YOUNG MEN IN UNCERTAIN TIMES

“The strengths of this book are multiple and quite obvious. The book gathers together an inter-disciplinary group of accomplished scholars around a clearly focused and crucially important topic. Careful editing has ensured a generally high quality of writing. There are no poor chapters in this volume. The global scope of the book, its reference to recent field research, and intelligent discussion of wider literature makes it stand out.”  •  Craig Jeffry, St. John’s College, Oxford

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DETERRITOR IALIZED YOUTH

Sahrawi and Afghan Refugees at the Margins of the Middle East

"... a valuable, innovative contribution to the anthropological study of refugee youth, as it focuses on refugee populations on which relatively little research has been done so far... [and offers] a sound methodological approach and rich qualitative data. "  •  Cordula Strocka, Free University Berlin

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GROWING UP IN CENTRAL AUSTRALIA

New Anthropological Studies of Aboriginal C hildhood and Adolescence

“This excellent volume presents… a rich and timely collection of essays on contemporary Aboriginal childhood and youth, each chapter being grounded on extensive ethnographic experiences and studies…It is an original contribution to a growing field…and offers ‘food for thought’ and a range of perspectives which allow the reader to better appreciate Aboriginal lives, challenges and points of view.”  •  Sylvie Poirier, Université Laval, Québec

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CHILDREN, FAMIL IES, AND STATES

Time Policies of Childcare, Preschool, and Primary Education in Europe

"This is a very strong collection of essays by some of the top scholars in the field of European social policy, including both historians and social scientists. The individual chapters are richly detailed, well written, and informative, documenting a wide range of thinking and practices about children, families, and states over more than two centuries.”  •  Sonya Michel, University of Maryland

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YOUTH GANGS A ND STREET CHILDREN

Culture, Nurture and Masculinity in Ethiopia

“Richly illustrated by quotes and life histories, this is an excellent ethnography of the ways in which young people develop resilience through continual reworking of webs of care, nurturance and interaction amongst themselves and with their families… The text is well written, comprehensive and based on a rich source of empirical material that is well analyzed and interpreted.”  •  Tatek Abebe, Norwegian Centre for Child Research, Norwegian University of Sciences and Technology, Trondheim

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LOST TO THE STATE

Family Discontinuity, Social Orphanhood and Residential Care in the Russian Far East

“This study is extremely well done; a fluently written, scholarly account and analysis that provides a necessary addition to the “post-Soviet” literature, which has few such sharp analyses of the family, not least because the author takes on relevant debates and histories that both add considerable depth to this discussion and widen the applicability of the primary focus.”  •  Catherine Alexander, Goldsmiths College, London

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YEARS OF CONFLICT

Adolescence, Political Violence and Displacement

“The authors’ passionate engagement with the issues of children affected by war makes the book an interesting read and a significant contribution into the lives of the young in conflict and displacement settings.”  •  Journal of International Migration and Integration

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CHILDREN AND YOUTH ON THE FRONT LINE

Ethnography, Armed Conflict and Displacement

"This deeply disturbing but brilliant collection will be a challenge to a burgeoning literature on children in war situations ... to those who wish to make a black and white distinction between children and adults." • Children, Youth and Environments

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COMING OF AGE IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY

"Impatient with popular and academic hand-wringing over 'prolonged adolescence' (or young people's unwillingness to grow up), Blatterer in this overdue sociological treatise on the changing nature of adulthood in Western society counters that such judgments unfairly draw on obsolete norms of adulthood… Blatterer's writing is eloquent…his arguments are well considered, important, and thought-provoking." •  Choice

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GIRL MAKING

A Cross-Cultural Ethnography on the Processes of Growing Up Female

“…this is a powerful book with much to offer readers interested in girls’ studies. It records and analyzes girls in the act of recording and analyzing themselves, a reflective practice that needs to continue in other media as well if we are ever to understand more about both identity construction and the technical tools that enable or accelerate it.”  •  Feminist Collections

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THE KINNING OF FOREIGNERS

Transnational Adoption in a Global Perspective

"Howell's fascinating work on transnational adoption provides real insight into its experiential, cultural, psychological and legal complexities worldwide and has important implications for our theories of kinship and personhood. Howell writes as an anthropologist, illuminating the topic by virtue of the comparative perspective she brings to it. The book deserves to be read not only by anthropologists interested in kinship, but by everyone who wants to understand children and to do what is best for them, including policy-makers, developmental and child psychologists, educators and social workers."  •  Christina Toren, Director, Centre for Child-Focused Anthropological Research (C-FAR), Brunel University

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Girlhood Studies

An Interdisciplinary Journal

WINNER OF THE 2009 AAP/PSP PROSE AWARD FOR BEST NEW JOURNAL IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES!

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.Volume 4/2011, 2 issues p.a.
ISSN: 1938-8209 (Print) * ISSN: 1938-8322 (Online)

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