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Bachel, Beverly K. What Do You Really Want? How to Set a Goal and Go for It
Would you like to start a new habit or break an old one? Make the team? Make new friends? Get better grades? Get a summer job? Travel? Go to college? Change the world for the better? Is there something else you really want? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you have a goal. If you don't know how to reach it, or you think you need help, this book is for you.
Dee, Catherine. The Girls' Book of Success.
This book signifies every success story that serves as an inspiration to all teenagers. It helps adolescents battle their fears and finally guides them on the road to confidence. By listing stories and providing quotes about success, teens who read the book, can identify themselves with the people they read about and aspire to become like them.
Gravelle, Karen & Jennifer. The Period Book: Everything You Don’t Want to Ask (But Need to Know)
The Period Books: Everything You Don't Want To Ask (But Need To Know) is a reassuring must-read for every girl about to have her period and every parent wishing to prepare a daughter for this important milestone. While a first period can be an unsettling experience, girls can feel confident about this new stage of their lives if they know what to expect. With clarity and sensitivity, Karen Gravelle and her teenage niece, Jennifer Gravelle, explore the physical, emotional, and social aspects of menstruation. In a supportive and practical voice, they provide answers to the questions girls have about their period and related topics, such as pimples, mood swings, and increasing social pressures. Debbie Palen's illustrations provide a touch of humor, and encourage girls to consider the changes their bodies are undergoing as an exciting adventure. (2 copies available)
Green, Karen and Tristan Taormino, (editors). A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World
In the last decade, there has been an explosion in the production of 'zines. On the forefront of this cut-and-paste revolution have been those 'zines made specifically by and for young women. The words and images that have come to define many young women's lives have long been overlooked and under appreciated. A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World exists because these voices refuse to be silenced.
Levy, Barrie. In Love and In Danger: A Teen's Guide to Breaking Free of Abusive Relationship.
Citing sobering statistics about teen abuse by peers, a guide for young adults on how to manage abusive dating relationships offers insight into the causes and consequences of physical and psychological abuse as well as dating violence, in a reference that counsels both victims and abusers on how to find help.
Lewis, Barbara A. The Kid’s Guide to Social Action
This resource includes: real stories about real kids who are making a difference as home and around the world, step-by-step guides to social action “power skills,” ideas for working with government, real social action tools, and an up-to-date resource guide with addresses, phone numbers, and Websites for other social action groups.
Loulan, JoAnn and Bonnie Worthen. Period. A Girl's Guide.
A Girl's Guide by JoAnn Loulan and Bonnie Worthen, first published in 1979 and newly revised and updated, thoroughly covers questions about puberty and menstruation. The authors emphasize the positive (e.g., "Being comfortable with your own body is important") and use diagrams to familiarize readers with the inner workings of their bodies, including what happens during menstruation. A question-and-answer format in the last three chapters allows girls to locate easily the information they seek.
Macauinta, Courtney and Andrea Vanderpluym. Respect: A Girl's Guide to Getting Respect and Dealing When Your Line is Crossed.
Authors Macavinta and Vander Pluym provide talking points for discussion and personal introspection on topics ranging from friends to family to the opposite sex to body image and self-image. The book is not a guide about what to think or do, but a template for drafting one's own guidelines and ethos. The authors continually recommend that young readers keep a journal and use specific topics and questions as launching points for making entries in the journal.
Monson-Burton, Marianne. Girls Know Best 2: Tips On Life and Fun Stuff To Do.
Girls Know Best 2 is a celebration of your power--girl power! The book salutes your unique opinions and experience, ages 7-15, from all over the country, were picked from our "Girl Writer Contest" because of their great ideas. These amazing girls have written chapters giving advice on things like shyness, the Internet, making money, and slumber parties. They've also written chapters with fun activities like how to analyze your dreams, redecorate your room, and even the best way to survive grounding! Everything you need to know from the people who really know the answers--girls just like you!
Monson-Burton, Marianne. Girls Know Best 3: Your Words, Your World.
Both girls and critics have embraced this series of advice-giving books that encourage girls to explore their creativity and follow their dreams. Girls Know Best 3 continues the fun with chapters on being an only child, standing up for oneself, making a difference, livening up dreaded school subjects, reading for enjoyment, and relieving boredom.
New Moon. Friendship: Stories, Poems, Interviews, Advice
Friends: they’re a big part of your life, and most of the time they’re great, but sometimes difficult situations can arise. This book is here to help you with the ups and downs of friendship. Filled with quizzes, ideas for gifts, questions and answers from real girls, and straightforward information, this collection will inspire you to enjoy the friends you have and to forge new friendships.
New Moon. Money.
Grade 4-8-Created by 9 girls ranging from ages 10 to 14 (the New Moon Books Girls Editorial Board), this book features advice about how to earn money and includes basic information about currency and how to spend and invest wisely. The text is supplemented by interviews with women and girls who have created business opportunities based on their interests as well as by stories and poems written by adolescent girls. Throughout, young women are encouraged to follow their dreams and take control of their financial futures through entrepreneurial opportunities such as pet care, baking or cleaning services, craft sales, etc. The final chapter lists numerous print and electronic resources for more information.
New Moon. Sports: Choosing the Right Sport for You
Ever wonder what it would be like to learn to surf, or what it feels like to be the only woman playing on the Harlem Globetrotters? The New Moon Books Girls Editorial Board has scoured the world to find out about all sorts of different sports and the girls who are doing them. This book is filled with information on why sports are good for girls, the benefits of competition, a brief history of women in sports, and information about keeping your body healthy.
New Moon. Writing: Tips on Improving Your Writing and How to Express Yourself!
Is there a writer inside you struggling to get out? Do you want to do more than just write in your journal? Know what a tanka is? Curious about writing your own ‘zine but aren’t sure where to get started? This book is filled with ideas on how to get started and how to use words to express your ideas.
Rimm, Sylvia. See Jane Win for Girls: A Smart Girls Guide to Success –
Have you ever seen successful omen and wondered, “How did they get to be that way? What did they do when they were kids? How did they feel? What kinds of experiences did they have? How did they become so confidant, capable, and strong?” Dr. Sylvia Rimm had the same questions and decided to get answers. She and her daughters surveyed more than 1000 successful women, and compiled a resource to help young girls shape their future.
Roehm, Michelle. Girls Know Best: Advice for Girls from Girls on Just About Everything.
The result of a "Girl Writer Contest" publicized in dozens of magazines and newspapers and designed to nurture the creativity and daring of girls six to 16, this book contains the fresh, honest, one-to-one writings of 38 winners from throughout North America.
Romanek, Trudee. The Technology Book for Girls and Other Advanced Beings
Gr 3-6-Focusing specifically on the fun aspects, this book succeeds at showing how relevant science and technology are in the world in which we live, and tries to entice girls to explore the many possibilities in the field. Beginning at home with the television remote, the smoke detector, automatic doors, and automatic hand dryers, the author explains the intricate details of how these items actually work and the science involved. Further information covers lasers at the library checkout desk; in CD players and holograms; and those involved in manufacturing, medicine, space exploration, fiber optics, and many other related topics. The book is carefully organized, progressing through everyday items as they appear in readers' lives. Each chapter begins with a dialogue between a student and her friend or relative about the topic. More in-depth explanation follows, with a suggested activity. Sidebars introduce women who have interesting related careers. Attractive drawings, diagrams, and pictures add appeal. An index and a page of ideas for science-fair projects conclude the book. A good choice to show girls how exciting the world of technology can be.
Torres, Laura. Friendship Bracelets.
The ultimate friendship bracelet book, with directions for designs ranging from simple to simply amazing. The back cover doubles as a clipboard (clip included) so bracelets can be made directly beside their instructions. Comes with supplies to make at least one bracelet for each of your 12 closest friends.
Weston, Carol. GirlTalk: All the Stuff Your Sister Never Told You: No Soapboxes, No Sermons, No Nonsense
From bra shopping to babysitting, from making close friends to making great grades, Girltalk has all the answers Upbeat and up-to-date, honest and hip, Girltalk is an "indispensable guide" (Working Mother) for girls ages eleven to eighteen. This Fourth Edition is the ultimate preteen and teen source for advice on: Body: looking and feeling your best Friendship: you don't like everybody -- why should everybody like you? Love: falling in, falling out Sex: what you should know before saying yes Family: making the best of your nest Education: getting through school, getting into college Money: making it, saving it, spending it Smoking, Drinking, and Drugs: advice without lectures Quizzes: getting to know yourself
Wilson, Stacy. The Hockey Book for Girls
Although there are several titles about women's hockey for older readers and adults, this is one of the few for this age group. Wilson, a former captain of Canada's Olympic Women's Hockey Team, offers a broad introduction to the sport, touching on the game's positions, rules, strategies, and off-ice training. She also includes spotlights and interviews with star players. With brief, scattered text and energizing color photos, this is probably best for young girls who are new to the game and want an overview rather than in-depth coverage.
Wyatt, Valerie. The Science Book for Girls and Other Intelligent Beings
Studies show that many girls' natural interest in science falls off during the preteen years. In an effort to keep girls tuned in to science, this book demonstrates that science is fun--and that it's for girls. It gives girls a positive and non-threatening look at science and science careers--although there's nothing stopping "other intelligent begins" from taking a peek, too! Full color.
Wyatt, Valerie. The Math Book for Girls and Other Beings Who Count
Using lively, conversational prose, abundant humor, and Nora ("Natural Observation Research Activator," a sort of fairy godmother in a lab coat), Wyatt presents some of math's more entertaining and practical sides. Concepts such as proportion, area, and tessellation are conveyed through text, cheerful art, and diverse activities, including problems and such intriguing crafts as graphing pizza-topping requests. The material is well organized and accessible, with sidebars quoting.
Asetoyer, Charon M.A. (editor). Indigenous Women's Health Book, Within the Sacred Circle. .
The Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center presents this book to encourage Native women to take charge of their own health, and to offer all women a comprehensive new vision of health care choices and information.
Benson, Lorri Antosz and Taryn Leigh Benson. Distorted.
In an epidemic culture of disordered eating, this is the first book to provide both sides of the story: alternating mother-daughter perspectives on one teens battle with anorexia and bulimia, examining the nitty-gritty relationship dynamics and the many manipulative nuances that personify this misunderstood disease.
Berry, Dawn Bradley. The Domestic Violence Sourcebook
A comprehensive, compassionate look at domestic violence--including historical, psychological, social, familial, and legal issues--this well-organized, accessible book offers the most current information available on prevention and recovery, along with practical steps for escaping a violent domestic situation.
Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture and the Body
In this provocative book, Susan Bordo untangles the myths, ideologies, and pathologies of the modern female body. Bordo explores our tortured fascination with food, hunger, desire, and control, and its effects on women's lives.
The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective. Our Bodies, Ourselves: A New Edition For a New Era With more than four million copies sold, Our Bodies, Ourselves is the classic resource that women of all ages can turn to for information about every aspect of their well-being.Completely revised for the first time in a decade, these pages give women everything they need for making key decisions about their health from definitive information from today's leading experts to personal stories from other women just like them. Together with its companion website (www.ourbodiesourselves.org), Our Bodies, Ourselves is a one-stop resource for women of all generations. Plus: The rearranged food pyramid, a chapter about sexual orientation and gender identity, advice for making safer sex more fun, the latest on breast-feeding, support for women experiencing pregnancy loss, and a section devoted to getting the best care in today's complicated health care system.
