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dc.contributor.authorWalters, Rosie*
dc.contributor.editorSweetman, Caroline
dc.date.accessioned2018-11-09T11:13:39Z
dc.date.available2018-11-09T11:13:39Z
dc.date.issued2018-11-14
dc.identifier.issn1355-2074
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13552074.2018.1523287
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10546/620589
dc.description<html> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> <p>The United Nations Foundation&#8217;s Girl Up campaign has been criticised by many feminists for perpetuating patronising discourses that see girls and women in the Global North as the saviours of their counterparts in the South, while doing little to challenge underlying global inequalities. This article draws on focus group data with Girl Up club members in the UK, USA and Malawi, and explores how they are adapting the aims of the campaign to better fit their own vision of empowerment. From girls in New York attending women&#8217;s marches together to girls in a township of Lilongwe marching to their friends&#8217; parents&#8217; houses to demand that they send their daughters to school, the girls have shown courage and creativity, their actions rejecting discourses of empowered Northern saviours and passive Southern girls in need of rescue. This article explores the agency with which girls negotiate discourses emerging from powerful international institutions, and puts forward the argument that these girls deserve recognition as feminist activists who are adapting campaigns, such as Girl Up, in order to challenge the many and complex injustices that they face in their own communities and globally.</p> </body> </html>en_US
dc.format.extent16en_US
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherOxfam GBen_US
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_US
dc.relation.urlhttp://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/reading-girls-participation-in-girl-up-as-feminist-club-members-activism-in-the-620589
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.titleReading girls' participation in Girl Up as feminist: club members' activism in the UK, USA and Malawien_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.identifier.eissn1364-9221
dc.identifier.journalGender & Developmenten_US
oxfam.signoff.statusFor public use. Can be shared outside Oxfamen_US
oxfam.subject.countryMalawien_US
oxfam.subject.countryUnited Kingdomen_US
oxfam.subject.countryUnited Statesen_US
oxfam.subject.keywordGirlsen_US
oxfam.subject.keywordUnited Nationsen_US
oxfam.subject.keywordGirl poweren_US
oxfam.subject.keywordActivismen_US
oxfam.subject.keywordFeminismen_US
prism.issuenameYoung Feminismsen_US
prism.number3en_US
prism.volume26en_US


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