'Girl Power'
'Girl Power'

Author: Dawn Currie

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780820488776

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'Girl Power': Girls Reinventing Girlhood examines the identity practices of girls who have grown up in the context of 'girl power' culture. The book asks whether - and which - girls have benefited from this feminist-inspired movement. Can girls truly become anything they want, as suggested by those who claim that the traditional mandate of femininity - compliance to male interests - is a thing of the past? To address such questions, the authors distinguish between 'girlhood' as a cultural ideal, and girls as the embodied agents through which girlhood becomes a social accomplishment. The book identifies significant issues for parents and teachers of girls, and offers suggestions for 'critical social literacy' as a classroom practice that recognizes the ways popular culture mediates young people's understanding of gender. 'Girl Power' will be of interest to researchers of contemporary gender identities, as well as educational professionals and adult girl advocates. It is relevant for students in gender studies and teacher-education courses, as well as graduate student researchers.

Girl Power in the Mirror
Girl Power in the Mirror

Author: Helen Cordes

Publisher: Lerner Publications

Published: 1999-08-01

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 0822506092

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This book tackles the questions girls have about their bodies and their looks. Author Helen Cordes asked dozens of girls around the country how they feel about themselves. She shares their revelations and a few of her own, providing new insight into what girls see in the mirror, and ultimately, within themselves.

Girls in Power
Girls in Power

Author: Laura Fingerson

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2012-02-01

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0791480976

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Girls in Power offers a fascinating and unique look at the social aspects of menstruation in the lives of adolescent girls—and also in the lives of adolescent boys. Although there has been much research on other aspects of gender and the body, this is one of the few books to examine menstruation and the first to explore how it plays a part in power interactions between boys and girls. Talking openly in single- and mixed-gender settings, individuals and groups of high school–age girls and boys share their interpretations and experiences of menstruation. Author Laura Fingerson reveals that while teens have negative feelings about menstruation, teen girls use their experiences of menstruation as a source of embodied power in their interactions with other girls and with boys. She also explores how boys deal with their own reduced power. The book extends our theoretical and analytical understanding of youth, gender, power, and embodiment by providing a more balanced view of adolescent social life.

Growing Up with Girl Power
Growing Up with Girl Power

Author: Rebecca C. Hains

Publisher: Mediated Youth

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781433111389

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Growing Up With Girl Power considers how real girls who grew up with girl power interpreted its messages about empowerment, girlhood, strength, femininity, race, and more, and suggests that for young girls, commercialized girl power had real strengths and limitations - sometimes in fascinating, unexpected ways.

Wilder Girls
Wilder Girls

Author: Rory Power

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2019-07-11

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1529021278

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'Your new favourite book' – Cosmopolitan An instant New York Times bestseller, Wilder Girls is Rory Power's chilling and unputdownable YA debut. The Power meets We Were Liars in this compelling story of survival and the power of female friendships, perfect for fans of A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. Everyone loses something to the Tox; Hetty lost her eye, Reese's hand has changed, and Byatt just disappeared completely. It’s been eighteen months since the Raxter School for Girls was put in quarantine. The Tox turned the students strange and savage, the teachers died off one by one. Cut off from the mainland, the girls don’t dare wander past the school’s fence where the Tox has made the woods wild and dangerous. They wait for the cure as the Tox takes; their bodies becoming sick and foreign, things bursting out of them, bits missing. But when Byatt goes missing, Hetty will do anything to find her best friend, even if it means breaking quarantine and braving the horrors that lie in the wilderness past the fence. As she digs deeper, she learns disturbing truths about her school and what else is living on Raxter Island. And that the cure might not be a cure at all . . . 'Wholly original and compelling' – Observer 'A staggering gut punch of a book' – Kirkus 'Body horror meets boarding school in a moving, terrifying thriller' Guardian

Girls Can Do Anything!
Girls Can Do Anything!

Author: Caryl Hart

Publisher: Scholastic UK

Published: 2018-08-02

Total Pages: 35

ISBN-13: 1407191217

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Do you want to climb a mountain? Drive a fire engine? Become prime minister? Join the girls in the pages of this book to see the incredible things they do every day and find out what you might like to do, too! A picture book for every girl with a dream.

Cheetah Girls #8: Growl Power
Cheetah Girls #8: Growl Power

Author: Deborah Gregory

Publisher: Jump At The Sun

Published: 2000-08-28

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780786814275

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When Aquanette and Anginette go back to Houston to visit their mom for Thanksgiving, they cause a big stir in their hometown with their new "cheetah-ness". The rest of the girls then join the twins and turn on their "growl power" to get one step closer to fame.

Girl Power
Girl Power

Author: Hillary Carlip

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2009-10-31

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0446567531

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In this searing feminist compilation, Carlip illuminates the worries, hopes, dreams and experiences of girls ages 13 to 19, through their stories, poems, letters, and notes. In this pages of this book, Hillary Carlip -- an American author and visual artist, whose work has been featured alongside Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst -- spotlights the inner workings of the teenage mind, as expressed through personal writings. The girls' voices come from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives -- cowgals, lesbians, teen mothers, sorority sisters and girls in gangs -- and reveal the depth, vulnerability, wisdom, and power of the writers.

Girl Power
Girl Power

Author: Jin In

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-07-31

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781009481885

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This Element harnesses new data about gender and sustainability, presents inspiring stories of empowerment, and introduces a framework of building empowerment muscles. It unveils three shocking truths about young women's empowerment as well as disempowerment and patterns of environmental degradation, violence, and exclusion. It presents seven case studies of empowerment from around the world, each matched with distinct skill - a muscle of empowerment. The empowerment muscles are focus, hope, courage, advocacy, solidarity, endurance, and healing. From climate activist Greta Thunberg to the all-girl Afghan robotics team, the #NeverAgain movement against gun violence, to the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement, today's empowered girls are a transformative force for change. Lastly, unlike most works that use empowerment nebulously, this Element concretizes what empowerment is exactly - a set of muscles each reader can build and strengthen through 'workout' training exercises.