Girlhood
Volume 42, Number 2
January-February 2021
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Christine Hume and Christina Milletti’s Introduction to Focus: Girlhood
Laura Larson reviews Justine Kurland’s Girl Pictures
Aisha Sabatini Sloan interviews Gabrielle Civil in “Girlhood under Quarantine”
Susan McCarty reviews Susan Steinberg’s Machine: A Novel
Judith Goldman reviews Samantha Giles’s Total Recall
Christine Imperial reviews Barbara Jane Reyes Letters to a Young Brown Girl
Elizabeth Currans reviews Carly Usdin and Nina Vakueva’s Heavy Vinyl: Y2K-O!
Rosie Stockton reviews T Fleischmann’s Time Is the Thing a Body Moves Through: An Essay
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