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While these early works were necessary to explore the 21 possibilities for and the presence or invisibility of girls and gender within SDP, 22 we offer three suggestions for the next phase of SDP research in an attempt to 23 encourage new considerations.
We 27 begin by establishing the larger context of our chapter and then provide brief 28 explanations of the three points listed above. We believe that this chapter will 29 take SDP research beyond discussions of girl power and the Girl Effect and into 30 the important next phase of research on, with, and about girls in SDP. As Gonick considers how these distinct discourses operate in a neolib- 2 eral era, she recognizes that positioning them in opposition is misleading.
We recog- 8 nize a similar overlap as we seek to identify the complex ways in which celebra- 9 tions, regulations, and anxieties about girlhood are enacted within the SDP 10 movement. This occurs through both deliberate articulations of the possibilities 11 of personal empowerment through sport for girls around the world, within pro- 12 jects such as Moving the GoalpostsβKilii, Go Sisters in Zambia and the GOAL 13 project in India and elsewhere.
It also occurs through the more recent uptake of 14 the Girl Effect mission, which positions girls as catalysts for local, community, 15 and global change. We argue that both discourses serve to support the premise 16 that sport can empower girls both to better themselves girl power and to better 17 the world within which they live Girl Effect.
