Introduction: The Girl in the Pandemic
Claudia Mitchell and Ann Smith

Section One—Reflections

Chapter 1. Five Lessons from Past Ebola Epidemics for Today’s COVID-19 Pandemic
Nidhi Kapur

Chapter 2. How Build “Meaningful Bonds” with Poor Young Women? State Interventions during the Lockdown in Argentina
Ana Cecilia Gaitán

Chapter 3. What it all Means: Young Rural Women Confronting COVID-19
Nokukhanya Ngcobo, Zinhle Nkosi, and Ayub Sheik

Section Two—Continuing Education

Chapter 4. Women Teachers Support Girls during the COVID-19 School Closures in Uganda
Christine Apiot Okudi

Chapter 5. Experiencing Care: Young Women’s Response to COVID-19 Crises in Poland
Anna Bednarczyk, Zuzanna Kapciak, Kinga Madejczak, Alicja Sędzikowska, Natalia Witek, and Faustyna Zdziarska

Chapter 6. COVID-19: Education and Wellbeing of Female Agriculture Students in Ethiopia
Hannah Pugh, Eleni Negash, Frehiwot Tesfaye, and Madalyn Nielsen

Chapter 7. Exploring the Psycho-social Experiences of Women Undergraduates in Delhi during COVID-19 Pandemic
Richa Rana, Poonam Yadav, and Shreya Sandhu

Section Three—Vulnerabilities

Chapter 8. Lockdown and Violence against Women and Children: Insights from Hospital based Crisis Intervention Centers
Anupriya Singh, Sangeeta Rege, Anagha Pradhan

Chapter 9. COVID-19, Migrant Workers, and Marginalized Communities in India: Child Marriage on the Increase
Gayatri Sharma and Ayesha Khaliq

Chapter 10. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Child Domestic Workers in Ethiopia
Annabel Erulkar, Welela Tarekegne, and Eyasu Hailu

Chapter 11. The New Normal for Young Transgender Women in Thailand: Unspoken Gender-based Violence in the Time of COVID-19
Rapeepun Jommaroeng, Sara Hair, Cheera Thongkrajai, Kath Kangbipoon, and Suda Bootchadee

The Girl in the Pandemic

Transnational Perspectives

Edited by Claudia Mitchell and Ann Smith

224 pages, 4 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN 978-1-80073-807-2 Hb Published (April 2023)

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“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

As seen in previous pandemics, girls and young women are particularly vulnerable as social issues such as homelessness, mental healthcare, access to education, and child labor are often exacerbated. The Girl in the Pandemic considers what academics, community activists, and those working in local, national, and global NGOs are learning about the lives of girls and young women during pandemics. Drawing from a range of responses during the pandemic including first person narratives, community ethnographies, and participatory action research, this collection offers a picture of how the COVID-19 pandemic played out in eight different countries.

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.

Ann Smith has been the managing editor of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal since its inception. Formerly a lecturer in the Department of English, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, where she specialized in literary theory with a particular focus on feminism and queer theory, she is now an adjunct professor in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education at McGill University, Montreal.

Series: Volume 5, Transnational Girlhoods

Subject: Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Sociology

Area:

BISAC: SOC028000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Women's Studies; SOC047000 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Children's Studies; SOC002010 SOCIAL SCIENCE/Anthropology/Cultural & Social

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The Girl in the Pandemic

Transnational Perspectives

Edited by Claudia Mitchell and Ann Smith

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Subject: Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Sociology

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The Girl in the Pandemic

Transnational Perspectives

Edited by Claudia Mitchell and Ann Smith

Series: Volume 5, Transnational Girlhoods

Subject: Gender Studies and Sexuality Development Studies Sociology

Area:

This title is published as Open Access

Full Text PDF | Full Text ePUB Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from Knowledge Unlatched.