Clare Bradford is a professor of literary studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, where she teaches and researches mainly children's literature. Her 2001 book, Reading Race: Aboriginality in Australian Children's Literature, won both the Children's Literature Association Book Award and the IRSCL Award of the International Research Society for Children's Literature. Clare Bradford's publications have appeared in Canadian Children's Literature, Children's Literature, The Lion and the Unicorn, Papers, and The Children's Literature Association Quarterly.Mavis Reimer is Canada Research Chair in the Culture of Childhood, director of the Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures, and an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg. She is co-author with Perry Nodelman of the third edition of The Pleasures of Children's Literature and editor of a collection of essays on Anne of Green Gables, entitled Such a Simple Little Tale.

• Girls, Texts, Cultures, edited by Clare Bradford and Mavis ReimerIntroduction: Girls, Texts, Cultures: Cross-disciplinary Dialogues Clare Bradford and Mavis ReimerI Contemporary Girlhoods and Subjectivities 1. From Girlhood, Girls, to Girls' Studies: The Power of the Text Dawn H. Currie2. On Secrets, Lies, and Fiction: Girls Learning the Art of Survival Kerry Mallan3. Disgusting Subjects: Consumer-Class Distinction and the Affective Regulation of Girl Desire Elizabeth Bullen4. Still Centre Stage? Reframing Girls' Culture in New Generation Fictions of Performance Pamela KnightsII The Politics of Girlhood 5. Warrior Girl and the Searching Tribe: Indigenous Girls' Everyday Negotiations of Racialization under Neocolonialism Sandrina de Finney and Johanne Saraceno6. Girls' Texts, Visual Culture, and Shifting the Boundaries of Knowledge in Social Justice Research: The Politics of Making the Invisible Visible Claudia Mitchell7. ""Doing Their bit"": The Great War and Transnationalism in Girls' Fiction Kristine Moruzi8. Bollywood as a Role Model: Dating and Negotiating Romance Kabita ChakrabortyIII Settling and Unsettling Girlhoods 9. Movable Morals: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Flap Books and Paper Doll Books for Girls as Interactive ""Conduct Books"" Jacqueline Reid-Walsh10. Wild Australian Girls? The Mythology of Colonial Femininity in British Print Culture, 1885-1926 Michelle J. Smith11. Dynamic (Con)Texts: Close Readings of Girls' Video Gameplay Stephanie Fisher, Jennifer Jenson, and Suzanne de Castell12. Reading Smart Girls: Post-Nerds in Post-Feminist Popular Culture Shauna Pomerantz and Rebecca RabyContributorsIndex

Clare Bradford is a professor of literary studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, where she teaches and researches mainly children's literature. Her 2001 book, Reading Race: Aboriginality in Australian Children's Literature, won both the Children's Literature Association Book Award and the IRSCL Award of the International Research Society for Children's Literature. Clare Bradford's publications have appeared in Canadian Children's Literature, Children's Literature, The Lion and the Unicorn, Papers, and The Children's Literature Association Quarterly.Mavis Reimer is Canada Research Chair in the Culture of Childhood, director of the Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures, and an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg. She is co-author with Perry Nodelman of the third edition of The Pleasures of Children's Literature and editor of a collection of essays on Anne of Green Gables, entitled Such a Simple Little Tale.

