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Nuke Traumatic Experience in Nuclear Fiction for Young Adults : symposium materials  \nSukhenko, Inna  \n2023-03-29  \n[http://hdl.handle.net/10138/357364](http://hdl.handle.net/10138/357364)  \nSukhenko, I 2023, 'Conceptualizing ‘Nuke’ Girlhood: Literary Dimensions of Girls’ Nuke Traumatic Experience in Nuclear Fiction for Young Adults : symposium materials', The Girl in Theory: Toward a Critical Girlhood Studies Symposium, Camden, United States, 29 /03/2023-31/03/2023 pp. 17-18.  \nDownloaded from Helda, University of Helsinki institutional repository. [https://helda.helsinki.fi](https://helda.helsinki.fi)[ ](https://helda.helsinki.fi)[This is an electronic reprint of the original article.](This is an electronic reprint of the original article.)  \nThis reprint may differ from the original in pagination and typographic detail.  \nPlease cite the original version.  \nt h e g i r l h o o d st u d i e s c o l l e ct iv e  \np r es e nts  \nThe Girl in Theory: Toward a Critical Girlhood Studies Symposium  \nMarch 29th-31st, 2023 virtual  \nOff i c i a l P r o g r a m G u i d e  \nThe Girl in Theory:  \nToward a Critical Girlhood Studies Symposium Hosted by the Department of Childhood Studies and the Gender Studies Program at  \nRutgers University, Camden – USA  \nThis symposium invited exploration of what it means to theorize through and with the girl and the category of girlhood. Well beyond the boundaries of “girlhood studies,” the girl often lurks where she is not an explicit subject of inquiry. As a figure enmeshed in processes of racial capitalism, colonialism, and carcerality, how might the girl inform visions of, and struggles for, transformation and liberation? In joining ongoing critical conversations in the field of Black girlhood studies and beyond, the symposium positions critical girlhood studies as a viable field that has much to offer contemporary modes of thought and inquiry.  \nThis symposium centers critical conversations on the generative tensions and future possibilities of scholarship on girls and girlhoods. What does it mean to invoke “the girl”as the central subject of research and inquiry? In an ever-shifting landscape of gender politics that push beyond binary categories and narrow identities, what does the category of “the girl” have to offer critical research? How are scholars attending to shifting definitions of “the girl” and “girlhood”? And how might these generative tensions push the field of girlhood studies in new, critical directions? 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