The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective. Our Bodies, Ourselves For the New Century
Our Bodies, Ourselves for the New Century reflects the vital health concerns of women of diverse ages, ethnic and racial backgrounds, and sexual orientations. In these pages, women will find new information, resources (including web sites!), and personal support for the decisions that will shape their health -- and their lives -- from living a healthy life, to relationships and sexuality, to child-bearing, growing older, dealing with the medical system, and organizing for change. This is a book for women of all generations to use, to rely on, and to share with others.
The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective. Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth
For years Our Bodies, Ourselves
has provided readers with indispensable information on women's health and sexuality. Now we have brought the same knowledge and perspective to our new book on childbirth.By drawing on the most accurate research, the personal experiences of many individual women, and the advice of midwives, physicians, and other health care providers, Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth will help you navigate the many choices you face during this exciting and challenging time.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
A hundred years ago, women were lacing themselves into corsets and teaching their daughters to do the same. The ideal of the day, however, was inner beauty: a focus on good deeds and a pure heart. Today American women have more social choices and personal freedom than ever before. But fifty-three percent of our girls are dissatisfied with their bodies by the age of thirteen, and many begin a pattern of weight obsession and dieting as early as eight or nine. Why? In The Body Project, historian Joan Jacobs Brumberg answers this question, drawing on diary excerpts and media images from 1830 to the present. Tracing girls' attitudes toward topics ranging from breast size and menstruation to hair, clothing, and cosmetics, she exposes the shift from the Victorian concern with inner beauty to our modern focus on outward appearance--in particular, the desire to be model-thin and sexy. Compassionate, insightful, and gracefully written, The Body Project explores the gains and losses adolescent girls have inherited since they shed the corset and the ideal of virginity for a new world of sexual freedom and consumerism--a world in which the body is their primary project.
Chapkis, Wendy. Beauty Secrets: Women and the Politics of Appearance
This book explores the links between appearance and sexuality, and looks at how race, class and economics help shape images of beauty. Included are interviews with and photographs of women who share their own ‘beauty secrets’.
Costin, Carolyn. The Eating Disorder Sourcebook: A Comprehensive Guide to the Causes, Treatments, and Prevention of Eating Disorders
This new edition provides the most up-to-date information on the possible underlying causes of eating disorders and their treatments, as well as information on recognizing disordered eating patterns in yourself or a loved one. A complete overview of treatment options, including group therapy, one-on-one counseling, the uses of medication, and inpatient treatment, is provided, along with a thorough listing of treatment centers and other resources around the country.
Dipion, Vicki Edgson and Ian Marter Dipion. The Food Doctor: Healing Foods for Mind and Body.
Now fully revised and updated, this edition of the ever-popular guide to eating well has all the latest research, new and inspiring recipes, and an entire chapter on eating for one’s individual metabolic body type and lifestyle. Written by two nutritionists, the pages are packed with nutrition advice, case studies, and food cures. Find simple foods with amazing healing properties; check out the definitive list of the top 100 foods for health, vitality and happiness.
Doress, Paula Brown, Diana Laskin Siegal, The Midlife, Older Women Book Project. Ourselves, Growing Older
Following in the ground-breaking tradition of Our Bodies, Ourselves, Paula B. Doress-Worters and Diana Laskin Siegel address the needs of the growing number of women over the age of forty. This new and revised edition of the best-selling Ourselves, Growing Older includes new chapters on menopause and reform of the medical care system as well as extensive updates on housing issues, HIV/AIDS, cosmetic surgery, and breast cancer.
Fraser, Laura. Losing it: False Hopes and Fat Profits in the Diet Industry
A reformed dieter and a former bulimic, Laura Fraser traces our fixation with thinness to the images that began appearing a hundred years ago in magazines like Ladies Home Journal and Cosmopolitan. Fraser chronicles the corresponding growth of a $50 billion a year industry that provides false hope in exchange for cash. In this meticulously researched journey through Dietland, Fraser gives the inside scoop on diet drugs, including the controversial phen/fen, diet gurus Richard Simmons, Susan Powter, and Dean Ornish, commercial weight loss centers, including Jenny Craig and Weight Watchers, and weight loss products like thigh creams and diet cookies
Gaesser, Glenn. Big Fat Lies: The Truth About Your Weight and Your Health
In this authoritative, easy-to-read book, Glenn Gaesser, an exercise physiologist, challenges the conventional wisdom that excess body fat poses a danger to health. He explains that it is the fat in your diet — not your weight — that is harmful, and presents scientific evidence of the benefits of body fat. In addition, Gaesser presents a “20/20 program” for achieving optimal health and metabolic fitness through 20 minutes of daily moderate exercise and a complex-carbohydrate eating plan. This edition includes a new introduction and updated research. “Challenges the common beliefs that ‘thin is best’ and ‘weight loss improves health.
Goodman, W. Charisse. The Invisible Woman: Confronting Weight Prejudice in America
This intelligent, political, feminist treatise explores the all-pervasive prejudice against fat women. It is about shattering the stereotypes, raising awareness about harassment, and asserting the truth that no one has the right to discriminate against anyone based on their size! Goodman exposes our culture’s widely accepted hatred of fat women, from the "health police" who feel that it is their right to approach and criticize strangers about their weight, health, or appearance, to the mass media who perpetuate inappropriate standards of beauty. The Invisible Woman also discusses weight obsession, false assumptions about diet and exercise, the fear and loathing of fat women as sexual beings, disturbing similarities between the aesthetic ideals of the Nazis and America’s quiet extermination of heavy women, and an open letter to men who think fat women are ugly.
Gottlieb, Lori. Stick Figure: A Diary of My Former Self
From the diaries she kept as an 11-year-old, the author's wry, perceptive account of her near-fatal struggle with anorexia nervosa is told with an unguarded openness not seen since Susanna Kaysen's "Girl Interrupted". Martin Scorsese's company, Carpo Productions, has purchased movie rights to Gottlieb's journal.
Jarrell, Donna and Sukrungruang Ira. What Are You Looking At?: The First Fat Fiction Anthology.
Jarrell and Sukrungruang offer an eclectic anthology of thirty stories and poems that foregrounds fat bodies. This collection is particularly refreshing given the recent backlash against fat acceptance, which has resulted in the discontinuation of fat-centric magazines, the closing of plus-size clothing stores, and popular culture's continuing love affair with ever-smaller actors and models.
Kater, Kathy. Real Kids Come in All Sizes: 10 Essential Lessons to Build Your Child's Self Esteem.
At a time when they should feel secure in their body’s growth, too many American children become anxious about size and weight and begin to eat in ways that contribute to the very problems they hope to avoid. Obesity, negative body image, and eating disorders are extremely difficult to reverse once established, and can be devastating to the self-esteem of developing bodies and egos.Long overdue, Real Kids Come in All Sizes challenges the toxic myths that promote body-image and weight concerns in our culture.
Maine, Margo, PhD. and Joe Kelly. The Body Myth: Adult Women and the Pressure to be Perfect.
In the relatively short history of eating and body image disorders treatment, the overwhelming majority of patients have been teenage girls and young women. But now, clinical psychologists like Dr. Margo Maine are treating increasing numbers of women in their 30s, 40s, 50s, and beyond suffering from disordered eating or the preoccupation with achieving a perfect body.This unique, jargon-free guide helps women and their loved ones understand these obsessions, what lies behind them, and how to overcome them!
Manheim, Camryn. Wake Up, I’m Fat!
This memoir is by turns funny ("If Barbie were a real woman, she'd have to walk on all fours due to her proportions") and excruciating. It helps that the material was honed in a one-woman show that sold out at New York's big-deal Public Theater, but the subject matter was strange and interesting in the first place. Manheim could not possibly be a less likely candidate for artistic and commercial success on TV. Born Debi Manheim in Peoria, the very metaphor for mainstream culture, Manheim re-created herself as a dozen earringed California biker chick, a Renaissance Faire wench, a protester who helped drive the Miss California Pageant out of Santa Cruz, and one of 28 actors in America accepted at NYU's exclusive graduate school. In her book, Manheim gets even with her cruel, fat-bashing teachers; credits the director who gave her, her first ingénue lead role (Tony Kushner, who cast her in Fen); and tells how the same temper that got her booted from school and arrested also won her the TV role that made her name.
Molnar, Judy. You Don't Have to be Thin to Win.
One of the best and practical books on fitness and health. This book is the recommended book by DietBuddies. 'You Don't Have to Be Thin to Win' is Judy's special recipe for health and fitness. She shows you everything from how to buy sneakers and how to find a way to move that works for your body and your time constraints to how to get through a grocery store and come out with foods that will make you a winner. And Judy is inspiring: Even if you feel that getting your body in shape is impossible, her story and many of the poignant success stories from her work will get you off the couch and moving. It will make a great gift for those struggling to stay healthy.
Moore, Judith. Fat Girl: A True Story.
A nonfiction She's Come Undone, Fat Girl is a powerfully honest and compulsively readable memoir of obsession with food, and with one's body, penned by a Guggenheim and NEA award-winning writer.
For any woman who has ever had a love/hate relationship with food and with how she looks; for anyone who has knowingly or unconsciously used food to try to fill the hole in his heart or soothe the craggy edges of his psyche, Fat Girl is a brilliantly rendered, angst-filled coming-of-age story of gain and loss. From the lush descriptions of food that call to mind the writings of M. F. K. Fisher at her finest, to the heartbreaking accounts of Moore's deep longing for a family and a sense of belonging and love, Fat Girl stuns and shocks, saddens and tickles.
Pamplona-Roger M.D., George. Encyclopedia of Foods and Their Healing Power.
This is a modern and concise encyclopedia that presents the latest research on food science, nutrition, and dietetics. With almost 700 foods from 5 continents described and around 300 recipes, the information contained in this encyclopedia is based on the latest research centers of Europe, America, and other continents. 1,278 pages in three volumes, hardcover.
Thompson, Becky. A Hunger so Wide and So Deep: A Multiracial View of Women's Eating Problems
2 A readable account based on interviews with 18 White, Latina, and African American women aged 19-46 in which the author found that in one-third to two-thirds of the cases, eating disorders were linked to emotional or, more particularly, sexual abuse. Such women are seeking control over their lives, Thompson argues, and food is the most accessible tool. She also examines the healing process, detailing these women's experiences with Alcoholics Anonymous, Overeaters Anonymous and individual counseling.
Wann, Marilyn. Fat!So?:Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size!
In this hilarious and eye-opening book, fat and proud activist/zinester Marilyn Wann takes on America's biggest fear--worse than the fear of public speaking or nuclear weapons--the fear of fat.
Weitz, Rose. Rapunzel’s Daughters: What Women’s Hair Tells Us About Women's Lives.
For any woman -- or man, for that matter -- who has ever had a bad hair day, Rapunzel’s Daughters is a must-read. Author Rose Weitz, a professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, has written a fascinating and intriguing book about hair and its power to define a woman’s identity and create a cultural statement far beyond even what fashion and makeup can achieve.
Wolf, Naomi. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women.
In a country where the average woman is 5-foot-4 and weighs 140 pounds, movies, advertisements, and MTV saturate our lives with unrealistic images of beauty. The tall, nearly emaciated mannequins that push the latest miracle cosmetic make even the most confident woman question her appearance. Feminist Naomi Wolf argues that women's insecurities are heightened by these images, and then exploited by the diet, cosmetic, and plastic surgery industries. Every day new products are introduced to "correct" inherently female "flaws," drawing women into an obsessive and hopeless cycle built around the attempt to reach an impossible standard of beauty. Wolf rejects the standard and embraces the naturally distinct beauty of all women.
Yancey, Diane. STDs What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
The average teenager's understanding and knowledge of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) is probably quite inadequate. Diane Yancey begins with case studies of actual teens (using fictitious names) who have contracted or are about to contract STDs. These students' stories are woven through the chapters of the book as each disease is discussed adding a human touch to the medical discussion.
