''Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal'' is a

peer-reviewed Peer review is the evaluation of work by one or more people with similar competencies as the producers of the work (peers). It functions as a form of self-regulation by qualified members of a profession within the relevant field. Peer review ...

academic journal established in 2008 by Jackie Kirk, Claudia Mitchell, and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh and published by

Berghahn Journals Berghahn Books is a New York and Oxford-based publisher of scholarly books and academic journals in the humanities and social sciences, with a special focus on social & cultural anthropology, European history, politics, and film & media studie ...

. It became an official journal of the International Girls Studies Association (IGSA) in 2019. The journal discusses girlhood from the perspective of a broad range of fields including education, health,

media studies Media studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history, and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media. Media Studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly ...

, and literary studies. Of the three issues a year, two are themed issues on particular topics. The editor-in-chief is Claudia Mitchell ( McGill University). ''Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal'' received the award of Best New Journal in the Social Sciences & Humanities from the Association of American Publishers in 2009. The journal led to the establishment of a complementary book series, Transnational Girlhoods, in 2019, also published by Berghahn.

Editors

* Editor-in-Chief: Claudia Mitchell, ''McGill University, Canada'' * Managing Editor: Ann Smith, ''McGill University, Canada'' * Reviews Editor: Marnina Gonick, ''Mount St. Vincent University, Canada''

Abstracting and indexing

''Girlhood Studies'' is abstracted and indexed in: * Bibliometric Research Indicator List (BFI) * Biography Index (Ebsco) * Emerging Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) * European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences (

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) * MLA International Bibliography * Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers * Scopus (Elsevier) * Social Sciences Abstracts (Ebsco) * Social Sciences Index (Ebsco) * Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts ( Taylor & Francis) * TOC Premier Table of Contents (Ebsco) * Women's Studies Librarian: Feminist Periodicals ( University of Wisconsin)

References

External links

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