Girlhood Studies
Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal established in 2008 by Jackie Kirk, Claudia Mitchell, and Jacqueline Reid-Walsh and published by Berghahn Journals. It became an official journal of the International Girls Studies Association in 2019. The journal discusses girlhood from the perspective of a broad range of fields including education, health, media studies, and literary studies. Of the three issues a year, two are themed issues on particular topics. The editor-in-chief is Claudia Mitchell. Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal received the award of Best New Journal in the Social Sciences & Humanities from the Association of American Publishers in 2009. The journal led to the establishment of a complementary book series, Transnational Girlhoods, in 2019, also published by Berghahn.
Editors
Editor-in-Chief: Claudia Mitchell, McGill University, CanadaManaging Editor: Ann Smith, McGill University, CanadaReviews Editor: Marnina Gonick, ''Mount St. Vincent University, Canada''Abstracting and indexing
Girlhood Studies is abstracted and indexed in:- Bibliometric Research Indicator List
- Biography Index
- Emerging Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)
- European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences
- MLA International Bibliography
- Norwegian Register for Scientific Journals, Series and Publishers
- Scopus
- Social Sciences Abstracts
- Social Sciences Index
- Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts
- TOC Premier Table of Contents
- Women's Studies Librarian: Feminist Periodicals