Faludi, Susan. Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man
In Stiffed, the author turns her attention to the masculinity crisis plaguing our culture at the end of the '90s, an era of massive layoffs, "Angry White Male" politics, and Million Man marches. As much as the culture wants to proclaim that men are made miserable--or brutal or violent or irresponsible--by their inner nature and their hormones, Faludi finds that even in the world they supposedly own and run, men are at the mercy of cultural forces that disfigure their lives and destroy their chance at happiness. As traditional masculinity continues to collapse, the once-valued male attributes of craft, loyalty, and social utility are no longer honored, much less rewarded. Faludi's journey through the modern masculine landscape takes her into the lives of individual men whose accounts reveal the heart of the male dilemma. Stiffed brings us into the world of industrial workers, sports fans, combat veterans, evangelical husbands, militiamen, astronauts, and troubled "bad" boys--whose sense that they've lost their skills, jobs, civic roles, wives, teams, and a secure future is only one symptom of a larger and historic betrayal.
Kivel, Paul. Boys Will Be Men: Raising Our Sons for Courage, Caring and Community
Paul Kivel has done it again with this excellent, pragmatic piece on how to challenge the forces that harm young men (and young women) in schools and families. As a professor of school and family counseling, I am always searching for pragmatic, effective, down-to-earth resources that will assist students, parents, counselors, teachers, and all others concerned about our youth. Kivel brings his substantial experience as an anti-oppression educator and activist from his work with the Oakland Men's Center into his latest work.
Nikkah, John. Our Boys Speak: Adolescent Boys Write About Their Inner Lives
Convinced that boys, like girls, need to air their emotional lives, psychologist Nikkah offers a collection of essays, journal entries, stories, and poems written by young men ages 12 to 18. Heartfelt entries grouped into sections on relationships with family and friends ("Our Inner Circle"), outside influences ("Our World"), and inner struggles ("Our Selves") reveal the turmoil that male teens often mask with nonchalance and bravado. Friendships forged and forgotten, families pulled together and torn apart, threats of violence faced or avoided--all are thoughtfully examined in these revealing accounts. The young writers are painfully honest and generous in sharing those uncomfortable moments so much a part of growing up. Nikkah's brief chapter introductions add perspective and make the collection flow more smoothly. Teachers, parents, and teens themselves will find these writings eye-opening.
Pittman, Frank. Man Enough: Fathers, Sons and the Search for Masculinity
Combining case studies, examples from literature and films, and personal vignettes, a family therapist considers male childhood with no caring father or male role model and offers ways for adult males to overcome this loss.
Pollack, William. Real Boys' Voices
In his groundbreaking bestseller, Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood, Dr. William Pollack delved into the issues that today's boys face, from violence to the limiting notion that boys don't cry. In his follow-up book, Real Boys' Voices, Pollack, a clinical psychologist and assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, lets readers get close to his source--the boys themselves, ages 10 to 20, from all around the country. The voices he presents are searingly authentic and eager to be heard. Pollack's basic premise is simple: Despite what society might tell us, boys want to talk. Furthermore, they have a lot to say on a wide variety of topics, including gender issues, friendship, sex, fear of violence, and relationships with their mothers and fathers.
Abrams, Rhonda. The Successful Business Plan: Secrets and Strategies
This resource provides a step-by-step process for creating a successful business, including: expert advice, worksheets, tips on impressing funders, sample business plan guides, tips for your type of business, the Abrams Method of flow-through financials, and winning tips for competitors.
Attard, Janet. Business Know-How: An Operational Guide for Home-Based and Micro-Sized Businesses with Limited Budgets
Business Know-How is a comprehensive guide to small and home business success. It tells you the strategies that owners of homebased and small businesses like yours are using today.
Drew, Bonnie and Noel. Fast Cash for Kids
Parents want kids to learn about responsibility – and kids want to make their own money. Now, Fast Cash for Kids promises to provide the answers and motivation to turn eager wage earners into young entrepreneurs. This is the ideal book for any young businessperson who wants to get his or her business started in the right direction. It’s also a great guide for parents and teachers who want to encourage entrepreneurship in their children and students.
Girl Scouts of the USA. CentsAbility
This resource was compiled by the Girls Scouts of the USA as a financial literacy guide for girls. CentsAbility was developed to help Junior and Cadette Girl Scouts learn and implement key concepts and skills related to personal money management. As they explore the relationship between lifestyle and occupational choices and imagine themselves as young adults, they’ll learn the all-important balancing act between income and expenses as they create and balance their budgets. This resource’s group activities and individual projects offer opportunities to help girls develop and use their fiscal muscles.
Girl Scouts of the USA. Got Money?
This guide is one of the many books in the Studio 2B Focus series. Got Money? focuses on saving and investing money.
Godfrey, Joline. No More Frogs to Kiss: 99 Ways to Give Economic Power to Girls
This resource shows how to help girls discover the self-respect that comes only from developing our own talents and finding our own independence - and to do it before the fog of "happily ever after" descends. A great book for parents, teachers, sisters, brothers, and friends of girls everywhere!
Godfrey, Neale S. Neale S. Godfrey’s Ultimate Kid’s Money Book
In this comprehensive guide, renowned financial expert Neale S. Godfrey reveals everything you need to know about money, including how to earn it, save it, spend it, and share it. She also explains such topics as credit, checks, and electronic banking – and relates them all to a young reader’s world.
Harden, Sarah. Dollar Diva: Business Plan Guide.
Henricks, Mark. Business Plans Made Easy
Whether you're just starting out or already running a business, a business plan can be the most important factor in your success. In this enjoyable, easy-to-read guide, Mark Henricks shares with you proven techniques, hints and tips for easily creating results-getting business plans that match your exact needs.
Independent Means, Inc. Exploring Entrepreneurship
This kit includes: Product in a Box, a six session curriculum, a copy of the Hot Company board game, the Biz Word and Biz Buzz Activity Cards and the Women Who Dare video. With these tools, young women will discover how to make a job, not just take a job!
Independent Means, Inc. Biz Buzz.
Biz Buzz introduces the principles, language and key concepts of business through participation and imagination. This new series of eight activities will help you create a fun and effective learning experience. Ages 13 and up.
Jones, Vada Lee. Kids Can Make Money Too!
This resource teaches kids how to earn and save money, open and use a checking account, finance and advertise a business, have fun without spending money, and recognize success.
Kay, Ellie. Money Doesn't Grow on Trees
Ellie Kay, "savings queen" and the mother of five, provides down-to-earth, practical ways to teach kids how to handle money wisely. Her signature humor and creative, helpful advice, along with tips from other parents, make this an easy-to-follow guide for parents of pre-schoolers through teens.
Reber, Deborah. In Their Shoes: Extraordinary Women Describe Their Amazing Careers.
This fun, accessible book should appeal to teens who are exploring career possibilities. Each chapter contains an interview with its subject, for example, Nancy Pearl, librarian, as well as sidebars and lists on what to do now to prepare, what the person's day is like, and a time line of how her career took shape over the years. Concrete details about the women's current lives and about how they attained their goals are included. The variety of careers is impressive, ranging from forensic scientist and sheriff to social worker and actionista woman who is part motivational speaker, part writer, and part actress.
Trahey, Jane. Women and Power.
Wood, Heather. 101 Marvelous Money Making Ideas for Kids
This book is the self-starter’s guide to discovering and marketing your skills so you can get the job you want. Whether you’re an artist or an athlete, a clown or a computer-nut, you’ll discover a way to put your talents to work and pocket the results.
Campbell, Ann. Queenie Farmer Had Fifteen Daughters.
On the very day Queenie Farmer gives birth to fifteen daughters, her beloved prize herd of cows runs off with her husband in chase. Her life is never dull, and Queenie rises to each task with her own particular flair.
Ann Campbell's delightfully original tall tale weaves together a down-home family story with early math concepts and an introduction to the days of the week. Holly Meade's gentle hand and buoyant compositions highlight the bold, independent spirit of Queenie--and each of her beloved girls.
Chapman, Linda. My Secret Unicorn: The Magic Spell.
Have you ever longed for a pony? Lauren Foster has. And when her family moves to the country, her dream finally comes true. But when she reads a story about a perfectly ordinary pony who turns into a snow-white unicorn, she starts to look at her own pony, Twilight, and to wonder, maybe . . . Just maybe . . .?
Christensen, Bonnie. The Daring Nellie Bly: America's Star Reporter.
From the award-winning picture book biographer of Woody Guthrie comes the inspirational story of Nellie Bly. Born in 1864, during a time in which options were extremely limited for women, Nellie defied all expectations and became a famous newspaper correspondent. Her daring exploits included committing herself to an infamous insane asylum in New York City to expose the terrible conditions there and becoming the first American war correspondent of either sex to report on the front lines of Austria during World War I. In 1889, Nellie completed her most publicized stunt, her world-famous trip around the world in just 72 days, beating the record of Jules Vernes’ fictional hero in Around the World in 80 Days.
Cleary, Beverly. Ramona and Her Father.
Ramona Quimby, a spunky second grader, finds that her life changes when her father unexpectedly loses his job. Ramona becomes determined to make her worried father, overworked mother, and moody older sister a happy family again. When her plan to earn a million dollars making television commercials fails miserably, Ramona decides to save her father's life by getting him to quit smoking. Mr. Quimby becomes even crankier! Yet, he shows his love for Ramona by sharing insights into what makes a happy family. That Christmas, Ramona, filled with joy and pride, realizes that she has everything she really wants.
Cooney, Barbara. Miss Rumphius.
As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
Curtis, Jamie Lee and Laura Cornell. I’m Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem
Through alternating points of view, a girl’s and a boy’s, Jamie Lee Curtis’ triumphant text and Laura Cornell’s lively artwork show kids that the key to feeling good is liking yourself because you are you.
dePaola, Tomie. Oliver Button Is A Sissy
A little boy must come to terms with being teased and ostracized because he'd rather read books, paint pictures and tap-dance than participate in sports.
Dorris, Michael. Morning Girl.
Morning Girl is the story of a Taino girl and her brother, told in alternating first-person chapters from each of their perspectives. The setting is Hispaniola, near the time of Columbus' first landing. Michael Dorris, who received the Scott O'Dell Award for historical fiction for this book, has presented a fictionalized recreation of what life may have been like for Taino children before Columbus arrived.
Elwin, Rosamund and Michele Paulse. Asha's Mums.
Asha, an African-Canadian girl whose lesbian mums become an issue for the teacher and the curiosity of classmates, responds with clarity and assuredness that having two mums is no big deal - they are a family.
Frith, Margaret. Frida Kahlo: The Artist Who Painted Herself
This is the story of a girl who writes a report on the artist Frida Kahlo.
Hample, Stuart and Eric Marshall. Children's Letters to God.
Here is the unassuming little book that charmed its way up the bestseller lists and now has over 1.2 million copies in print. This third edition of CHILDREN-S LETTERS TO GOD reveals again the surprising pleasures and provocations of what happens when kids decide to send a letter off to their maker. Whether posing a question, begging a favor, or expressing doubt or joy, these letters are notable for their refreshing directness, unexpected humor, and startling clarity of thought. It-s like seeing the world through a child-s bright eyes, eyes untouched by cynicism, eyes brimming with innocence, wonder, and curiosity.Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club.
Knight, Margy Burns. Who Belongs Here? An American Story.
