Review: A Girl Can Do: Recognizing and Representing Girlhood, edited by Tiffany R. Isselhardt

Book Review| May 01 2024 Review: A Girl Can Do: Recognizing and Representing Girlhood, edited by Tiffany R. Isselhardt A Girl Can Do: Recognizing and Representing Girlhood edited by Tiffany R. Isselhardt. Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2022. 272 pp. ; illustrations, notes, index; clothbound, 119. 00, paperback, 52. 00, eBook, 96. 00. Monica L. Mercado Monica L. Mercado Colgate University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar The Public Historian (2024) 46 (2): 194–196. https: //doi. org/10. 1525/tph. 2024. 46. 2. 194 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures Review: A Girl Can Do: Recognizing and Representing Girlhood, edited by Tiffany R. Isselhardt. The Public Historian 1 May 2024; 46 (2): 194–196. doi: https: //doi. org/10. 1525/tph. 2024. 46. 2. 194 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentThe Public Historian Search A flourishing academic field of Girlhood Studies—with its own journal and the support of a growing cohort of interdisciplinary scholars examining gender, childhood, and youth—has taken shape over the last twenty years. As the announcement of a new Girlhood Studies Collective out of Rutgers University-Newark asked in 2022, what does it mean to invoke "the girl" as the central subject of research and inquiry? It is a question ripe for public historians to answer. Similar questions drive the work of public historian Tiffany R. Isselhardt, a writer for the website Girl Museum (www. girlmuseum. org), whose edited volume A Girl Can Do: Recognizing and Representing Girlhood emerged from preparations for the 2020 National Council on Public History annual meeting. Building from her panel's focus on "Remembering American Girlhood, " Isselhardt draws together essays from thirteen contributors representing the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Indigenous communities across North and. . . You do not currently have access to this content.