Titlebook: Nordic Girlhoods; New Perspectives and Bodil Formark,Heta Mulari,Myry Voipio Book 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), und

Infusion

Explosive Self-Confident Femininity: Experienced and Remembered Girl Energy,, Heta Mulari and Myry Voipio analyze a sample of adult women’s experiences of being adolescents during the most intensive years of Finnish girl energy. The chapter focuses on three key themes through which the informants remembered the phenomenon: femininity, gender equality, and friendship.

Debrief

Grin and Bear It! Downplaying Sexual Harassment as Part of Nordic Girlhood,irls have to deal with when they are reacting to or downplaying unwanted heterosexual behaviour in the context of the Nordic understanding of gender equality. Tolerance, a notion arising from the research data, is used in the chapter to capture the agentic ambivalence of girls in relation to being targets of sexual harassment.

Microgram

Outlook: Girlhood, Agency, and Embodied Space for Action,girls’ agency, particularly sexual agency, as it is lived. There may be, however, untapped potential in further working with the concepts of embodied space for action and situated agency, employing both alongside an intersectional perspective that pays attention to how a hierarchy of worth situates girls in relation to each other.