African Feminist Girlhood Studies and Development

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.

• 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 Hamida’s 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.