Editor's Introduction

This special issue of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth is devoted to the history of girlhoods and the girling of work, play, and performance. Our guest editors, Miriam Forman-Brunell and Diana W. Anselmo, are prestigious scholars whose academic and activist contributions to the field of the cultural representations of girlhood are well known to members of the Society of the History of Childhood and Youth and the global academic community. Forman-Brunell's Guest Editor's Introduction will offer more details and context about the issue.

As this issue goes to press, many members of the SHCY are preparing for the biannual conference at Australian Catholic University, North Sydney. The SHCY looks forward to building on the 2019 conference theme, "Encounters and Exchanges," and the potential for scholars of children and youth to establish impactful dialogs within and beyond academia. This will be the SHCY's tenth biannual conference and it will offer panels, roundtables, workshops, and papers that explore histories of children and youth across diverse chronological or geographical settings. For researchers interested in the history of girlhood, I would encourage you to follow SHCY's Girls' History & Culture Network. The aims are to foster conversation, communication, and collaboration among scholars, museum professionals, teachers, activists, students, and others interested in girl-focused research, teaching, publishing, pedagogy, policy, and politics. More information can be found on the SHCY website or join the Girls' History & Culture Network Facebook group.