Donna Marie Johnson is an independent scholar, researcher, educator, and girls' advocate. Alice E. Ginsberg is a Curricula Development and Teacher Education Specialist at the Center for Minority Serving Institutions at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include Embracing Risk in Urban Education: Curiosity, Creativity, and Courage in the Era of "No Excuses" and Evolution of American Women's Studies: Reflections on Triumphs, Controversies, and Change.

• List of IllustrationsForeword: Difficult DialoguesLyn Mikel BrownAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Girls’ Studies: What’s New?Donna Marie Johnson and Alice E. GinsbergPart I: New Ways of Knowing About Girls 1. A Call to Action: Education Scholarship Meeting the Needs of African American Elementary and Secondary School GirlsDonna Marie Johnson2. Girl Uninterrupted: Using Interactive Voice Diaries as a Girls’ Studies Research MethodDana Edell3. "It Means that I Am Knowledge": GirlPAR as an Emergent MethodologyLaura Boutwell and Faduma Guhad4. "Talking Out of School": Crossing and Extending Borders with Collaborative Research in Girls’ Studies, Women’s Studies, and Teacher EducationSheila Hassell Hughes and Carolyn S. Ridenour5. Stop Saving the Girl? Pedagogical Considerations for Transforming Girls’ StudiesKaty Strzepek6. Beyond "Us" Versus "Them": Transnationalizing Girlhood StudiesShana L. CalixtePart II: Girl Power Redefined 7. High School Classrooms as Contested Sites of Future Feminist Power: Explicating Marginality Beyond Disadvantage into PowerKerrita K. Mayfield8. From Cyborgs to Cybergrrrls: Redefining "Girl Power" Through Digital LiteracyLeandra Preston-Sidler9. "Off Balance": Talking About Girls’ Health in the Era of the "Obesity Epidemic"Marie Drews10. "Babies Havin’ Babies": Examining Visual Representations of Teenage PregnancyCandice J. Merritt11. "At-Risk" for Greatness: Girls’ Studies Programs and the Art of Growing UpAlice E. Ginsberg12. Standing on Shoulders Strong: A Conversation with Leading Girls Studies ScholarsModerated by Dr. Donna JohnsonDiscussants: Lyn Mikel Brown, Peggy Orenstein, Stephanie Sears, Bianca L. Guzmán, Elline Lipkin, Sheila Hassell Hughes, and Alice GinsbergList of ContributorsIndex

Donna Marie Johnson is an independent scholar, researcher, educator, and girls' advocate. Alice E. Ginsberg is a Curricula Development and Teacher Education Specialist at the Center for Minority Serving Institutions at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include Embracing Risk in Urban Education: Curiosity, Creativity, and Courage in the Era of "No Excuses" and Evolution of American Women's Studies: Reflections on Triumphs, Controversies, and Change.

• List of IllustrationsForeword: Difficult DialoguesLyn Mikel BrownAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Girls’ Studies: What’s New?Donna Marie Johnson and Alice E. GinsbergPart I: New Ways of Knowing About Girls 1. A Call to Action: Education Scholarship Meeting the Needs of African American Elementary and Secondary School GirlsDonna Marie Johnson2. Girl Uninterrupted: Using Interactive Voice Diaries as a Girls’ Studies Research MethodDana Edell3. "It Means that I Am Knowledge": GirlPAR as an Emergent MethodologyLaura Boutwell and Faduma Guhad4. "Talking Out of School": Crossing and Extending Borders with Collaborative Research in Girls’ Studies, Women’s Studies, and Teacher EducationSheila Hassell Hughes and Carolyn S. Ridenour5. Stop Saving the Girl? Pedagogical Considerations for Transforming Girls’ StudiesKaty Strzepek6. Beyond "Us" Versus "Them": Transnationalizing Girlhood StudiesShana L. CalixtePart II: Girl Power Redefined 7. High School Classrooms as Contested Sites of Future Feminist Power: Explicating Marginality Beyond Disadvantage into PowerKerrita K. Mayfield8. From Cyborgs to Cybergrrrls: Redefining "Girl Power" Through Digital LiteracyLeandra Preston-Sidler9. "Off Balance": Talking About Girls’ Health in the Era of the "Obesity Epidemic"Marie Drews10. "Babies Havin’ Babies": Examining Visual Representations of Teenage PregnancyCandice J. Merritt11. "At-Risk" for Greatness: Girls’ Studies Programs and the Art of Growing UpAlice E. Ginsberg12. Standing on Shoulders Strong: A Conversation with Leading Girls Studies ScholarsModerated by Dr. Donna JohnsonDiscussants: Lyn Mikel Brown, Peggy Orenstein, Stephanie Sears, Bianca L. Guzmán, Elline Lipkin, Sheila Hassell Hughes, and Alice GinsbergList of ContributorsIndex

Donna Marie Johnson is an independent scholar, researcher, educator, and girls' advocate. Alice E. Ginsberg is a Curricula Development and Teacher Education Specialist at the Center for Minority Serving Institutions at the University of Pennsylvania. Her books include Embracing Risk in Urban Education: Curiosity, Creativity, and Courage in the Era of "No Excuses" and Evolution of American Women's Studies: Reflections on Triumphs, Controversies, and Change.

• List of IllustrationsForeword: Difficult DialoguesLyn Mikel BrownAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Girls’ Studies: What’s New?Donna Marie Johnson and Alice E. GinsbergPart I: New Ways of Knowing About Girls 1. A Call to Action: Education Scholarship Meeting the Needs of African American Elementary and Secondary School GirlsDonna Marie Johnson2. Girl Uninterrupted: Using Interactive Voice Diaries as a Girls’ Studies Research MethodDana Edell3. "It Means that I Am Knowledge": GirlPAR as an Emergent MethodologyLaura Boutwell and Faduma Guhad4. "Talking Out of School": Crossing and Extending Borders with Collaborative Research in Girls’ Studies, Women’s Studies, and Teacher EducationSheila Hassell Hughes and Carolyn S. Ridenour5. Stop Saving the Girl? Pedagogical Considerations for Transforming Girls’ StudiesKaty Strzepek6. Beyond "Us" Versus "Them": Transnationalizing Girlhood StudiesShana L. CalixtePart II: Girl Power Redefined 7. High School Classrooms as Contested Sites of Future Feminist Power: Explicating Marginality Beyond Disadvantage into PowerKerrita K. Mayfield8. From Cyborgs to Cybergrrrls: Redefining "Girl Power" Through Digital LiteracyLeandra Preston-Sidler9. "Off Balance": Talking About Girls’ Health in the Era of the "Obesity Epidemic"Marie Drews10. "Babies Havin’ Babies": Examining Visual Representations of Teenage PregnancyCandice J. Merritt11. "At-Risk" for Greatness: Girls’ Studies Programs and the Art of Growing UpAlice E. Ginsberg12. Standing on Shoulders Strong: A Conversation with Leading Girls Studies ScholarsModerated by Dr. Donna JohnsonDiscussants: Lyn Mikel Brown, Peggy Orenstein, Stephanie Sears, Bianca L. Guzmán, Elline Lipkin, Sheila Hassell Hughes, and Alice GinsbergList of ContributorsIndex