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DESCRIPTION:In Making Modern Girls: A History of Girlhood\, Labour\, and So
 cial Development in Colonial Lagos (2014)\, historian Abosede George urges
  scholars of childhood and youth in Africa\, to ‘girl’ the subject of thei
 r study. Too often\, she and others have pointed out\, historians have ass
 umed that the ‘youths’ who appear frequently in accounts of colonial and p
 ostcolonial politics\, especially\, are gendered adolescent and male. In t
 his definition of ‘youth’\, girls are left out.\n\nThe purpose of this pap
 er is twofold. Firstly\, it explores what a history of South African girlh
 ood might look like. Avoiding what some historians of childhood and youth 
 have dubbed the ‘agency trap’—a narrow definition of agency-as-resistance 
 which frequently excludes more than it brings to light—the paper draws att
 ention to the surprising frequency with which girls turn up in the South A
 frican archive. They appear in court records as both ‘delinquents’ and the
  subjects of state care\; in advertisements for consumer products in the t
 wentieth century\; as the authors of diaries\, letters\, and stories\; as 
 pupils and as sex workers and factory workers\; as refugees during conflic
 t\, and as prophetesses. These rich sources build up a complex portrait of
  the lived experience of girlhood in modern South Africa.\n\nBut secondly\
 , attentive to the changing meanings of ‘girlhood’ over time\, and particu
 larly as the category was inflected in relation to race and class\, the pa
 per asks how the addition of girls into South African history might shift 
 the ways in which we approach this history. Put another way\, how would a 
 ‘girl’s eye view’ reshape familiar arguments and frameworks?\n\nSponsored 
 by: Department of History and Classical Studies & the Institute for Gender
 \, Sexuality\, and Feminist Studies\n
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LOCATION:Rm. 738\, Centre de recherches phytotechniques\, CA\, QC\, St Anne
  de Bellevue\, H9X 3V9\, 21 111\, chemin Lakeshore
SUMMARY:Tampax\, Snowdrops\, and Girls Throwing Axes: Writing Girlhood into
  Modern South African History\,” a talk by Dr. Sarah Emily Duff\, Assistan
 t Professor of World and African History\, Colby College
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/history/channels/event/tampax-snowdrops-and-girls
 -throwing-axes-writing-girlhood-modern-south-african-history-talk-dr-sarah
 -302846
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