NWSA Assignment

I feel that these three publications, “Blue Jean, Being Seen and Heard, and Hunger, Poverty and 12 Year Old Girls are related to girls leadership in different ways.  The Blue Jean magazine is a magazine that builds on empowering teen girls through enabling them with leadership opportunities by way of enabling them an avenue to publish works (Blue Jean 2011). Being Seen and Heard is an article that describes how girl’s leadership and their freedom is being taken away from them by the new spotlight they are receiving and their private sphere becoming increasingly less private (Harris 2004). The online social networks, web cams, and reality networks are enabling girls to share things that once were considered taboo to be normal (Harris 2004). Hunger, Poverty and 12 Year Old Girls is an article that discusses how girls in other countries are forced because of financial straits to a life of early adulthood (Smith 2011).

The author of this article is in a campaign that provides girls with the resources so they can stay young girls and advance into adulthood with a leg up on their futures to being productive members of society (Smith 2011). These three different articles discuss different ways that girl’s leadership is being put into practice throughout the world. To help us understand girl’s leadership we can look into the studies and research on girls to help us draw conclusions on ways to truly understand what it is for girls to have leadership and then facilitating that leadership.

Books like Future Girl and the different discourses that we’ve read can help us understand what girls leadership needs to grow and flourish and what needs to be changed so that girl’s leadership can continue to grow as a discipline and help girls worldwide that would over-wise not have a voice. A stake for girl’s leadership would be that it needs to have multiple avenues and resources to proceed so that it can continue to develop and thrive in the upcoming generations.

Word Count: 361

Work Cited:

Cydney Smith. Hunger, Poverty and 12 Year Old Girls?Mompreneur Wellness.2011. Online Publication. http://www.mompreneurwellness.com/thegirleffect/

Empowering Teen Girls. Blue Jean Publishing. Blue Jean: What Young Women are Thinking, Saying, and Doing. 2011. http://bluejeanpublishing.com/10.html

Harris, Anita. Future Girl. New York: Routledge, 2004. Print.