1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 5 Beyond girl power and the Girl Effect The girling of sport for development and peace Megan Chawansky and Marisa Schlenker Overview In this chapter, we seek to stimulate new considerations of girls, girlhood and the girling of SDP (Chawansky and Hayhurst, 2015) in order to move research and writing beyond the important mapping exercises and overview essays that dominated the irst phase of work within the sport for development and peace (SDP) sector (Brady, 1998, 2005; Brady and Khan, 2002; Saavedra, 2009; Meier, 2005; Kidd and Donnelly, 2007; Chawansky, 2011; Hillyer et al., 2011; Hancock et al., 2013). While these early works were necessary to explore the possibilities for and the presence (or invisibility) of girls and gender within SDP, we offer three suggestions for the next phase of SDP research in an attempt to encourage new considerations. These three suggestions are: the adoption of girls’ studies as a theoretical lens; increased critical analysis of popular representations of girls within international development and SDP; and the utilization of larger conceptual reference points for understanding girls and their experiences. We begin by establishing the larger context of our chapter and then provide brief explanations of the three points listed above. We believe that this chapter will take SDP research beyond discussions of girl power and the Girl Effect and into the important next phase of research on, with, and about girls in SDP. Introduction The title of this chapter references insights on neoliberal girlhoods from an article entitled, “Between girl power and reviving Ophelia” wherein Gonick (2006) explores the synergies between two iconic discourses of young, Western femininity in the 1990s – that of “girl power” and “reviving Ophelia.” While “girl power” is a contested concept, especially in terms of its usefulness in girls’ and women’s sport (Cooky, 2010) it is commonly understood to offer direct challenges to the “passivity, voicelessness, vulnerability and sweet naturedness linked to some forms of raced and classed girlhoods” (Aapola et al., 2005, p. 19). Reviving Ophelia is the title of Mary Piper’s (1994) inluential book, which sought to highlight the “everyday dangers of being young and female” and called for age-appropriate responses to the sexism experienced by young 536_05_Beyond Sport.indd 94 3/8/15 14:56:12