{"id":21755,"date":"2015-06-24T02:13:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T02:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.univie.ac.at\/Geschichte\/salon21\/?p=21755"},"modified":"2022-05-19T16:05:37","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T16:05:37","slug":"cfp-ethical-practice-and-the-study-of-girlhood-publication-girlhood-studies-an-interdisciplinary-journal-dl-01-09-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/?p=21755","title":{"rendered":"CfP: Ethical Practice and the Study of Girlhood (Publication: Girlhood Studies. An Interdisciplinary Journal); DL: 01.09.2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"jnl_cover_ghs\"<\/a>Special Issue of Girlhood Studies. An Interdisciplinary Journal<\/strong> (Web)<\/a>, Guest Editor April R. Mandrona<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please send expressions of interest and abstracts by 1 September 2015.<\/p>\n

For this themed issue of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, \u201cEthical Practice and the Study of Girlhood,\u201d we invite submissions from transnational and transdisciplinary perspectives that investigate how the constructs of girlhood and ethics might inform each other. We are interested in work that explores, disrupts, or otherwise complicates the notion of girlhood studies as an ethical space. As of yet, the relationship between girlhood studies and the field of ethics remains under-articulated and under-researched. While there is a range of research that takes up questions of feminist ethics, childhood ethics, and to a lesser extent feminist girl-centred interventions, ethics in girlhood studies is a new nexus of inquiry. Persistent forms of marginalization and ongoing concerns about the physical and mental wellbeing of girls around the world necessitate the development of girl-responsive ethical frameworks. Ethical considerations may also allow probing into the taken-for-granted aspects of what it means to be a girl. The aim of this themed issue is to produce new imaginings and understandings of ethical being, rights, otherness, power, agency, and responsibility in relation to the study of girlhoods.<\/p>\n

We ask: What does an ethics of girlhood studies look like? Are there unique features of a girlhood studies ethics? Feminist, postcolonial, and childhood studies have troubled adult-centric views on girls\u2019 and young peoples\u2019 visibility, citizenship, and capabilities. How might ethics in girlhood studies be connected to such examinations of girlhood? How may new understandings of the relationship between ethics and girlhood complicate these existing fields of scholarship? Research with girls, for girls, and by girls aims to draw attention to the absence of girls\u2019 voices in initiatives that affect their lives. Given that this is the starting point of Girlhood Studies, what would that mean for an ethics of research in such studies? Research with girls necessarily invokes a range of legal and moral obligations. How might the changing socio-political forms of girls\u2019 lived experiences and the representation of these inform the meaning of constructs such as \u201cin the best interest of the (girl)-child\u201d and \u201cdoing the most good and least harm\u201d? This questioning extends to research into practice, policy, and theory.<\/p>\n

Articles may approach ethics and girlhood studies from a number of perspectives that reflect shifting understandings. We position ethics as a multifaceted entity that encompasses systems of socialization, morality, norms, prescriptive rules of conduct, and personal transformative practices and discourses. We seek submissions that draw on the perspectives of girls themselves and subjective, embodied experiences of girlhood. A range of research approaches is encouraged including memory work, ethnographic, artistic, poetic, narrative and other forms of qualitative or quantitative inquiry.<\/p>\n

Contributions to this themed issue may address the following topics:<\/p>\n