• Girls, Texts, Cultures, edited by Clare Bradford and Mavis ReimerIntroduction: Girls, Texts, Cultures: Cross-disciplinary Dialogues Clare Bradford and Mavis ReimerI Contemporary Girlhoods and Subjectivities 1. From Girlhood, Girls, to Girls' Studies: The Power of the Text Dawn H. Currie2. On Secrets, Lies, and Fiction: Girls Learning the Art of Survival Kerry Mallan3. Disgusting Subjects: Consumer-Class Distinction and the Affective Regulation of Girl Desire Elizabeth Bullen4. Still Centre Stage? Reframing Girls' Culture in New Generation Fictions of Performance Pamela KnightsII The Politics of Girlhood 5. Warrior Girl and the Searching Tribe: Indigenous Girls' Everyday Negotiations of Racialization under Neocolonialism Sandrina de Finney and Johanne Saraceno6. Girls' Texts, Visual Culture, and Shifting the Boundaries of Knowledge in Social Justice Research: The Politics of Making the Invisible Visible Claudia Mitchell7. ""Doing Their bit"": The Great War and Transnationalism in Girls' Fiction Kristine Moruzi8. Bollywood as a Role Model: Dating and Negotiating Romance Kabita ChakrabortyIII Settling and Unsettling Girlhoods 9. Movable Morals: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Flap Books and Paper Doll Books for Girls as Interactive ""Conduct Books"" Jacqueline Reid-Walsh10. Wild Australian Girls? The Mythology of Colonial Femininity in British Print Culture, 1885-1926 Michelle J. Smith11. Dynamic (Con)Texts: Close Readings of Girls' Video Gameplay Stephanie Fisher, Jennifer Jenson, and Suzanne de Castell12. Reading Smart Girls: Post-Nerds in Post-Feminist Popular Culture Shauna Pomerantz and Rebecca RabyContributorsIndex

Clare Bradford is a professor of literary studies at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia, where she teaches and researches mainly children's literature. Her 2001 book, Reading Race: Aboriginality in Australian Children's Literature, won both the Children's Literature Association Book Award and the IRSCL Award of the International Research Society for Children's Literature. Clare Bradford's publications have appeared in Canadian Children's Literature, Children's Literature, The Lion and the Unicorn, Papers, and The Children's Literature Association Quarterly.Mavis Reimer is Canada Research Chair in the Culture of Childhood, director of the Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures, and an associate professor in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg. She is co-author with Perry Nodelman of the third edition of The Pleasures of Children's Literature and editor of a collection of essays on Anne of Green Gables, entitled Such a Simple Little Tale.

• Girls, Texts, Cultures, edited by Clare Bradford and Mavis ReimerIntroduction: Girls, Texts, Cultures: Cross-disciplinary Dialogues Clare Bradford and Mavis ReimerI Contemporary Girlhoods and Subjectivities 1. From Girlhood, Girls, to Girls' Studies: The Power of the Text Dawn H. Currie2. On Secrets, Lies, and Fiction: Girls Learning the Art of Survival Kerry Mallan3. Disgusting Subjects: Consumer-Class Distinction and the Affective Regulation of Girl Desire Elizabeth Bullen4. Still Centre Stage? Reframing Girls' Culture in New Generation Fictions of Performance Pamela KnightsII The Politics of Girlhood 5. Warrior Girl and the Searching Tribe: Indigenous Girls' Everyday Negotiations of Racialization under Neocolonialism Sandrina de Finney and Johanne Saraceno6. Girls' Texts, Visual Culture, and Shifting the Boundaries of Knowledge in Social Justice Research: The Politics of Making the Invisible Visible Claudia Mitchell7. ""Doing Their bit"": The Great War and Transnationalism in Girls' Fiction Kristine Moruzi8. Bollywood as a Role Model: Dating and Negotiating Romance Kabita ChakrabortyIII Settling and Unsettling Girlhoods 9. Movable Morals: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Flap Books and Paper Doll Books for Girls as Interactive ""Conduct Books"" Jacqueline Reid-Walsh10. Wild Australian Girls? The Mythology of Colonial Femininity in British Print Culture, 1885-1926 Michelle J. Smith11. Dynamic (Con)Texts: Close Readings of Girls' Video Gameplay Stephanie Fisher, Jennifer Jenson, and Suzanne de Castell12. Reading Smart Girls: Post-Nerds in Post-Feminist Popular Culture Shauna Pomerantz and Rebecca RabyContributorsIndex