Introduction: Witnessing Girlhood | 1
1. Girls in Crisis: Feminist Resistance in Life Writing by Women of Color | 13
2. Gender Pessimism and Survivor Storytelling in the Memoir Boom:
Girl, Interrupted, Autobiography of a Face, and Nanette | 38
3. Visualizing Sexual Violence and Feminist Child Witness:
A Child’s Life and Other Stories and Becoming Unbecoming | 63
4. Teaching Dissent through Picture Books:
Girlhood Activism and Graphic Life Writing for the Child | 86
Epilogue. Twenty-First-Century Formations: Child Witness, Trans Life Writing, and Futurity | 101
Acknowledgments | 113
Notes | 115
Index | 141