The Girls' Diary Project
Author: Shannon McFerran
Publisher: University of Victoria
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1550584871
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The Body Project
Author: Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-06-09
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0307755746
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe award-winning author of Fasting Girls explores what teenage girls have lost in this new world of freedom and consumerism—a world in which the body is their primary project. "Fascinating ... riveting ... Women and girls should read this fine book together." —The New York Times Book Review 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 character 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.
The Future of Palestinian Identity
Author: Sharif Kanaana
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2016-01-14
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 1443887862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the 1948 Nakba, around three quarters of a million Palestinians were driven out of their homes and became refugees. Since then, they have not been allowed to return to their homeland, but have not given up. Originally concentrated mainly in neighbouring Arab countries, they have, in their attempts for survival, spread throughout the world, and are now found in most European countries, the United States, Canada, and several South American countries. This book is a result of a conference held on the theme of “the Future of Palestinian Identity”, which resulted from a prevailing feeling among Palestinians, both academics and otherwise, that Palestinian identity seems to be suffering from a state of weakening and retreat. The conference was intended to increase awareness of the dangers threatening Palestinian identity. As a result, the contributions to this volume study, analyse, and suggest solutions to the problems facing Palestinian identity today, and centre around four main themes, namely: the history of the emergence and development of Palestinian national identity, considering the circumstances which led to its emergence and the main stages in this development; the constituent elements of Palestinian national identity, looking at what makes a person Palestinian and the shared symbols of Palestinian identity; the extent to which a shared Palestinian identity is necessary; and the future of this identity. Contributors include both Palestinian and international scholars.
Dear Data
Author: Giorgia Lupi
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2016-09-13
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1616895462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEqual parts mail art, data visualization, and affectionate correspondence, Dear Data celebrates "the infinitesimal, incomplete, imperfect, yet exquisitely human details of life," in the words of Maria Popova (Brain Pickings), who introduces this charming and graphically powerful book. For one year, Giorgia Lupi, an Italian living in New York, and Stefanie Posavec, an American in London, mapped the particulars of their daily lives as a series of hand-drawn postcards they exchanged via mail weekly—small portraits as full of emotion as they are data, both mundane and magical. Dear Data reproduces in pinpoint detail the full year's set of cards, front and back, providing a remarkable portrait of two artists connected by their attention to the details of their lives—including complaints, distractions, phone addictions, physical contact, and desires. These details illuminate the lives of two remarkable young women and also inspire us to map our own lives, including specific suggestions on what data to draw and how. A captivating and unique book for designers, artists, correspondents, friends, and lovers everywhere.
The American Diary of a Japanese Girl
Author: Yoné Noguchi
Publisher: Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Published: 2021-08-28
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 3986476768
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe American Diary of a Japanese Girl Yoné Noguchi - Tokio, Sept. 23rd My new page of life is dawning. A trip beyond the seas-Meriken Kenbutsu-it's not an ordinary event. It is verily the first event in our family history that I could trace back for six centuries. My today's dream of America-dream of a butterfly sipping on golden dews-was rudely broken by the artless chirrup of a hundred sparrows in my garden. "Chui, chui! Chui, chui, chui!" Bad sparrows! My dream was silly but splendid. Dream is no dream without silliness which is akin to poetry. If my dream ever comes true!
Project Girl
Author: Janet McDonald
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2000-10-10
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780520223455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author tells the story of her struggles to reconcile her ghetto background and the world of private schools, wealthy classmates, and important jobs offered to her because of her academic talent.
Project 1, 2, 3
Author: Paris Rosenthal
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0525575464
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLive your best life in lists of three with this guided journal inspired by New York Times bestselling author Amy Krouse Rosenthal and written by her daughter, Paris, to celebrate her legacy. Paris Rosenthal first collaborated with her mother, the writer behind the viral "Modern Love" column "You May Want to Marry My Husband," on the beloved children's book Dear Girl. Now, Paris turns her mother's final Instagram project into a guided journal that plays off the power of three by using the everyday tool of list making. The number three is magical--it's neither too much, nor too little, but just right. Each of the 365 prompts in this journal will help you quickly appreciate someone or something every day and express it in a list of three. For example: Things That Should Last Forever 1. Time 2. Luck 3. People With creative exercises throughout, Project 1, 2, 3 helps you capture special memories and moments in small bursts, leading you to make new connections and bring more happiness into your day-to-day.
Research and Research Methods for Youth Practitioners
Author: Simon Bradford
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-07-03
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1136627723
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRigorous research is crucial to effective work with young people and increasingly youth practitioners need to be able to develop, review and evidence their work using a variety of research and assessment tools. This text equips students and practitioners with a thorough understanding of research design, practice and dissemination, as well as approaches to evidence-based practice. A clear practice framework informs the book, outlining the significance of research to youth work, especially in relation to designing and developing services for young people. Research and Research Methods for Youth Practitioners: Analyses the research/practitioner role Explores the ethical context of research in youth work Offers a thorough analysis of key methodological questions in research in practice Provides a guide to data collection and analysis Presents five principal research strategies for youth work: ethnographic work and visual methods; interviewing and evaluation; surveys and evaluation; the use of secondary data and documentary analysis; and researching virtual and online settings Discusses the implications of research for work with young people as well as its dissemination. Written by experienced researchers and practitioner-researchers, each chapter in this accessible textbook includes an overview, a critical discussion of the pros and cons of the particular method or approach, a case study, a practice-based task, a summary and suggestions for further reading. This textbook is invaluable for student and practising youth workers. It is also a useful reference for other practitioners working with young people.
Doodle Diary
Author: Dawn Sokol
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Published: 2010-08-01
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1423619722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTurn your doodles into a personal journal and into art, to boot! In the tradition of Keri Smith (Wreck This Journal, This Is Not a Book), Dawn DeVries Sokol has created a fun, easy artist's journal to get kids started with the basics. Doodle about your day; makes lists of your favorite things; write goals and daydream; try different mediums like pens, watercolors, and found art; add in family photos or ticket stubs; use Xerox transfers; and much, much more to create a casual, playful, and often thoughtful journal of your life.
Anne Frank
Author: Anne Frank
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780671430290
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the life of a young Jewish girl who kept a diary during the two years she and her family hid from the Germans in an Amsterdam attic.
