{"product_id":"girlhoods-in-the-traumascape-mythili-rajiva-9780774873130","title":"Girlhoods in the Traumascape: Sexual Violence in the Everyday Lives of Young Indigenous and White Women","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA first-hand account of how girls navigate everyday sexual violence, highlighting the role that settler colonialism plays in their different experiences.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost feminist work on gendered sexual violence focuses on adult white women, and most readings of trauma interpret it in terms of past events. \u003ci\u003eGirlhoods in the Traumascape\u003c\/i\u003e sets aside both of these conventions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on the Canadian context, Mythili Rajiva argues that we don't know enough about how girls and younger women--who are the most likely to face sexual violence--interpret potentially traumatic social landscapes in which they are constantly told what \u003ci\u003ecould\u003c\/i\u003e happen to them. Nor do we understand how settler colonialism affects their experiences. In an approach informed by affect theory, girlhood studies, and Indigenous feminism, Rajiva assembled focus groups of Canadian white and Indigenous girls aged thirteen to nineteen to compare how they navigate the everyday reality of sexual violence and its discourses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith sensitivity and acuity, she lets girls reveal, in their own voices, the impacts that media messages, parental worry, school surveillance, peer interactions, potential dangers in public spaces, and the legal system have on their ways of being in the world. We need to listen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mythili Rajiva\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0774873132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780774873130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of British Columbia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/08\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Mythili Rajiva","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48743084654847,"sku":"9780774873130","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/girlhoods-in-the-traumascape-mythili-rajiva-9780774873130","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}