The Girl in the Pandemic: Transnational Perspectives

Open Access Published by Berghahn Books 2023

The Girl in the Pandemic

Transnational Perspectives

Edited by: Claudia Mitchell and Ann Smith
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched

Volume 5 in the series Transnational Girlhoods

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800737792

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About this book

As seen in previous pandemics, girls and young women are particularly vulnerable as social issues such as homelessness, mental healthcare, access to education, and child labor are often exacerbated. The Girl in the Pandemic considers what academics, community activists, and those working in local, national, and global NGOs are learning about the lives of girls and young women during pandemics. Drawing from a range of responses during the pandemic including first person narratives, community ethnographies, and participatory action research, this collection offers a picture of how the COVID-19 pandemic played out in eight different countries.

Author / Editor information

Claudia Mitchell is a Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Faculty of Education, McGill University where she is the director of the Institute for Human Development and Well-being and the founder and director of the Participatory Cultures Lab. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the award-winning journal Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

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.

Claudia Mitchell is a Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Faculty of Education, McGill University where she is the director of the Institute for Human Development and Well-being and the founder and director of the Participatory Cultures Lab. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the award-winning journal Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

Reviews

“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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction The Girl in the Pandemic Claudia Mitchell and Ann Smith Open Access Download PDF	1
PART I. Reflections
Chapter 1 Five Lessons from Past Ebola Epidemics for Today’s COVID-19 Pandemic Nidhi Kapur Open Access Download PDF	15
Chapter 2 How to Build “Meaningful Bonds” with Poor Young Women? State Interventions during the Lockdown in Argentina Ana Cecilia Gaitán Open Access Download PDF	33
Chapter 3 What It All Means: Young Rural Women in South Africa Confronting COVID-19 Nokukhanya Ngcobo, Zinhle Nkosi and Ayub Sheik Open Access Download PDF	49
Part II. Continuing Education
Chapter 4 Women Teachers Support Girls during the COVID-19 School Closures in Uganda Christine Apiot Okudi Open Access Download PDF	69
Chapter 5 Experiencing Care: Young Women’s Response to COVID-19 Crises in Poland Anna Bednarczyk, Zuzanna Kapciak, Kinga Madejczak, Alicja Sędzikowska, Natalia Witek and Faustyna Zdziarska Open Access Download PDF	86
Chapter 6 COVID-19, Education, and Well-Being: Experiences of Female Agriculture Students in Ethiopia Hannah Pugh, Eleni Negash, Frehiwot Tesfaye and Madalyn Nielsen Open Access Download PDF	101
Chapter 7 Exploring the Psychosocial Experiences of Women Undergraduates in Delhi, India, during the COVID-19 Pandemic Richa Rana, Poonam Yadav and Shreya Sandhu Open Access Download PDF	120
PART III. Vulnerabilities
Chapter 8 Lockdown and Violence against Women and Children: Insights from Hospital-Based Crisis Intervention Centers in Mumbai, India Anupriya Singh, Sangeeta Rege and Anagha Pradhan Open Access Download PDF	139
Chapter 9 Th e Impact of COVID-19 on Child Marriage in India Gayatri Sharma and Ayesha Khaliq Open Access Download PDF	156
Chapter 10 Th e Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Child Domestic Workers in Ethiopia Annabel Erulkar, Welela Tarekegne and Eyasu Hailu Open Access Download PDF	174
Chapter 11 Th e New Normal for Young Transgender Women in Thailand: Unspoken Gender-Based Violence in the Time of COVID-19 Rapeepun Jommaroeng, Sara Hair, Cheera Thongkrajai, Kath Kangbipoon and Suda Bootchadee Open Access Download PDF	190
Index Open Access Download PDF	207

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 196

eBook

Published: April 14, 2023
ISBN: 9781800737792