This project draws on African feminisms to propose major questions about the agency of girls. The central research questions of the book are: what is the history of girlhood on the ground in various regions of Africa? In African contexts, how are humanistic approaches helping social scientists and development practitioners to unravel some of the seemingly unsolvable challenges? And, finally, in what ways might development projects defined and shaped by adolescent African girls lead us to better understandings of challenges they face and beneficial as well as realistic solutions and critical responses to poverty, development, and inequality? The authors expand the existing conversation by drawing upon epistemological foundations emerging from groundbreaking work in the history of gender in Africa. The data and analyses presented in this work contribute to the fields of African politics, girlhood studies, African feminisms, African histories, and development studies.
Part I. Defining Girlhoods and Girlhood Studies.
Chapter 1 Ke Ngoanana
Oa Mosotho: A Decolonial Feminist Analysis Of Girlhoods In Lesotho.
Chapter
2 Conceptualizing Girlhoods And Girlhood Studies In Africa.
Chapter 3
Producing Girlhood In Africa: Colonialism, Neoliberalism, International
Development And The Girl-In-Crisis.- Part II. Historicizing Girlhoods and
Girlhood Studies.
Chapter 4 Hamidas Radical Refusal: Enslaved Girlhood And
Concubinage In Colonial Zanzibar.
Chapter 5 Historicizicng The Present:
Sexuality Surveillance Discourses Of Young Motherhood In Uganda.- Part III.
Case Studies of Girlhoods and Development Studies.
Chapter 6 Children Voices
On Systemic Cultural Practices That Reinforce Violence, Injustice, And
Inequality Against Girls.
Chapter 7 Leveraging Survey Research To Include
Tanzanian Girls Perspectives In Policy Making: A Vignette Methodology.-
Chapter 8 Unraveling Barriers: Exploring Factors Limiting Girls' Academic
Attainment In Northern Ghana - A Case Study Of Sissala West.
Chapter 9
Understanding Sexual Harassment And Girlhood In Institutions Of Higher
Learning: The Case Of Uganda.
Chapter 10 Abortion As A Muted Reality:
Narratives Of Adolescent Girls Agentive Experiences With Pregnancy
Termination.- Part IV. Truths Of Girlhoods Through Fictions and Augmented
Virtual Realities.
Chapter 11 But I Am Only Fourteen: A Tale Of Turns
Sharing Of The Dilemmas Of Girlhood In Contemporary African Fictions
Reflecting Truths.
Chapter 12 Visual Violence And Fatal Beauty And The
Oppositional Gaze: Black African Girlhood In Mossane And Atlantique.
Chapter
13 Digital Engagements And African Girlhood: How Nigerian Teenage Girls Use
Tiktok For Self And Identity Expression.- Part V. Endings For Girlhood
Beginnings.
Chapter 14 Questions Towards New Beginnings: Is There A
Difference Between African And Girl?.
Chapter 15 Love At First Sight.
Catherine Cymone Fourshey is Professor of History and International Relations and Director of The Griot Institute at Bucknell University, USA.
Marla L. Jaksch is the Barbara Meyers Pelson '59 Endowed Chair in Faculty-Student Engagement and Professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The College of New Jersey, USA. Relebohile Moletsane is Professor and the JL Dube Chair in Rural Education in the School of Education at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and South African Research Chair (SARChI) in Gender-based Violence and Femicide at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.
