Leigh Gilmore (Author) Leigh Gilmore is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of several books, including most recently Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives.Elizabeth Marshall (Author) Elizabeth Marshall is Associate Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Graphic Girlhoods: Visualizing Education and Violence.

• Introduction: Witnessing Girlhood 11. Girls in Crisis: Feminist Resistance in Life Writing by Women of Color 132. Gender Pessimism and Survivor Storytelling in the Memoir Boom:Girl, Interrupted, Autobiography of a Face, and Nanette 383. Visualizing Sexual Violence and Feminist Child Witness:A Child's Life and Other Stories and Becoming Unbecoming 634. Teaching Dissent through Picture Books:Girlhood Activism and Graphic Life Writing for the Child 86Epilogue. Twenty-First-Century Formations: Child Witness, Trans Life Writing, and Futurity 101Acknowledgments 113Notes 115Index 141

Leigh Gilmore (Author) Leigh Gilmore is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of several books, including most recently Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives.Elizabeth Marshall (Author) Elizabeth Marshall is Associate Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Graphic Girlhoods: Visualizing Education and Violence.

• Introduction: Witnessing Girlhood 11. Girls in Crisis: Feminist Resistance in Life Writing by Women of Color 132. Gender Pessimism and Survivor Storytelling in the Memoir Boom:Girl, Interrupted, Autobiography of a Face, and Nanette 383. Visualizing Sexual Violence and Feminist Child Witness:A Child's Life and Other Stories and Becoming Unbecoming 634. Teaching Dissent through Picture Books:Girlhood Activism and Graphic Life Writing for the Child 86Epilogue. Twenty-First-Century Formations: Child Witness, Trans Life Writing, and Futurity 101Acknowledgments 113Notes 115Index 141

Leigh Gilmore (Author) Leigh Gilmore is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. She is the author of several books, including most recently Tainted Witness: Why We Doubt What Women Say About Their Lives.Elizabeth Marshall (Author) Elizabeth Marshall is Associate Professor of Education at Simon Fraser University. She is the author of Graphic Girlhoods: Visualizing Education and Violence.

• Introduction: Witnessing Girlhood 11. Girls in Crisis: Feminist Resistance in Life Writing by Women of Color 132. Gender Pessimism and Survivor Storytelling in the Memoir Boom:Girl, Interrupted, Autobiography of a Face, and Nanette 383. Visualizing Sexual Violence and Feminist Child Witness:A Child's Life and Other Stories and Becoming Unbecoming 634. Teaching Dissent through Picture Books:Girlhood Activism and Graphic Life Writing for the Child 86Epilogue. Twenty-First-Century Formations: Child Witness, Trans Life Writing, and Futurity 101Acknowledgments 113Notes 115Index 141