It became an official journal of the International Girls Studies Association (IGSA) in 2019.

The journal discusses girlhood from the perspective of a broad range of fields including education, health, media studies, and literary studies.

The editor-in-chief is Claudia Mitchell (McGill University).

Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal received the award of Best New Journal in the Social Sciences & Humanities from the Association of American Publishers in 2009.

[1] The journal led to the establishment of a complementary book series, Transnational Girlhoods, in 2019, also published by Berghahn.