{"id":889,"date":"2022-12-14T09:20:12","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T07:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/etnologi-folkloristik-norden\/?p=889"},"modified":"2022-12-08T09:21:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T07:21:31","slug":"a-girl-can-do-recognizing-and-representing-girlhood-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/etnologi-folkloristik-norden\/2022\/12\/14\/a-girl-can-do-recognizing-and-representing-girlhood-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"A Girl Can Do: Recognizing and Representing Girlhood (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A girl can do: recognizing and representing girlhood<\/em> is a new\u00a0 anthology about girlhood inspired by the \u201cRemembering American Girlhood\u201d panel held virtually during the National Council on Public History\u2019s annual meeting in 2020. Among other chapters it also contains a chapter from Swedish ethnologist \u00c5sa Ljungstr\u00f6m about a girl being brought up in Sm\u00e5land in 1890.<\/p>\n<p>The book<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vernonpress.com\/book\/1482\"> can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Summary from Vernon Press website:<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;How do scholars research and interpret marginalized populations, especially those that are seldom recognized as marginalized or whose sources are believed to be rare?<\/p>\n<p>Combining intersectional feminism and public history methodologies, \u2018A Girl Can Do: Recognizing and Representing Girlhood\u2019 reflects on how girlhood is found, researched, and interpreted in museums, archives, and historic sites. Defining \u201cgirl\u201d as \u201cself-identifying females under the age of 21,\u201d \u2018A Girl Can Do\u2019 lays the groundwork for understanding girlhood, its constructs, and its marginalization while providing faculty, students, and working professionals with ten case studies on researching and working with girlhood.<\/p>\n<p>Contributors include archaeologists, archivists, curators, educators, and historians who demonstrate how adding a girl studies lens fosters greater inclusivity and diversity in our work. Wh<span class=\"morecontent\">ether studying spatial techniques of marginalization in colonial Peru, the daybooks as records of girlhood in late-nineteenth century Sweden, or collaborating with self-identifying fangirls to produce a pop-up exhibition, the contributors demonstrate the variety of sources and methods that can be used to interpret this oft-overlooked population. Throughout, \u2018A Girl Can Do\u2019 petitions for collaborative and creative thinking in how we can reframe and reinterpret our sources \u2013 both traditional and overlooked \u2013 to shed new light on how girls have contributed to, and provide frames of reference for, human history and culture. &#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>A Girl Can Do: Recognizing and Representing Girlhood,<\/i>\u00a0(ed.) Tiffany R. Isselhardt, Girl Museum, Kentucky, 2022: Vernon Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A girl can do: recognizing and representing girlhood is a new\u00a0 anthology about girlhood inspired by the \u201cRemembering American Girlhood\u201d panel held virtually during the National Council on Public History\u2019s annual meeting in 2020. Among other chapters it also contains a chapter from Swedish ethnologist \u00c5sa Ljungstr\u00f6m about a girl being brought up in Sm\u00e5land &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/etnologi-folkloristik-norden\/2022\/12\/14\/a-girl-can-do-recognizing-and-representing-girlhood-2022\/\" class=\"more-link\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Girl Can Do: Recognizing and Representing Girlhood (2022)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[228,229],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antologier","category-publikationer","tag-girlhood","tag-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/etnologi-folkloristik-norden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/etnologi-folkloristik-norden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/etnologi-folkloristik-norden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/etnologi-folkloristik-norden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/etnologi-folkloristik-norden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/etnologi-folkloristik-norden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/etnologi-folkloristik-norden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/etnologi-folkloristik-norden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/etnologi-folkloristik-norden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs2.abo.fi\/etnologi-folkloristik-norden\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}