Following their well-received Talking Walls , Knight and O'Brien again team up for an affectionate if didactic exploration of connections among people world-wide. This time the message is filtered through the experience of Nary, a Cambodian refugee who immigrates to the U.S. with his grandmother after the death of both parents. Hostility toward immigrants and the impetus to work for change are explored. The central question, "What if everyone . . . whose ancestors came from another country was forced to return to his or her homeland? . . . Who would be left?" signals the book's design as a vehicle for discussion. The text itself pairs Nary's story with italicized information on immigration to the U.S. This strategy is only intermittently effective; younger readers may not be capable of making the conceptual jumps both Knight and O'Brien require, while older readers may chafe at the picture-book format. These limitations notwithstanding, the volume provides strong starting points for ongoing explorations of multicultural themes.
Kroll,Virgina L. My Sister Then and Now.
A young girl's fictional account of her sister's mental illness.
Lansky, Bruce, Ed. Girls to the Rescue, Volumes 1,3-5, & 7.
This is a series of tales of clever, courageous girls from around the world. All of the stories feature girls as heroes.
MacLachlan, Patricia. Sarah, Plain and Tall.
In the late 19th century a widowed midwestern farmer with two children--Anna and Caleb--advertises for a wife. When Sarah arrives she is homesick for Maine, especially for the ocean which she misses greatly. The children fear that she will not stay, and when she goes off to town alone, young Caleb--whose mother died during childbirth--is stricken with the fear that she has gone for good. But she returns with colored pencils to illustrate for them the beauty of Maine, and to explain that, though she misses her home, "the truth of it is I would miss you more." The tale gently explores themes of abandonment, loss and love.
Maze, Stephanie. I Want to Be... A Firefighter.
Kindergarten-Grade 2-These books introduce a limited number of concepts and terms associated with an occupation and are appropriate for beginning readers. The one or two sentences per page are supported by attractive full- and double-page color photographs of men and women at work, whether it be rounding up cows, putting out fires, or navigating a plane.
Mazer, Anne. The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes: Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining.
Mazer (The Fixits) introduces a spunky and appealing heroine in this inaugural volume of The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes: she and her days are more average than amazing. This is, in fact, the bee in Abby's bonnet. Her three "SuperSibs" outshine her. One of her older twin sisters excels at virtually every sport, the other is the top student in ninth grade, and her younger brother is a math and computer genius. Her lawyer mother also runs marathons, and her father owns a successful computer business. Where does this leave poor Abby? Feeling "small and insignificant," yet determined to prove "that she was deserving of being a Hayes, too." At the start of her fifth-grade year, Abby resolves to make her mark by becoming a soccer star by the end of the fall season. Documented largely through the journal writings of this devoted young writer, Abby's quest to reach this goal, as well as her frustration with her accomplished siblings, makes for repetitious reading at times. But Mazer injects some moments of sophisticated, wry humor (e.g., a Bridget Jones-like journal entry in which the allegedly newly reformed heroine notes, "Went home and ate plate of cookies to celebrate decision to turn self into great athlete"). In the end, Abby's real talents outshine those to which she aspires. Abby may well score enough points with readers that they'll ride out this tale's pleasures and faults, and move on to her next caper, The Declaration of Independence, also due this month. Ages 8-12.
Mazer, Anne. The Amazing Days of Abby Hayes:Good Things Come in Small Packages.
When Abby and her new friend, Hannah, take charge of a class project to assemble gift packages for underprivileged children, one thing after the next goes wrong. First their teacher, Mrs. Kantor, must leave school for a few weeks. The class is stuck with a mean substitute who won't let them work on their gift boxes. Then, after their kind principal intervenes and work on the class project resumes, Hannah's baby sister unintentionally destroys many of the gift boxes. Working as a team, Abby and Hannah think of a clever way to save the day, their budding friendship, and the class project.
McElroy, Lisa Tucker. Meet My Grandmother: She's a Deep Sea Explorer.
Gr 3-4-Grandmothers are getting younger every day, and Sylvia Earle, pioneering marine biologist, has joined the ranks of this esteemed group. Written in the first person from her 10-year-old grandson's point of view, the text describes "G-mom's" dedication to protecting the marine environment and her work to further the awareness and knowledge of this precious resource. Full-color photographs on every page show Earle and her grandchildren on beaches and in aquarium settings holding kelp, touching sea creatures, and thoroughly enjoying themselves. Her professional activities aboard NOAA research vessels-diving in submersibles and scuba gear-are documented as is her role as National Geographic's explorer-in-residence. The last page provides nine tips for readers who want to be deep-sea explorers with the final tip, "Get Wet." While there's not a lot of substance, this is an engaging family photo album with narration.
Moss, Peggy & Dee Dee Tardiff. Our Friendship Rules.
Alexandra and Jenny have been best friends for a long time. But when Alexandra is momentarily dazzled by the glamour of a new girl at school, she's willing to do almost anything to get to be the cool girl's friend. Ultimately, she tells Jenny's biggest, most important secret--and just like that, Alexandra is in! But when Alexandra realizes what it feels like to lose her best friend, and sees the hurt she's caused, she knows she has to figure out a way to regain the relationship that's far more important to her than being invited to sit with the popular girls. Our Friendship Rules is both a lyrical story of forgiveness and a simple, sweet but instructive tale of how to get along.
Munsch, Robert. The Paper Bag Princess
This is the story of a princess named Elizabeth. When a dragon comes and burns Elizabeth’s castle and all her belongings with his fiery breath and steals the prince that she is supposed to marry, Elizabeth takes off, dressed only in a paper bag to get her revenge.
Newman, Lesléa. Heather Has Two Mommies
Heather’s favorite number is two. She has two arms, two legs, two eyes, two ears, two hands and two feet. Heather has two pets: a ginger colored cat named Gingersnap and a big black dog named Midnight. Heather also has two mommies: Mama Jane and Mama Kate. This is a great book to teach children about all kinds of different families.
Paterson, Katherine. The Great Gilly Hopkins.
Eleven-year-old Gilly has been stuck in more foster families than she can remember, and she's disliked them all. She has a county-wide reputation for being brash, brilliant, and completely unmanageable. So when she's sent to live with the Trotters -- by far the strangest family yet -- Gilly decides to put her sharp mind to work. Before long she's devised an elaborate scheme to get her real mother to come rescue her. But the rescue doesn't work out, and the great Gilly Hopkins is left thinking that maybe life with the Trotters wasn't so bad ...
Phelps, Ethel Johnston. Tatterhood and Other Tales.
All the central characters in these folk tales are spirited females—decisive heroes of extraordinary courage, wit, and achievement who set out to determine their own fate. Some of their stories are comic, some adventurous, some eerie, and some magical. The 25 traditional tales come from Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
Richards, Beah E. Keep Climbing Girls.
Kindergarten-Grade 3. In this picture-book rendition of Richardss 1951 poem of the same name, girls are urged to keep climbing no matter what obstacles get in the way. Bold gouache illustrations create a beguiling green-and-gold landscape with an irresistible tree and a determined little girl who climbs it higher and higher with every page turn. Stern and frightened Miss Nettie tries coaxing the child out of the tree, using scare tactics of broken necks and taunts of tomboy. But a little girl victorious/cant hide her childish glee,/to see Miss Nettie so put out/that she, a girl, could climb a tree. An introduction by LisaGay Hamilton gives readers more information about the poem and Richards, an African-American actor, playwright, and poet who set her own sights high and faced plenty of challenges along the way. This work helps to encourage and bolster up young girls as they begin to make their way in the world.
Rockwell, Anne. They Called Her Molly Pitcher.
George Washington made her a sergeant in the Continental Army for her bravery, and Rockwell (Only Passing Through) gives her star treatment in this stirring picture book biography. She's Mary (better known as Molly) Hays, and in 1777 she followed her husband to war and straight into the annals of American history. After surviving a winter at Valley Forge, Molly continued on with the remaining soldiers to the Battle of Monmouth (N.J.), fought on a sweltering June day. Molly spends the day fearlessly dodging cannon and musket fire to bring pitchers of water to heat-stricken soldiers and, later, manning the cannon left by her injured husband. Without sacrificing the dramatic momentum, the author also assesses the Americans' military tactics and training (or lack thereof) versus British expectations and mores (despite temperatures approaching 100 degrees, British soldiers wore fur hats and heavy wool suits). Rockwell finds opportunities for humor (in later life, it seems, the only fault her employers ever found with her was that she swore like a soldier) and for her own opinions (after Washington honors Molly, no soldier sneered at the thought of a woman being a sergeant in his army). Von Buhler (Little Girl in a Red Dress with Cat and Dog) works in a folk-art style, and flat perspectives, sturdy brushwork and light crackling effects give her paintings a colonial look. The type, unfortunately, can be difficult to read, set on a rustic, linen-like background a minor flaw in a memorable book. Ages 7-10.
Sabin, Francene. Young Eleanor Roosevelt.
Recounts the early life of the first lady and humanitarian who grew up with "Uncle Teddy" Roosevelt and found an outlet for her intelligence and energy by working in resettlement houses.
Sweet, Melissa. Carmine: A Little More Red.
While a little girl who loves red--and loves to dilly-dally--stops to paint a picture on the way to visit her grandmother, her dog Rufus meets a wolf and leads him directly to Granny's house.
Aisenberg, Nadya. Ordinary Heroines: Transforming the Male Myth.
About the search for a new paradigm, that of a contemporary heroine. A heroine is not simply a female hero. The key to the contemporary heroine is that she substitutes moral courage for the physical bravery of the traditional hero, and enacts her 'hero-ine-ism' from within the parameters of her ordinary life.
Baldwin, Barbara, Margarita Donnelly, editors. Calyx: A Journal of Art and Literature by Women. October 1980 and Summer 1993.
Barash, Susan Shapiro. Tripping the Prom Queen: The Truth About Women and Rivalry.
Tripping the Prom Queen is a groundbreaking investigation into the dark secret of female friendship: rivalry.Susan Shapiro Barash has exploded the myth that women help one another, are supportive of one another, and want each other to succeed. Based on interviews with women across a broad social spectrum, she has discovered that the competition between women is more vicious precisely because it is covert.
Barlas, Asma. "Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an
Does Islam call for the oppression of women? Non-Muslims point to the subjugation of women that occurs in many Muslim countries, especially those that claim to be "Islamic," while many Muslims read the Qur'an in ways that seem to justify sexual oppression, inequality, and patriarchy. Taking a wholly different view, Asma Barlas develops a believer's reading of the Qur'an that demonstrates the radically egalitarian and antipatriarchal nature of its teachings.
Belenky, Mary Field, Lynne Bond, & Jacqueline Weinstock. Tradition That Has No Name
A fascinating study that shows how nurturing community groups can help impoverished, uneducated women to "find their voice" and become articulate and empowered thinkers. Illustrated with poignant and vivid case studies, the book masterfully shows how lives can be forever altered and enhanced through caring community intervention
Belenky, Mary Field, et al. Women’s Ways of Knowing
Despite the progress of the women’s movement, many women still feel silenced in their families and schools. This moving and insightful bestseller, based on in-depth interviews with 135 women, explains why they feel this way.
Brooks, Geraldine. Nine Parts of Desire
As a prizewinning foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, Geraldine Brooks spent six years covering the Middle East through wars, insurrections, and the volcanic upheaval of resurgent fundamentalism. Yet for her, headline events were only the backdrop to a less obvious but more enduring drama: the daily life of Muslim women. Nine Parts of Desire is Brooks’ intrepid journey toward an understanding of the women behind the veils, and of the often-contradictory political, religious, and cultural forces that shape their lives. Defying our stereotypes about the Muslim world, Brooks’ acute analysis of how Islam’s holiest texts have been misused to justify repression of women, and how male pride and power have warped the original message of a once liberating faith.
