“Red Feather Journal invites critical and/or theoretical examination of the child to further our understanding of the circulation, consumption, and representation of the child throughout a variety of mediums within popular discourse.”

“Contributors are particularly encouraged to consider how their empirical insights into children’s leisure and childhood leisure cultures can illuminate broader questions around leisure, consumption, power, social change, child-adult relations and children’s social status at both local and global scales.”

“Red Feather Journal invites critical and/or theoretical examination of the child to further our understanding of the circulation, consumption, and representation of the child throughout a variety of mediums within popular discourse.”

“The key questions that inform this special issue build on those that informed the creation of this journal: What is girlhood studies? How do we do girlhood studies? What is the relationship between women’s studies and girlhood studies? What is the relationship between girlhood studies and boyhood and masculinity studies?”

“[T]his collection aims to interrogate the child’s role in contemporary films and television that wallow in the aftermath and widespread devastation of world-wide disaster: nuclear war, alien invasion, ecological collapse, biological catastrophe, technological or cyber disasters, or divine judgment.”