“This is No Time for Being Underwater”: Ableism, Rape Culture and Care Work in The Nowhere Girls

Moore, Amber; Kelley, Leah

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Title

“This is No Time for Being Underwater”: Ableism, Rape Culture and Care Work in The Nowhere Girls

Author(s)

• Moore, Amber
• Kelley, Leah

Issue Date

2024-01

Keyword(s)

• ableism
• disability
• The Nowhere Girls
• Autism
• rape culture

Abstract

This paper analyzes ableism, rape culture, and care work in Amy Reed’s The Nowhere Girls. Although this novel offers complex and diverse forms of care work by all three protagonists as they collectively mobilize anti-rape resistance and enact dynamic solidarity that is both responsive and relational, Erin’s character arguably activates the most radical employment. Calling for change in the world while also endeavoring to facilitate such change, she offers multifaceted and nuanced care work in a number of ways, including: (1) through friendship and family, (2) care for herself, and (3) creative activist care that explicitly supports other victim-survivors.

Series/Report Name or Number

Research on Diversity in Youth Literature vol. 5, issue 2

Type of Resource

text

Language

eng

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21900/j.rydl.v5i2.1159

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• Copyright 2024 Amber Moore, Leah Kelley
• This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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