| Abstract | This chapter explores some of the ethical implications and complexities of writing about girlhood in memoir, autoethnography and collective biography. While recognizing that ‘the girl’ can be understood theoretically as ‘an assemblage of social and cultural issues and questions rather than a field of physical facts’ (Driscoll, 2008, p. 14), as a ‘cultural, historical and social phenomenon that is shaped by social policies and institutions’ (Gonick & Gannon, 2014), this chapter turns to narrative ‘empirical’ accounts of country girlhood n a dialogue with Driscoll’s The Australian Country Girl: History, Image, Experience (2014). It assembles narrative vignettes of girlhood memory in [...]
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