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28 April 2015 
 Girlhood Studies An Interdisciplinary Journal. Special Issue: "Girlhood Studies in Post-Socialist Times" Girlhood Studies An Interdisciplinary Journal (Volume 8, Number 1 ). Special Issue: «Girlhood Studies in Post-Socialist Times» edited by Olga Zdravomyslova and Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova The idea of this Special issue was created  after the first Russian Girlhood Studies conference, held in Moscow on 7 December 2012 at the Gorbachev Foundation.  Editor-in-Chief of  Girlhood Studies An Interdisciplinary Journal,  Claudia Mitchell ( McGill University) writes: “ This conference was a momentous event, attended by Mr. Gorbachev himself, that brought together scholars  from various Russian universities and institutions to consider what Girlhood Studies  as an  interdisciplinary area of feminist scholarship could look like". CONTENTS Volume 8, Number 1 * Spring 2015 Special Issue: Girlhood Studies in Post-Sociatist Times Edited by Olga Zdravomyslova and Elena Larskaia-Smirnova Editorial International Collaboration and the Spread of Cirlhood Sfudies Claudia Mitchell                                                                                                                         Introduction Girlhood Studies in Post-Socialist Times Olga Zdravomyslova and Elena Larskaia-Smirnova                                                         Articles Bodies in Transition: Girlhoods in Post-Communist Baikan Cinema                        Ana Bento-Ribeiro The Construction of Girls' Femininity through the Ukrainian TV Show The Queen of the ball                                                                                            Tetiana Bulakh A Proper Dress Length for Little Girls? Soviet Taste, Girls' Innocence, and Children's Fashion in Contemporary Russia                                                            Olga Boitsova and Elena Mishanova Fictional Girls in Transition during Perestroika                                                                 Judith Inggs Organizing Girls' Groups for a Better Future: Local and Global Challenges and Solutions                                                                                   Yulia Cradskova Mapping Motherhood: Girls as Mothers in Contemporary Russia                                 Nadya Narfova Between Us Girls: On Girls' Interpretations of Sexuaiity                                                   Elena Omelchenko "Fighting is Not Pretty": Interpreting the Experience of Seif-Defense in Girls'Fights                                                                                                Flvira Arif  | 

 
		 
		 
		 
		 
	
 
 




 


