Girl in the Pandemic

Claudia Mitchell is a Distinguished James McGill Professor in the Faculty of Education, McGill University where she is the director of the Institute for Human Development and Well-being and the founder and director of the Participatory Cultures Lab. She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the award-winning journal Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal.

“The Girl in the Pandemic makes a unique and much-needed contribution to the scholarship on Girlhood Studies in times of crises in different global contexts and particularly including scholarship from the global south and north.” • Relebohile Moletsane, University of KwaZulu-Natal“While the work is contextualized in the current pandemic, it has transferability to other pandemics and disasters. The data across the chapters are rich and interesting and present and represent the riveting, unchanging and changing story of girls and young women, from a range of country contexts, education contexts, cultural contexts, and religious contexts, enabling the reader to see for herself what is similar and different to her own context, but also how extensive and complex the problems for girls are.” • Naydene de Lange, Nelson Mandela University

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: The Girl in the PandemicClaudia Mitchell and Ann SmithSection One—ReflectionsChapter 1. Five Lessons from Past Ebola Epidemics for Today’s COVID-19 PandemicNidhi KapurChapter 2. How Build “Meaningful Bonds” with Poor Young Women? State Interventions during the Lockdown in ArgentinaAna Cecilia GaitánChapter 3. What it all Means: Young Rural Women Confronting COVID-19Nokukhanya Ngcobo, Zinhle Nkosi, and Ayub SheikSection Two—Continuing EducationChapter 4. Women Teachers Support Girls during the COVID-19 School Closures in UgandaChristine Apiot OkudiChapter 5. Experiencing Care: Young Women’s Response to COVID-19 Crises in PolandAnna Bednarczyk, Zuzanna Kapciak, Kinga Madejczak, Alicja Sędzikowska, Natalia Witek, and Faustyna ZdziarskaChapter 6. COVID-19: Education and Wellbeing of Female Agriculture Students in EthiopiaHannah Pugh, Eleni Negash, Frehiwot Tesfaye, and Madalyn NielsenChapter 7. Exploring the Psycho-social Experiences of Women Undergraduates in Delhi during COVID-19 PandemicRicha Rana, Poonam Yadav, and Shreya SandhuSection Three—VulnerabilitiesChapter 8. Lockdown and Violence against Women and Children: Insights from Hospital based Crisis Intervention CentersAnupriya Singh, Sangeeta Rege, Anagha PradhanChapter 9. COVID-19, Migrant Workers, and Marginalized Communities in India: Child Marriage on the IncreaseGayatri Sharma and Ayesha KhaliqChapter 10. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Child Domestic Workers in EthiopiaAnnabel Erulkar, Welela Tarekegne, and Eyasu HailuChapter 11. The New Normal for Young Transgender Women in Thailand: Unspoken Gender-based Violence in the Time of COVID-19Rapeepun Jommaroeng, Sara Hair, Cheera Thongkrajai, Kath Kangbipoon, and Suda Bootchadee