Why We Need Girls’ Studies: Hannah Maitland

Welcome to Girl Museum’s interview series, Why We Need Girls’ Studies, for 2024. We have many exciting interviews this year with important scholars in the field to get insights about what we are all doing in this space to further our understanding of...

bell hooks in Hopkinsville

At a small museum in a small Kentucky town, I found bell hooks’ girlhood. Visiting during a recent museums conference, I was exploring the many displays at the Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County: home to many intriguing historical figures. And...

Meet the Interns: Glafira Soldatova

Country: Netherlands Short bio: I am a student in the International Master’s programme “Children’s Literature, Media and Culture”. During the semester abroad at Tilburg University in the Netherlands, I am focusing on the transcultural...

Girlhoods at Liminal Spaces: Thinking of Magazines, Then and Now

Girl magazines also built communication networks. The bravest ones could write to editors so their question or letter would be published. Magazines were also useful for local communities. Girls could read them together and engage in new activities together. We connected.

Girlhood Hobbies: Band and Colorguard

I’ve been into musical instruments for what feels like all of my life, but fifth grade is when I really fell in love with it. The summer before fifth grade, I knew what was coming that next school year: band. My cousin, who was a few years ahead of me, told so...

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