Chesler, Phyllis. Women’s Inhumanity to Women
Second Wave feminists have for 30-plus years operated under the assumption that sisterhood is powerful. Indeed, women acting in concert have forced society to redefine gender, domestic relations, and the workplace. Still, despite huge gains in public visibility, female ascendance has been hampered by a rarely acknowledged reality: women often betray, hurt, and humiliate one another. Mothers stymie daughters, biological sisters compete, girlfriends gossip maliciously, and women bosses exert arbitrary and capricious authority. Chesler (Women and Madness, etc.) has been studying this phenomenon for 21 years, and her research is fascinating, resonant, and unsettling. While the book focuses on psychological rather than political factors and pays too little attention to race and class, it is nonetheless a groundbreaking look at how women perpetuate oppression. Anthropological, biological, literary, and sociological theories are also tapped, giving the book added heft. Although the text is somewhat repetitious and self-congratulatory, it is highly recommended for all public and academic libraries.
Dodson, Lisa. Don't Call Us Out of Name: The Untold Lives of Women and Girls in Poor America.
For over eight years, Dodson has been documenting the lives of girls and women - hundreds of white, African-American, Latino, Haitian, Irish, and other women in personal interviews, focus groups, surveys, and Life-History Studies. This book is a crossing - a class crossing - taking readers into fellowship with people who are seldom invited to speak but who have powerful stories to tell and who force us to abandon common myths that have been fed to us by the media about school dropouts, teen pregnancy, and welfare "cheats."
Douglass, Susan J. Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media.
An insightful, witty, and well-written analysis of the effects of mass-media on women in late 20th-century American culture. Douglas cuts through the fluff that spews from the tube with a finely-honed sense of the absurd that can forever change (or minimally, inform) how you perceive the changing portrayals of women by the media.
Ehrenreich, Barbara and Deidre English. For Her Own Good
This dense, well-argued classic underscores the need to take expert advice with a shaker of salt. Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English ably show that many experts gleefully hammer recalcitrant souls into a shape acceptable to society, rather than encouraging people to find their own way. The book plunges into 150 years of misbegotten advice to women and questionable insights into feminine nature that have many modern parallels. In the service of better living through science, women have undergone deprivational rest cures that most war rules would disallow, submitted to surgical bludgeoning of ovaries and uterus to quell a list of unladylike behaviors, and humbly followed childcare advice that amounted to abuse
Ehrenreich, Barbara, Arlie Russell Hochschild. Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy.
In a remarkable pairing, two renowned social critics offer a groundbreaking anthology that examines the unexplored consequences of globalization on the lives of women worldwide women are moving around the globe as never before. But for every female executive racking up frequent flier miles, there are multitudes of women whose journeys go unnoticed. Each year, millions leave Mexico, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, and other third world countries to work in the homes, nurseries, and brothels of the first world. This broad-scale transfer of labor associated with women's traditional roles results in an odd displacement. In the new global calculus, the female energy that flows to wealthy countries is subtracted from poor ones, often to the detriment of the families left behind.
Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed
Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty level wages. Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them, inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on six to seven dollars an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich moved from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, taking the cheapest lodgings available and accepting work as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing home aide, and Wal-Mart salesperson. She soon discovered that even the “lowliest” occupations require exhausting mental and physical efforts. And one job is not enough; you need at least two if you intend to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity – a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Instantly acclaimed for its insight, humor, and passion, this book is changing the way America perceives its working poor.
Eller, Cynthia. The Myth of Matriarchal Prehistory: Why an Invented Past Won't Give Women a Future.
In this lucid and fascinating volume, Eller traces the emergence of feminist matriarchal myth, explicates its functions, and examines the evidence for and against a matriarchal prehistory. Finally, she explains why this vision of peaceful, women-centered prehistory is something feminists should be wary of.
Faludi, Susan. Backlash
Faludi lays out a two-fold thesis in this aggressive work: First, despite the opinions of pop-psychologists and the mainstream media, career-minded women are generally not husband-starved loners on the verge of nervous breakdowns. Secondly, such beliefs are nothing more than anti-feminist propaganda pumped out by conservative research organizations with clear-cut ulterior motives. This backlash against the women's movement, she writes, "stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's positions have actually led to their downfall." Meticulously researched, Faludi's contribution to this tumultuous debate is monumental.
Findlen, Barbara, ed. Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation
Listen Up offers a unique space for a diverse group of talented, committed young women to explore their ideas and hopes and struggles and places within feminism and within other social change movements. Over the years, it has inspired its readers to do the same.
Gallese, Liz Roman. Women Like Us: What is Happening to the Women of the Harvard Business School, Class of '75-the Women Who Had the First Chance to Make it to the Top.
This book examines six women who completed their education at the Harvard Business School and what has become of them.
Gilligan, Carol. In a Different Voice
Carol Gilligan believes that psychology has persistently and systematically misunderstood women. Repeatedly, developmental theories have been built on observations of men's lives. Here, Gilligan attempts to correct psychology's misperceptions and refocus its view of female personality. The result reshapes our understanding of human experience.
Gross, Ritam. Feminism and Religion: An Introduction.
Rita M. Gross offers an engaging survey of the changes feminism has wrought in religious ideas, beliefs, and practices around the world, as well as in the study and understanding of religion itself.
Hernandez, Daisy and Bushra Rehman. Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today's Feminism.
Ms. magazine columnist Hernandez and former Muslim poet Rehman, both feminist activists, have assembled a broad collection of essays by young women writers, academics, and activists from a range of cultures and sexual orientations. A few essays have a very specialized focus, describing such experiences as a Chicana with HIV and a Native American woman participating in the typically male War Dance ceremony. More often the contributors look more generally at their lives and families and consider how these experiences have influenced their understanding of feminism.
Hooks, Bell. Feminism is for EVERYBODY: Passionate Politics
Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers and open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuality, and society in this inspiring and accessible volume. In engaging and provocative style, bell hooks introduces a popular theory of feminism rooted in common sense and wisdom of experience. Hers is a vision of a beloved community that appeals to all those committed to equality, mutual respect, and justice.
Jack, Dana Crowley. Behind the Mask: Destruction and Creativity in Women’s Aggression
Drawing from sixty in-depth interviews, Dana Crowley Jack provides a rich account of how women explain (or explain away) their hidden or actual acts of hurt to others. Arguing that aggression arises from failures in relationships, Jack portrays the many forms aggression can take as women struggle with internal and external demons, reconnect with others, and stand their ground in a society that expects women to be yielding, empathetic, and supportive.
Jervis, Lisa and Andi Zeisler, editors. Bitchfest: 10 Years of Cultural Critism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine.
This often mind-stretching, occasionally predictable and generally entertaining collection of articles from Bitch magazine has something for every feminist, postfeminist and reactionary. Bitch was founded in 1996 in response to "post-feminism" by "freshly minted liberal arts graduates with crappy day jobs and a serious media jones." With refreshing depth, literacy and humor, these essays explore questions surrounding puberty, gender identity, sex, "domestic arrangements," beauty, pop culture and mainstream media, and media literacy/activism.
Jordan, Judith V, et al, editors. Women's Growth in Connection: Writings from the Stone Center
Overly emotional, hysterical, dependent, frivolous, fickle... Why have women been so consistently defined as deficient in maturity, self-mastery, and independence according to the models of human development inspired by male culture? The authors of WOMEN'S GROWTH IN CONNECTION, a sampling of the influential working papers from the Stone Center, Wellesley College, have sought to answer this question by studying developmental theory and reformulating it to reflect women's experience more accurately. These papers, about women's ways of being in the world, frame an innovative relational perspective on women's psychological development. The authors--clinicians, clinical supervisors, and teachers--have been searching for therapeutic models that take into account women's meaning systems, values, and organization of experiences, all of which often revolves around relationships rather than the self.
Kilbourne, Jean. Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel
Many advertisements these days make us feel as if we have an intimate, even passionate relationship with a product. But as Jean Kilbourne points out in this fascinating and shocking exposé, the dreamlike promise of advertising always leaves us hungry for more. We can never be satisfied, because the products we love cannot love us back. Drawing upon her knowledge of psychology, media, and women's issues, Kilbourne offers nothing less than a new understanding of a ubiquitous phenomenon in our culture. The average American is exposed to over 3,000 advertisements a day and watches three years' worth of television ads over the course of a lifetime. Kilbourne paints a gripping portrait of how this barrage of advertising drastically affects young people, especially girls, by offering false promises of rebellion, connection, and control. She also offers a surprising analysis of the way advertising creates and then feeds an addictive mentality that often continues throughout adulthood.
Kraemer, Ross Shepard, Mary Rose D'Angelo. Women and Christian Origins.
Intended as introductory or supplementary, these 14 essays explore recent scholarship concerning women in early Christianity. While providing some new analysis, the essays compiled by Kraemer (Judaic studies, Univ. of Pennsylvania) and D'Angelo (theology, Univ. of Notre Dame) are primarily critical review essays of the issues and approaches to religious studies.
Kreinin, Tamara and Barbara Camens. Girls’ Night Out: Celebrating Women’s Groups Across America
While women’s groups are diverse, their members have a common desire to create sustained bonds with other women. These groups become an anchor and a priority for their members. They create a sense of belonging. We live in an increasingly mobile society, where family is often scattered. When our parents and siblings lived nearby, we could count on them to be present in our day-to-day lives. Women’s groups can provide that sense of family. They mobilize energy and resources, and they lend extra hands. Women’s groups, through their enduring presence, offer a sense of rootedness, a common body of experience and knowledge, a sense of continuity.
Langelan, Martha J. Back Off! How to Confront and Stop Sexual Harassers.
Back Off! is filled with real-life success stories from women who have stopped harassers cold: Sharon, who succeeded in stopping a whole crew of habitual harassers in a city park...Stephanie, a ten-year-old who confronted and escaped a child molester...Catharine and Molly, who stood up to their landlord and stopped him from harassing the tenants...and dozens more. From an eight-year-old who successfully challenged two young harassers on the playground to an organized group of fifty women who confronted a dockworker in response to an attempted rape on the job, here's what they did, how they did it -- and how you can do it, too.
Leadbeater, B. & Way, N. Urban Girls: Resisting Stereotypes, Creating Identities.
Contributors present a portrait of low-income, urban American adolescent girls based on fact rather than stereotype, aiming to fill the gap in research about adolescent girls. They explore girls' attitudes and alternatives in areas such as identity, family and peer relationships, sexuality, health, and career development, often allowing the girls to speak for themselves. For undergraduate and graduate students in psychology, sociology, economics, and women's studies, as well as policymakers.
Levy, Ariel. Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture.
"Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig--the new brand of ""empowered woman"" who wears the Playboy bunny as a talisman, bares all for Girls Gone Wild, pursues casual sex as if it were a sport, and embraces ""raunch culture"" wherever she finds it. If male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women as pieces of meat, Female Chauvinist Pigs of today are doing them one better, making sex objects of other women--and of themselves. They think they're being brave, they think they're being funny, but in Female Chauvinist Pigs, New York magazine writer Ariel Levy asks if the joke is on them.
Madden, Annette. In Her Footsteps: 101 Remarkable Black Women.
