Description:
The early and critical stages of the pandemic presented exacerbated risks to the lives of girls and young women. The Girl in the Pandemic takes a diverse range of scholars across the world, particularly from the Global South, to document and contribute to a large narrative of what a post-pandemic future may bring for girls and young women.
Brief description:
Ann Smith has been the managing editor of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal since its inception. Formerly a lecturer in the Department of English, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, where she specialized in literary theory with a particular focus on feminism and queer theory, she is now an adjunct professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University, Montreal.
Review Quotes:
"The Girl in the Pandemic makes a unique and much-needed contribution to the scholarship on Girlhood Studies in times of crises in different global contexts and particularly including scholarship from the global south and north." - Relebohile Moletsane, University of KwaZulu-Natal
"While the work is contextualized in the current pandemic, it has transferability to other pandemics and disasters. The data across the chapters are rich and interesting and present and represent the riveting, unchanging and changing story of girls and young women, from a range of country contexts, education contexts, cultural contexts, and religious contexts, enabling the reader to see for herself what is similar and different to her own context, but also how extensive and complex the problems for girls are." - Naydene de Lange, Nelson Mandela University