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DESCRIPTION:\n	In Making Modern Girls: A History of Girlhood\, Labour\, and 
 Social Development in Colonial Lagos (2014)\, historian Abosede George urg
 es scholars of childhood and youth in Africa\, to ‘girl’ the subject of th
 eir study. Too often\, she and others have pointed out\, historians have a
 ssumed that the ‘youths’ who appear frequently in accounts of colonial and
  postcolonial politics\, especially\, are gendered adolescent and male. In
  this definition of ‘youth’\, girls are left out.\n\nThe purpose of this p
 aper is twofold. Firstly\, it explores what a history of South African gir
 lhood might look like. Avoiding what some historians of childhood and yout
 h have dubbed the ‘agency trap’—a narrow definition of agency-as-resistanc
 e which frequently excludes more than it brings to light—the paper draws a
 ttention to the surprising frequency with which girls turn up in the South
  African archive. They appear in court records as both ‘delinquents’ and t
 he subjects of state care\; in advertisements for consumer products in the
  twentieth century\; as the authors of diaries\, letters\, and stories\; a
 s pupils and as sex workers and factory workers\; as refugees during confl
 ict\, and as prophetesses. These rich sources build up a complex portrait 
 of the lived experience of girlhood in modern South Africa.\n\n But second
 ly\, attentive to the changing meanings of ‘girlhood’ over time\, and part
 icularly as the category was inflected in relation to race and class\, the
  paper the paper asks how the addition of girls into South African history
 \, might shift the ways in which we approach this history. Put another way
 \, how would a ‘girl’s eye view’ reshape familiar arguments and frameworks
 ?\n\nFor additional information\, please contact Rachel Sandwell\, rachel.
 sandwell [at] mcgill.ca\n\nSponsored by: Department of History and Classic
 al Studies & the Institute for Gender\, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies\n
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LOCATION:Room 738\, Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 855 r
 ue Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:'Tampax\, Snowdrops\, and Girls Throwing Axes: Writing Girlhood int
 o Modern South African History\,' a talk by Dr. Sarah Emily Duff\, Assista
 nt Professor of World and African History\, Colby College
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 rowing-axes-writing-girlhood-modern-south-african-history-talk-dr-sarah-30
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