Catherine Vanner is an Assistant Professor and the VPRI Research Chair for the Faculty of Education at the University of Windsor. Previously, she worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University and an Education Advisor at Plan International Canada and the Canadian International Development Agency. Specializing in the use of qualitative and participatory methods to examine the relationship between education, gender, and violence, her recent publications include Teaching Peace and Conflict: The Multiple Roles of School Textbooks in Peacebuilding (Springer, 2022), co-edited with Spogmai Akseer and Thursica Kovinthan Levi, and journal articles in Girlhood Studies, Gender & Education, and Pedagogy, Culture & Society.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Collective Urgency: Networks of Girls and Young Women Taking ActionCatherine VannerPart I: By Girls and Young WomenChapter 1. Chalk Back: The Girl and Youth-Led Street Art Movement to #StopStreetHarassmentNatasha Harris-Harb and Sophie SandbergChapter 2. Hopeful, Harmless, and Heroic: Figuring the Girl Activist as Global SaviorJessica K. TaftChapter 3. Young Feminists Leading Change: Gender Transformative Education in ActionAshlee Burnett, Dennis Glasgow, and Maryjacob Okwuosa Chapter 4. “Because There Are Young Women Behind Me:” Learning from the Testimonios of Young Undocumented Women AdvocatesCarolina SilvaChapter 5. Sakai Magara: Activist Girl of Early Twentieth Century JapanBarbara HartleyPart II: For Girls and Young WomenChapter 6. “Unsilencing the Girls:” Fostering a Practice of Schoolgirls’ Agentic Roles and Participation in Decision-Making in Education in Oyo State, NigeriaEdem Dorothy Ossai, Oluwadamilola Adedayo, Ewaoluwa Raufu, and Busayo AdebayoChapter 7. Photovoice and Cartography as Activist Tools:Mining for Solutions with Disabled Girls of Color in One U.S. High SchoolAmanda L. Miller and Jennifer A. KurthChapter 8. Towards a Fairer Future: An Activist Model of Black Girl LeadershipCourtney CookPart III: With Girls and Young WomenChapter 9. Be Well and Stay Safe:Facebook, Community Activism and Inuit Girls in the time of COVIDJulia Ussak, Haily May Ussak, Jennica Alhda Barcial, and Marnina GonickChapter 10. Negotiating Girl-led Advocacy: Addressing Early and Forced Marriage in South AfricaSadiyya Haffejee, Astrid Treffry-Goatley, Lisa Wiebesiek, and Nkonzo MkhizeChapter 11. Reflections on Expanding Girls’ Political Capital at the United NationsEmily BentChapter 12. Trans Girls’ Activism on YouTube and Instagram:A Radical Media Engagement of Mothers and DaughtersLucas R. Platero, Iolanda Tortajada, and Cilia WillemChapter 13. “Speak With Girls, Not for Them:” Supporting Girls’ Action Against Rape CultureAlexe Bernier and Sarah WinstanleyChapter 14. The Inheritance of Activism: Does Social Capital Shape Women’s Lives?Supriya Baily, Gloria Wang, and Elisabeth Scotto-LavinoConclusion: Acting TogetherCatherine VannerIndex