and share skills, respect their right and ability to lead themselves, and learn to let them lead us” (108). As one of the original essayists for the groundbreaking work on intersectionality and women of color, This Bridge Called My Back, Levins Morales’s directive also points to the way that we, in fact, must let girls lead us as we elucidate the contours shaping resistance literature for and about young people on a hemispheric stage. Girls persist by finding avenues of resistance to the oppressions that impact them. Examining these forms of persistence is a means of listening to girls and letting them lead us. The hemispheric scope of this article on literature for young readers from across the Americas allows me to destabilize national silos and, by this intervention, to foreground connections that exist between diasporic Latinx girls in the US and girls in Latin America. In this way, I highlight the entangled, interconnected nature of our Americas and the possibilities girls offer for resistance. For this article, I examine three examples of youth literature from across the Americas. All the Stars Denied by Guadalupe García McCall (US, 2018), Olivia, el bosque y las estrellas (Olivia, the Forest and the Stars) by Nuria Santiago and illustrated by Ángel Campos (Mexico, 2014), and Al sur de la","PeriodicalId":45212,"journal":{"name":"WOMENS STUDIES-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL","volume":"52 1","pages":"545 - 565"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43357052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}