In Her Footsteps portrays the vitality, creativity, and resilience of women of African descent from all around the world. The true-life stories of these daughters of Africa are full of struggle, courage, trial, and triumph. The marvelous women profiled included Ana Quirot, a Cuban runner who overcame life-threatening burns to triumph in the 1996 Olympic games; a Coincoin, a salve from Louisiana who was freed with one son and one acre of land and went on to become a rea estate magnate and cattle rancher; and most famously, Queen Makeda, who is revered in Ethiopian history as the myseterious and beautiful Queen of Sheba. In addition to well-known figures such as author Edwidge Danticat, tennis star Zine Garrison, and entertainer Eartha Kitt, a wide range of unsung, international Black women heroes fills the pages of this inspiring book. In Her Footsteps offers us undeniable proof of the indomitable and passionate force Black women have been in their families, in their communities, and in the world throughout history.
Mah, Madeline Yen. Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter.
The author's memoir of life in mainland China and--after the 1949 revolution--Hong Kong is a gruesome chronicle of nonstop emotional abuse from her wealthy father and his beautiful, cruel second wife. Chinese proverbs scattered throughout the text pithily covey the traditional world view that prompted Adeline's subservience.
Mazel, Ella. "And Don't Call Me a Racist!" A Treasury of Quotes on the Past, Present, and Future of the Color Line in America.
Using quotes across time, class and race, Mazel presents a an uncomfortable look at the divergent ways in which Americans view black / white relations. Most white Americans want to believe that racism is dead, or at least no longer the problem it once was. The sad truth is that racism is alive and well, and is even thriving as we enter the 21st century.
Morgan, Joan. When Chicken-Heads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down
In this fresh, funky, and ferociously honest book, award-winning journalist Joan Morgan bravely probes the complex issues facing African-American women in today's world: a world where feminists have not-so-clandestine relationships with the most sexist of men; where women who treasure their independence often prefer men who pick up the tab; and where the deluge of babymothers and babyfathers reminds women who long for marriage that traditional nuclear families are a reality for less than 40 percent of the African-American population.
Morgan, Robin, ed. Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writing from the Women’s Liberation Movement
Here is the first comprehensive collection of writings from the Women’s Liberation Movement, including articles, poems, photographs and manifestos. This anthology captures the range of problems being considered by the new feminists, and the variety of approaches to analysis and action.
Nam, Vickie, ed. YELL-Oh Girls!
In this ground-breaking collection of personal writings, young Asian American girls come together for the first time and engage in a dynamic conversation about the unique challenges they face in their lives. Prompted by a variety of pressing questions from editor Vicki Nam and culled from hundreds of submissions from all over the country, these revelatory essays, poems, and stories tackle such complex issues as dual identities, culture clashes, family matters, body image, and the need to find one's voice.
Rossi, Alice S. The Feminist Papers: From Adams to Beauvoir.
A strong set of essays from women and how they have developed as feminists over the years also has explanations of in which societies women are suppressed.
Sanford, Linda Tschirhart and Mary Ellen Donovan. Women and Self-Esteem: Understanding and Improving the Way We Think and Feel About Ourselves.
This is a succinct and comprehensive guide to understanding how self-esteem is developed and how it can be enhanced. The authors examine the impact of developmental, cultural and religious attitudes and of media influences on a woman's ability to accept and appreciate herself. They also offer specific, practical advice on how to address the various difficulties that arise as a result of low self-esteem.
Sharpley-Whiting, T Denean. Pimps Up, Ho's Down: Hip Hop's Hold On Young Black Women.
Pimps Up, Ho's Down pulls at the threads of the intricately knotted issues surrounding young black women and hip hop culture. What unravels for Tracy D. Sharpley-Whiting is a new, and problematic, politics of gender. In this fascinating and forceful book, Sharpley-Whiting, a feminist writer who is a member of the hip hop generation, interrogates the complexities of young black women's engagement with a culture that is masculinist, misogynistic, and frequently mystifying.
Smith, Dorothy E. The Everyday World As Problematic: A Feminist Sociology.
A collection of essays that proposes a method for assessing and analyzing how women and men view contemporary society form their particular vantage points.
Steinem, Gloria. Moving Beyond Words
Readers fascinated by Steinem's exploration of self-esteem in the best-selling Revolution from Within (1991) as well as those who consider that book an unproductive digression are likely to be curious about this collection of new and revised essays. The longest piece, a "reversal" that defends the psychoanalytic theories of "Phyllis" Freud, is demanding (you do need to read those long, chatty footnotes!) but will be instructive for readers who have not followed the latest scholarship on Sigmund.
Steinem, Gloria. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions
An updated edition of the original 1983 publication features Gloria Steinem's most significant humorous and political essays, including "I Was a Playboy Bunny," "Ruth's Song," and "If Men Could Menstruate."
Steinem, Gloria. Revolution from Within
In the wake of such feminist calls-to-arms as Susan Faludi's Backlash (p. 1133), Paula Kamen's Feminist Fatale (p. 1137), and Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth (p. 389), Steinem's inwardly turned examination of how men and women sabotage themselves by suppressing the “child within” appears decidedly retro. Nevertheless, her reflections on her own and others' spiritual struggles may give a new generation of activists pause for further reflection.
Tavris Carol. The Mismeasure of Women
When "man is the measure of all things," woman is forever trying to measure up. In this enlightening book, Carol Tavris unmasks the widespread but invisible custom -- pervasive in the social sciences, medicine, law, and history -- of treating men as the normal standard, women as abnormal. Tavris expands our vision of normalcy by illuminating the similarities between women and men and showing that the real differences lie not in gender, but in power, resources, and life experiences.
Taylor, J., Gilligan, C., & Sullivan, A. Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationship.
The authors sought a key to the relationship between risk, resistance, and girls' psychological development and health. In Between Voice and Silence, they explore the cultural differences that affect girls' coming of age in this country and reveal an intergenerational struggle to develop relationships between and among women to hold and respect difference
Thom, Mary (editor). Letters to Ms. 1972-1987.
A compendium of letters from readers who ever since the premier issue of Ms. in 1972, have deluged the magazine with mail. Writers share their personal stories, criticize, voice their support, share political alerts and provide helpful facts of interest to women. These are more than merely a collection of interesting letters -- taken together they are the voice of women, the voice of an era -- and therefore a part of history.
Thompson, Becky. A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism
Not since the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, when many white college students went south to fight against Jim Crow laws, has white antiracist activity held the public's attention. Yet there have always been white people involved in fighting racism. In this passionate work, Becky Thompson looks at white Americans who have struggled against racism, offering examples of both successes and failures, inspirations, practical philosophies, and a way ahead.
Valenti, Jessica. He's a Stud, She's a Slut and 49 Other Double Standards Every Woman Should Know.
Double standards are nothing new. Women deal with them every day. Take the common truism that women who sleep around are sluts while men are studs. Why is it that men grow distinguished and sexily gray as they age while women just get saggy and haggard? Have you ever wondered how a young woman is supposed to both virginal and provocatively enticing at the same time? Isn’t it unfair that working moms are labeled bad for focusing on their careers while we shake our heads in disbelief when we hear about the occasional stay-at-home dad?
Walker, Alice. In Search of Our Mother's Gardens: Womanist Prose.
In this, her first collection of nonfiction, Alice Walker speaks out as a black woman, writer, mother, and feminist in thirty-six pieces ranging from the personal to the political. Among the contents are essays about other writers, accounts of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the antinuclear movement of the 1980s, and a vivid memoir of a scarring childhood injury and her daughter's healing words.
Watrous, Angela (editor). Bare Your Soul: The Thinking Girl's Guide to Enlightenment.
Whether raised within a specific belief system or warned against all things religious, young women today have been left with questions that dating guides and pop feminist theory cannot answer. This collection answers the call a handbook for the soul that offers the wisdom and validation of how a variety of women negotiate an empowering spiritual existence in a pop-culture world. In Bare Your Soul, women of all backgrounds and traditions share how investigating questions of spirituality affects their lives and their identities. It is a provocative look at the ways in which young women of today both celebrate and repudiate religion and, ultimately, find answers that fit.
Wilson, Marie C. Closing the Leadership Gap
This book is a call to action to increase the presence of women in powerful leadership positions in our country - in politics as well as business. Marie C. Wilson, a leading women's advocate and founder of The White House Project, argues that even as our nation sits on a world spinning with crises, we have barely begun to tap our most critical natural resource - women.
Wolf, Naomi. Fire with Fire: The New Female Power and How it Will Change the 21st Century.
In "The Beauty Myth", Naomi Wolf sought to change the way in which women see themselves in relation to their bodies. Now she focuses on how they see themselves in relation to power. She argues that the feminist movement has to change if it is to speak to a new generation of women, and that, even as women are gaining more ground than ever before, a wariness of feminist orthodoxies keeps them away from the only movement capable of putting political clout behind their personal success. The book represents a call to women to throw off centuries of conditioning about the relationship between power and femininity.
Brown, L. & Gilligan, C. Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development
Lyn Mikel Brown and Carol Gilligan ask, "What, on the way to womanhood, does a girl give up?" One hundred girls gave voice to what is rarely spoken and often ignored: that the passage out of girlhood is a journey into silence and disconnection, a troubled crossing when a girl loses a firm sense of self and becomes tentative and unsure. These changes mark the end of adolescence as a watershed in women's psychological development and the stories the girls tell are by turns heartrending and courageous. Listening to these girls provides us with the means of reaching out to them at this critical time, and of better understanding what we as women and men may have left behind at our own crossroads.
Carlip, H. Girl Power: Young Women Speak Out: Personal Writings from Teenage Girls
In this extraordinary book you will discover the secrets and deepest needs of girls from all across the country – the thoughts, the fears, and the dreams of girls between the ages of thirteen and nineteen. You will hear from teen mothers and beauty queens, girl rappers and farm girls, surfers and sorority sisters. Theirs are voices that have too long gone unheard and unheeded, silenced and ignored. And now in this stunning collection they dare to reveal the things that will change your preconceptions and touch your heart.
Edut, Ophira. Adios Barbie: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity
Adios Barbie collects a wide range of essays that give collective voice to the first feminist generation to consciously repudiate the dominant beauty standard in order to feel at home in their bodies. Writers like Nomy Lamm and Lisa Jervis explore new paradigms of women who use their bodies as symbols of power, sites of resistance, and mediums of expression.
Fevereisen, Patti. Invisible Girls: The Truth About Sexual Abuse.
According to the National Bureau of Statistics, one out of four girls will have experienced sexual abuse by the time she is 16 and 48 percent of all rapes involve a victim under the age of 18. Yet there is tremendous denial about the scope and cultural impact of this epidemic of violence against young girls and women. Dr. Patti Feuereisen has been working with teenage girls for 25 years and has been a pioneer in helping abused girls find their voices. What she discovered in listening to hundreds of girls was not only that sexual abuse of young girls is in fact epidemic but that if the abuse can be processed when girls are still young-in their teens and early twenties-remarkable healing can take place. Girls and young women who are given an opportunity to speak out will most often go on to thrive as adults; without such an opportunity the traumatic effects of their abuse will often continue to cause them difficulty long into adulthood. Invisible Girls weaves together powerful first-person narratives with gentle guidance and seasoned insights-giving every young woman who struggles with the scars of sexual abuse the courage to come out from behind the veil of secrecy and become vibrant, healthy, and whole.
Filipovic, Zlata. A Child's Life in Sarajevo.
A graphic firsthand look at the war in Sarajevo by a Croatian girl whose personal world has collapsed, this vivid, sensitive diary sounds an urgent and compelling appeal for peace. Filipovic begins her precocious journal in autumn 1991 as a contented 10-year-old preoccupied with piano and tennis lessons and saturated with American movies, TV shows, books and rock music. Soon the bombs start falling; her friends are killed by shrapnel or snipers' bullets; her family's country house burns down, and they subsist on UN food packages, without gas, electricity or water, as thousands of Sarajevans die. Filipovic, whose circle of friends included Serbs, Croats and Muslims, blames the former Yugoslavia's politicians for dividing ethnic groups and playing hell with people's lives.
