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

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established in 2008 by Jackie Kirk, Claudia Mitchell, and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh and published by Berghahn Journals. 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

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, and

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. Of the three issues a year, two are themed issues on particular topics. The

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is Claudia Mitchell (

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). ''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 *

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(Elsevier) * Social Sciences Abstracts (Ebsco) * Social Sciences Index (Ebsco) * Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts (

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) * TOC Premier Table of Contents (Ebsco) * Women's Studies Librarian: Feminist Periodicals (

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)

References

External links

* {{Official, https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/girlhood-studies/girlhood-studies-overview.xml English-language journals Sociology journals Biannual journals Berghahn Books academic journals Publications established in 2008