“…Girlhood studies researchers have conceptualised an academically-successful, highperforming girl identity using various terms including smart girl, successful girl, supergirl, can-do girl, future girl, and alpha girl [20,23,[36][37][38]. They argue that gifted and talented initiatives encourage students to identify as individually ambitious, competitive, selfresponsible, and self-determined [37]. As a result, current discourses about female success omit structural barriers and "invisible relations of dominance" (p. 234).…”