Girls in Global Development

Heather Switzer is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. Her work has been published in Girlhood Studies, Feminist Theory, Feminist Formations, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, and Gender Issues. She is co-editor of the Transnational Girlhoods book series published by Berghahn Books.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Girls in Development: Discovering Girls, Producing Girl EffectsHeather Switzer, Karishma Desai, and Emily BentChapter 1. Human Capital Theory and Girlhoods in DevelopmentSydney CalkinChapter 2. Girls as New Frontiers: Corporatized Development and the Politics of Investing in GirlsKathryn MoellerChapter 3. Teaching Aspirant Feminism to Girls in Development: A View from Urban UgandaErin MooreChapter 4. “Where the Change Starts”: NGO Activists and the Political Economy of Girls’ Education in MalawiRachel SilverChapter 5. Gendered Extractions: Women Teachers Implementing Girl-Focused Policy in MalawiAlyssa MorleyChapter 6. “Give girls a chance to participate in developing the country”: Cambodian Schoolgirls (Re)negotiate the Status of GirlsTracy RogersChapter 7. Whose Voice? Whose Freedom?: Beyoncé and Girl-Centered Development CampaignsVirginia CaputoChapter 8. When Futurity Speaks: Indigenous Girlhood and “Developing” the “Developed” WorldAnuppiriya Sriskandarajah

“This collection is a well-imagined, important, incisive contribution to the fields of girlhood studies, development studies, and gender studies that deftly exposes the contradictions, complications, and limits of the “Girls in Development” paradigm and the ways it shapes the current landscape of development and thus the lives of girls around the world.” • Jessica Taft, University of California Santa Cruz