Gilligan, Carol et al. Making Connections.
Adolescent girls' special needs in the teen-age years are thoroughly examined in this compelling book focusing on the resistance stage of development in young girls. Drawing on studies of women's and girl's development, clinical work with girls and women, and their personal experiences, the voices of adolescent girls are used to reframe and greater understand their resistance against debilitating conventions of feminine behavior.
Glickman, Rose. Daughters of Feminists
Filled with personal anecdotes that will engage mothers, daughter, and anyone concerned with the progress of feminism in today’s social climate, Daughters of Feminists explores the experience of women directly influenced by mothers who worked hard toward equality and the transformation of the home, the workplace, and the world at large.
Hampshire College Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program. Young Women’s Voices
A collection of writings documenting our personal stories, our struggles, our fears, our anger, and our fight for reproductive rights.
Hancock, Emily. The Girl Within: A Groundbreaking New Approach to Female Identity.
Adolescent girls' special needs in the teen-age years are thoroughly examined in this compelling book focusing on the resistance stage of development in young girls. Drawing on studies of women's and girl's development, clinical work with girls and women, and their personal experiences, the voices of adolescent girls are used to reframe and greater understand their resistance against debilitating conventions of feminine behavior.
Inness, Sherrie, Ed. Millennium Girls: Today’s Girls Around the World
Riding the wave of a booming girl culture worldwide, this collection of girls' voices across the globe invites us to learn more about varied girlhoods. From coming-of-age rituals in South Africa to the impact of computers and popular magazines on girls in Japan and Germany, Millennium Girls offers us a broader vision of global girlhood.
Jacob, Iris. My Sisters’ Voices: Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out
Jacob solicited works from teens across the country, writing thousands of letters to friends, English teachers and social organizations. The result is a stirring collection of essays and poems detailing the coming-of-age experiences of a diverse group of young women identified by name, age and ethnicity. Jacob and company tackle such issues as interracial friendships, poverty, oppression and family. With her personal reflections inserted before each piece, Jacob exhibits empathy with the writers, revealing rage when presenting African-American Brooke Wilson's harangue against female objectification, and later joining Chinese/Italian Alicia Mazzara in displaying defiance when forced to choose one race over another in the biographical information section of standardized forms. Some of the writings are more race-oriented than others (e.g., Shivani Agarwal's heartbreaking story of first love does not mention ethnicity, and some contributors are listed as "African American," while others are simply "Black"), but all are important and will resonate with teens and their parents, teachers and mentors.
Johnson, Norine, Michael Roberts & Judith Worell. Beyond Appearance A New Look at Adolescent Girls
Boston Univ., MA. Presents a balanced view of adolescent girls, emphasizing their strengths and weaknesses. Reviews research on girls from a variety of ethnic, racial, socioeconomic backgrounds, and ages. Explores gender roles, body image, family and peer relationships, sexual decision-making, and experiences at school and in the community. For researchers and practitioners.
Johnston, Andrea. Girls Speak Out: Finding Your True Self
In Girls Speak Out, educator Andrea Johnston looks at girls throughout history, questions taboos about gender, and provides a step-by-step guide to helps girls explore issues crucial to their sense of self. In essence, she challenges girls to take control of their own lives and to create a world that cherishes each person. With poetry and stories from girls of all social strata who have participated in the Girls Speak Out program, excerpts from the work of women writers such as Alice Walker and Sandra Cisneros, and transcripts from the “talk shows” that Johnston and her Girls Speak Out groups have staged, this book is a blueprint for change.
Lamb, Sharon and Lyn Mikel Brown. Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers's Schemes
The stereotype-laden message, delivered through clothes, music, books, and TV, is essentially a continuous plea for girls to put their energies into beauty products, shopping, fashion, and boys. This constant marketing, cheapening of relationships, absence of good women role models, and stereotyping and sexualization of girls is something that parents need to first understand before they can take action.Lamb and Brown teach parents how to understand these influences, give them guidance on how to talk to their daughters about these negative images, and provide the tools to help girls make positive choices about the way they are in the world.In the tradition of books like Reviving Ophelia, Odd Girl Out, Queen Bees and Wannabees that examine the world of girls, this book promises to not only spark debate but help parents to help their daughters.
Lecroy, Craig Winston and Daley, Janice. Empowering Adolescent Girls: Examining the Present and Building Skills for the Future with the Go Grrrls Program
A method to help adolescent girls in today's culture successfully navigate the transition to adulthood. Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia awakened us to the need for gender-specific programs tailored to the unique issues girls face. In this book, LeCroy and Daley outline the issues, review the research, and offer specific strategies for working with adolescent girls.
Linn, Susan. Consuming Kids: The Hostile Takeover Of Childhood
In Consuming Kids, psychologist Susan Linn takes a comprehensive and unsparing look at the demographic advertisers call “the kid market, “ taking readers on a compelling and disconcerting journey through modern childhood as envisioned by commercial interests. Children are now the focus of a marketing maelstrom, targets for everything from minivans to M&M counting books. All aspects of children’s live – their health, education, creativity, and values – are at risk of being compromised by their status in marketplace.
Mann, Judy. The Difference: Discovering the Hidden Ways We Silence Girls, Finding Alternatives That Can Give Them Voice
A journalist surveys a wide range of scientific research and popular culture to reveal the roots of low self-esteem in girls and offers practical suggestions to parents and society for raising girls to an equal status with boys.
Orenstein, P. School Girls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap
The classic account of the hurdles facing adolescent girls in America. Inspired by a study by the American Association of University Women that showed girls' self-esteem plummeting as they reach adolescence, Peggy Orenstein spent months observing, interviewing, and getting know dozens of girls both inside and outside the classroom
Pipher, M. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
Why are American adolescent girls falling prey to depression, eating disorders, and suicide attempts at an alarming rate? The answer hit a nerve. We live in a look-obsessed, sexist “girl-poisoning” culture. And despite the advances of feminism, girls continue to struggle to find their true selves. Here are girls’ unmuted voices from the front lines of adolescence, personal and painfully honest. By laying bare their harsh day-to-day reality, Reviving Ophelia issues a call to arms and offers parents compassion, strength, and strategies with which to revive these Ophelias’ lost sense of self.
Sewell, Michelle. Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces.
Growing Up Girl is an eclectic collection of poems, essays, and short stories that document the transition from girl to woman, as told by the girls and women who know the journey best. Whether she's coming undone or coming out the writing is authentic and passionate.
Shandler, Sara. Ophelia Speaks
Ophelia Speaks by Sara Shandler is a clever response to Mary Pipher's best-selling Reviving Ophelia. Shandler reveals telling portraits of teenage girls in this book, a compilation of essays, poems, and true-grit commentary from a cross section of teenage girls (or Ophelias), throughout the country. The book succeeds because it gives voice to their deepest concerns and their too-often frenzied lives. Because she's a college student, Shandler considers herself a peer of these adolescent girls, able to tap into their collective consciousness.
Simmons, Rachel. Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls.
Although more than 16 years have passed, Rhodes Scholar Simmons hasn't forgotten how she felt when Abby told the other girls in third grade not to play with her, nor has she stopped thinking about her own role in giving Noa the silent treatment. Simmons examines how such "alternative aggression" where girls use their relationship with the victim as a weapon flourishes and its harmful effects. Through interviews with more than 300 girls in 10 schools (in two urban areas and a small town), as well as well as 50 women who experienced alternative aggression when they were young, Simmons offers a detailed portrait of girls' bullying. Citing the work of Carol Gilligan and Lyn Mikel Brown, she shows the toll that alternative aggression can take on girls' self-esteem.
Simmons, Rachel. Odd Girl Out: Girls Write About Bullies, Cliques, Popularity, and Jealousy.
The national bestseller Odd Girl Out exposed a hidden culture of cruelty that had always been quietly endured by American girls. As Rachel Simmons toured the country, these girls found their voices and spoke to her about their pain. They wanted to talk-and they weren't the only ones. Mothers, teachers, counselors, young professional women, even fathers, came to Rachel with heart-wrenching personal stories that could no longer be kept secret.
Here, Rachel creates a safe place for girls to talk, rant, sound off, and find each other. The result is a collection of wonderful accounts of the inner lives of adolescent girls. Candid and disarming, creative and expressive, and always exceptionally self-aware, these poems, songs, confessions, and essays form a journal of American girlhood. They show us how deeply cruelty flows and how strongly these girls want to change.
Allen, Paula Gunn. Spider Woman's Grandaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women.
These 24 compelling and bleakly evocative narratives compiled by Allen, a professor of Native American studies at the University of California, all stress the theme of loss: loss of identity, loss of culture, loss of personal meaning. By juxtaposing traditional stories with contemporary tales, Allen allows readers to see how the same themes, values and perceptions have endured through the centuries, "testaments to cultural persistence, to a vision and a spiritual reality that will not die." Echoes of the traditional "Oshkikwe's Baby," about an old witch who steals babies, can be found in two stories.
Beilson, Evelyn L. Wit and Wisdom of Famous American Women.
Quotes from famous writers, artists, entertainers, activists, pioneers, etc.
Blanton, DeAnne and Lauren M. Cook. They Fought Like Demons: Women Soldiers in the American Civil War.
Exhaustively researched by the authors and their formidable team of research assistants, They Fought Like Demons is both an excellent read and an innovative, significant contribution to Civil War scholarship. DeAnne Blanton and Lauren M. Cook have documented 250 cases of "distaff" soldiers--namely, women who disguised as and fought as men--and the book demonstrates beyond a shadow of doubt that these female soldiers displayed martial skill and valor on the battlefield and therefore deserve a share of the respect and honor that Americans have bestowed on male veterans of the Civil War.
Blythe, Myrna (editor). 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century.
100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century is a gift book, with photographs and short essays on influential women around the world, ranging from writers and scientists to politicians and athletes, and from progressive figures like Oprah Winfrey and Eleanor Roosevelt to reactionaries like anti-feminist Phyllis Schafly and ruthless Madame Mao (Jiang Qing). Although the essays on even the most famous figures, such as Billie Jean King or Princess Diana, are well-written and interesting, the best thing about this book is that it calls to mind wonderful women whose names have lost their currency, among them Jane Addams, who cofounded Chicago's Hull House and was vitally involved in the formation of the ACLU, and Carrie Chapman Catt, who formed the League of Women Voters.
Bolden, Tonya, ed. 33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women’s History
Here’s the perfect book for anyone interested in learning more about girls and women in the United States from the 18th century to the present. Featuring contributions from a wide variety of women, including well-known nonfiction writers, a children’s librarian, historians, and many more, this latest addition to the 33 Things series provides an engaging, inspiring, informative look at the role women have played in shaping American history.
Bundles, A'Lelia. On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker.
Drawn from more than two decades of exhaustive research by A'Lelia Bundles, Walker's great-great-granddaughter, the book is enriched by the author's exclusive access to personal letters, records, and never-before-seen photographs from the family collection. Bundles reveals surprising insights into Walker's rise to the top of international business, dispels many misconceptions, and showcases Walker's complex relationship with her daughter, a celebrated hostess of the Harlem Renaissance, and renowned friend and patron to both Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston.
Carey, Alice. I'll Know It When I See It: A Daughter's Search for Home in Ireland.
