Witnessing Girlhood: Toward an Intersectional Tradition of Life Writing

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Witnessing Girlhood -- 1. Girls in Crisis: Feminist Resistance in Life Writing by Women of Color -- 2. Gender Pessimism and Survivor Storytelling in the Memoir Boom: Girl, Interrupted, Autobiography of a Face, and Nanette -- 3. Visualizing Sexual Violence and Feminist Child Witness: A Child's Life and Other Stories and Becoming Unbecoming -- 4. Teaching Dissent through Picture Books: Girlhood Activism and Graphic Life Writing for the Child -- Epilogue. Twenty-First-Century Formations: Child Witness, Trans Life Writing, and Futurity -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author

Girls in crisis: feminist resistance in life writing by women of color -- Gender pessimism and survivorstorytelling in the memoir boom: Girl, interrupted, Autobiography of a face, and Nanette -- Visualizing sexual violence and feminist child witness: A child's life and other stories and Becoming unbecoming -- Teaching dissent through picture books:girlhood activism and graphic life writing for the child -- Epilogue: twenty-first-century formations: child witness, trans life writing, and futurity.