Girls Take Action

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments



Introduction: Collective Urgency: Networks of Girls and Young Women Taking Action

Catherine Vanner



Part I: By Girls and Young Women



Chapter 1. Chalk Back: The Girl and Youth-Led Street Art Movement to #StopStreetHarassment

Natasha Harris-Harb and Sophie Sandberg



Chapter 2. Hopeful, Harmless, and Heroic: Figuring the Girl Activist as Global Savior

Jessica K. Taft



Chapter 3. Young Feminists Leading Change: Gender Transformative Education in Action

Ashlee Burnett, Dennis Glasgow, and Maryjacob Okwuosa



Chapter 4. "Because There Are Young Women Behind Me:" Learning from the Testimonios of Young Undocumented Women Advocates

Carolina Silva



Chapter 5. Sakai Magara: Activist Girl of Early Twentieth Century Japan

Barbara Hartley



Part II: For Girls and Young Women



Chapter 6. "Unsilencing the Girls:" Fostering a Practice of Schoolgirls' Agentic Roles and Participation in Decision-Making in Education in Oyo State, Nigeria

Edem Dorothy Ossai, Oluwadamilola Adedayo, Ewaoluwa Raufu, and Busayo Adebayo



Chapter 7. Photovoice and Cartography as Activist Tools:Mining for Solutions with Disabled Girls of Color in One U.S. High School

Amanda L. Miller and Jennifer A. Kurth



Chapter 8. Towards a Fairer Future: An Activist Model of Black Girl Leadership

Courtney Cook



Part III: With Girls and Young Women



Chapter 9. Be Well and Stay Safe:Facebook, Community Activism and Inuit Girls in the time of COVID

Julia Ussak, Haily May Ussak, Jennica Alhda Barcial, and Marnina Gonick



Chapter 10. Negotiating Girl-led Advocacy: Addressing Early and Forced Marriage in South Africa

Sadiyya Haffejee, Astrid Treffry-Goatley, Lisa Wiebesiek, and Nkonzo Mkhize



Chapter 11. Reflections on Expanding Girls' Political Capital at the United Nations

Emily Bent



Chapter 12. Trans Girls' Activism on YouTube and Instagram:A Radical Media Engagement of Mothers and Daughters

Lucas R. Platero, Iolanda Tortajada, and Cilia Willem



Chapter 13. "Speak With Girls, Not for Them:" Supporting Girls' Action Against Rape Culture

Alexe Bernier and Sarah Winstanley



Chapter 14. The Inheritance of Activism: Does Social Capital Shape Women's Lives?

Supriya Baily, Gloria Wang, and Elisabeth Scotto-Lavino



Conclusion: Acting Together

Catherine Vanner



Index