The only child of poor Irish immigrants, Alice Carey's isolated childhood in a cold-water flat in Queens is transformed when her mother becomes maid to legendary Broadway producer Jean Dalrymple. In Ms. Dalrymple's Upper East Side townhouse, young Alice absorbs with delight a sophisticated theatrical culture that includes such notables as Jed Harris and Marilyn Monroe. Then, a visit to Ireland with her mother thrusts young Alice into another novel culture, one that simultaneously enchants and traumatizes her. When Alice returns to Ireland as an adult, she and her husband serendipitously find and fall in love with a ruined Georgian farmhouse. As they begin to convert the stables into a livable cottage, Alice unearths buried memories of a childhood played out in wildly divergent homes.
Chessler, Ellen. Woman of Valor.
Ellen Chesler's 1992 biography of Margaret Sanger is acclaimed as definitive and is widely used and cited by scholars and activists alike in the fields of women's health and reproductive rights. Chesler's substantive new Afterword considers how Sanger's life and work hold up in light of subsequent developments, such as U.S. Supreme Court cases challenging the constitutional doctrine of privacy and international definitions of reproductive health as an essential human right.
Chin-Lee, Cynthia. Amelia to Zora: Twenty-Six Women Who Changed the World.
Grade 4-7. An introduction to 26 diverse, 20th-century women who have made a difference in such varied fields as the arts, sports, journalism, science, and entertainment. The entries include Dolores Huerta, Frida Kahlo, Lena Horne, Maya Lin, and Patricia Schroeder. Determination, imagination, perseverance, and strength are what bind them together. Entries are arranged alphabetically by first name; each woman is featured on a full page that includes a two-paragraph introduction, a quote, and striking mixed-media art that illustrates the essence of the person.
Clinton, Hillary Rodham. Living History
Hillary Rodham Clinton is known to millions of people around the world. Yet few beyond her close friends and family have ever heard her account of her extraordinary journey. She writes with candor, humor and passion about her upbringing in suburban, middle-class America in the 1950s and her transformation from Goldwater Girl to student activist to controversial First Lady. Living History is her revealing memoir of life through the White House years.
Conway, Jill Ker. Written by Herself: Autobiographies of American Women: An Anthology.
The autobiographies in this collection are by women of extraordinary achievement--some well known, some neglected through the generations--who overcame daunting obstacles to pursue their individual destinies in an often hostile, changing America. The narratives, chosen and edited by historian Conway, a former president of Smith College, are grouped into the areas of freedom-fighting, science, arts and letters, and social reform.
DuBois, Ellen Carol. Through Women's Eyes: An American History with Documents.
The first textbook for the survey course in American women’s history to combine a compelling narrative with a wide array of written and visual primary sources, Through Women’s Eyes: An American History is also the first to integrate women’s history into U.S. history while ensuring a balanced sense of the broad diversity of American women. Modeling for students how historians gather and interpret evidence, DuBois and Dumenil provide a textbook rooted in recent scholarship yet accessible to all introductory students.
Edgerly, Lois Stiles. Give Her This Day: A Daybook of Women’s Words
A unique compilation about nearly every subject under the sun, Give Her this Day is arranged in daybook format, with each day containing a piece of writing by a woman born on that day. A variety of subjects are covered: from relations of the sexes to peace and social justice; from a gathering of saints to Washington gossip; from crossing the Continental Divide to being presented to the Queen of England. Photographs of over 125 of the women are included, along with insightful biographies compiled by Lois Edgerly.
Ehrenreich, Barbara and Deirdre English. For Her Own Good: 150 Years of Advice to Women.
This dense, well-argued classic underscores the need to take expert advice with a shaker of salt. Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English ably show that many experts gleefully hammer recalcitrant souls into a shape acceptable to society, rather than encouraging people to find their own way. The book plunges into 150 years of misbegotten advice to women and questionable insights into feminine nature that have many modern parallels. In the service of better living through science, women have undergone deprivational rest cures that most war rules would disallow, submitted to surgical bludgeoning of ovaries and uterus to quell a list of unladylike behaviors, and humbly followed childcare advice that amounted to abuse.
Gage, Carolyn. Like There's No Tomorrow: Meditations for Women Leaving Patriarchy.
Like There's No Tomorrow: Meditations For Women Leaving Patriarchy is an anthology of women's emancipation quips, quotes and stories that are humorous, easy-to-read, inspirational mini-lectures, composing a kind of thumbnail tour of women's history -- as told by women. The profusion of quotations are written with a light touch, but a deep politic, and the woman who finds "one day at a time" a formula for despair will rejoice that, finally, there is a meditation book written for those in search of radical healing. Like There's No Tomorrow offers a compendium of "hot role models", cool strategies, suspenseful stories, and genuine words-of-wisdom perfect for women's issues study groups or personal reflections in a quiet corner.
Gates, Henry Louis Jr. The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters With the Founding Fathers.
The slave Phillis Wheatley literally wrote her way to freedom when, in 1773, she became the first person of African descent to publish a book of poems in the English language. The toast of London, lauded by Europeans as diverse as Voltaire and Gibbon, Wheatley was for a time the most famous black woman in the West.
Gorn, Elliott J. Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America.
This highly engaging biography (the first since 1974) charts the life and work of one of the U.S.'s most important and captivating political figures. Born into an impoverished Irish family in County Cork in 1837, she immigrated to North America at age 15. After working as a seamstress and teacher, Harris married George Jones, a member of the International Iron Molders Union. At 30 she was widowed when her husband and four young children died in a yellow fever epidemic. Caught up in the mid-century's roiling labor and social upheavals, Jones threw herself into the political fray. Speaking tirelessly and effectively for the rights of workers and unionists--often using bold, flagrantly rhetorical and poetic metaphors--"Mother" Jones reached the height of her fame and influence by 1913 when, in her 70s, she campaigned for the United Mine Workers in West Virginia, where she was arrested for conspiracy to commit murder (she had urged striking minors to protect their families against the military brought in to break the strike).
Gruber, Ruth. Haven.
A poignant, true-life story of a woman ahead of her time, willing to risk her life and put herself in danger to save refugees. Gripping retelling by Ms. Gruber, who shepharded nearly 1000 refugees from Italy on the Liberty ship, the Henry Gibbons. Afterward, the refugees set up at a camp called Camp Oswego, near Lake Ontario in New York.
Height, Dorothy. Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir
Dorothy Height marched at major civil rights rallies, sat through tense White House meetings, and witnessed every significant victory in the struggle for racial equality. Yet as that sole woman among powerful, charismatic men, and as someone whose personal ambition was always secondary to her passion for her cause, she has received little mainstream recognition – until now.
Hepburn, Katharine. Me: Stories of My Life.
Admired and beloved by movie audiences for over sixty years, four-time Academy Award-winner Katharine Hepburn is an American classic. Now Ms. Hepburn breaks her long-kept silence about her private life in this absorbing and provocative memoir.
Hill, Frances. A Delusion of Satan: The Full Story of the Salem Witch Trials.
Almost everyone knows something about the infamous Salem witch trials, but few are privy to the chilling details that Hill, a British novelist and journalist turned scholar, reveals in her superb and boldly analytical study. Hill documents every grim particular of this travesty of justice and terrifying example of the power of suggestion, from the very first accusations to the last brutal executions. As Hill tells the all but unbelievable tale about how a group of girls accused innocent women from all walks of life of practicing witchcraft, thus instigating a year of mass hysteria and causing the death of 25 people, she emphasizes the harshness, sterility, and repressiveness of seventeenth-century New England Puritan life.
Hoose, Phillip. We Were There, Too! Young People in U.S. History
From the boys who sailed with Columbus to today's young activists, this unique book brings to life the contributions of young people throughout American history. Based on primary sources and including 160 authentic images, this handsome oversized volume highlights the fascinating stories of more than 70 young people from diverse cultures. Young readers will be hooked into history as they meet individuals their own age who were caught up in our country's most dramatic moments-Olaudah Equiano, kidnapped from his village in western Africa and forced into slavery, Anyokah, who helped her father create a written Cherokee language, Johnny Clem, the nine-year-old drummer boy who became a Civil War hero, and Jessica Govea, a teenager who risked joining Cesar Chavez's fight for a better life for farm workers. Throughout, Philip Hoose's own lively, knowledgeable voice provides a rich historical context-making this not only a great reference-but a great read.
Jones, Dorothy Holder and Ruth Sexton Sargent. The Original Biography of Abbie Burgess: Lighthouse Heroine.
Born in Maine in 1839 and with a limited education, Abbie tended the lights faithfully for most of her life. One week after her father received his appointment as lighthouse keeper at Matinicus Rock, Abbie inherited the lamps. Her career as a lighthouse keeper spanned 38 years and saw her work at Matinicus and White Head Light Stations. Abbie was a heroine upon several occasions. She risked her safety and well being for the sake of her family and "those that go down to the sea ships."
Kaplan, Carla. Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters.
Whatever happened to Zora Neale Hurston? In the 1930s her stories, novels, folklore studies, and plays were all over the bestseller lists. By the '60s she was forgotten--a reversal of fortune captured in the extraordinary collection Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters.Why did Hurston's star fade? Simple weariness, her correspondence suggests. She was happier, it seems, tilling her Florida garden than revealing her soul to the world. She was also not shy of crossing swords with the likes of W.E.B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes, and in a time of growing militancy and the awakening civil rights movement Hurston became increasingly conservative, developing political stances that, editor Kaplan writes, "have often baffled her admirers." Hurston developed a pen-stilling, probably ungrounded suspicion that anything she wrote would be stolen by other writers, who would "then hate me for being alive to make their pretensions out a lie. And then take all kinds of steps to head me off."Having enjoyed early fame, Hurston died alone and in poverty. This well-assembled and very welcome book traces her sad path, and it adds much to our understanding of the once-neglected writer.
Keenan, Shelia. Scholastic Encyclopedia of Women in the United States.
Anne Bradstreet, Pocahontas, Lucretia Mott, Nellie Bly, Isadora Duncan, Amelia Earhart, Dr. Karen Horney, Marilyn Monroe, Oprah Winfrey, Hillary Rodham Clinton... these are women who, over the last 400 years, have helped shape the United States. Packed with intriguing photos and illustrations, this big, glorious volume chronicles and celebrates the lives and achievements of more than 250 American women for the benefit of tomorrow's history-makers.
Lane, Ann J. To "Herland" and Beyond: The Life and Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Lane illuminates the life and philosophy of feminist Gilman (1860-1935), whose story "The Yellow Wallpaper" reflected a personal experience with depression; we learn of Gilman's friends and family, her international recognition as a theorist and social commentator, and her belief in women's rights to full equality and autonomy.
Larson, Kate Clifford. Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman, Portrait of An American Hero.
Araminta Ross, better known as Harriet Tubman, was born a slave in 1822 on Maryland's Eastern Shore. In 1849, after hearing that she might be sold to settle her late master's debt, she escaped and began a life of sacrifice to help others escape as well. But Tubman's efforts didn't stop there. She played a vital role in the events of the Civil War and, in her later years, supported the fight for women's rights. Until the end of her life, she fought against the bigotry and injustice faced daily by African Americans. Using a clear writing style, Larson does an excellent job of placing Tubman in the context of her times.
León, Vicki. Uppity Women of Medieval Times
Vicki León, tireless explorer of the past, has gathered a treasure of information from sources written, etched, carved and painted, to reconstruct the lives of wild women who wouldn’t keep their places. From Queen Elizabeth to Joan of Arc, from Artemisia Gentileschi to Damia al-Kahina, this collection of medieval women who took history into their own hands will mesmerize, amuse, and inspire you.
Lipsitz, George. Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940's.
Rainbow at Midnight details the origins and evolution of working-class strategies for independence during and after World War II. Arguing that the 1940s may well have been the most revolutionary decade in U.S. history, George Lipsitz combines popular culture, politics,
