Girls and Activism in a Neoliberal Time: How Teen Girls from Toronto Negotiate Care, Activism, and Extraordinary Girlhood

Autor/in	Benigno, Tina Belinda
Titel	Girls and Activism in a Neoliberal Time: How Teen Girls from Toronto Negotiate Care, Activism, and Extraordinary Girlhood
Quelle	In: Global Studies of Childhood, 13 (2023) 1, S.34-50 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Benigno, Tina Belinda)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI	10.1177/20436106211027341
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Females; Activism; Social Change; Experience; Neoliberalism; Feminism; Individual Power; Power Structure; High School Students; Caring; Interpersonal Relationship; Citizen Participation; Publicity; Canada (Toronto) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Weibliches Geschlecht; Aktivismus; Politischer Protest; Sozialer Wandel; Erfahrung; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Feminismus; Eigeninitiative; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Care; Pflege; Sorge; Betreuung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; 'Citizen participation; Citizens'' participation'; Bürgerbeteiligung
Abstract	Recently, a number of prominent teen girl activist leaders have been gaining the world's attention, but how do girls not in the public eye and with less social power think about activism? Moreover, how do girls who may not exclusively define themselves as activists, negotiate their own desire to contribute to social change with challenges they identify as holding them back from doing so? Through qualitative research with eight teenage girls in Toronto, I explore the ways these teen girls define the "activist," their role in activism, and the challenges holding them back from being more active. My methodology is congruent, reflecting my feminist and youth studies commitment to girls leading research, and my findings indicate that such an approach is crucial in order to truly understand how girls with less social power and public visibility experience the world and their roles within it. Doing so also challenge pre-conceived notions and standards of extraordinary girlhood. The findings coincide with what Catherine Rottenberg refers to as neoliberal feminism. The extraordinariness implicit in visible activism framed the girls from my study's views on what it would take to be a true activist themselves, which was both intimidating and also at times is in contention with their monumental care and concern for loved ones. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01