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HISTORY / Women Social movements Social movements United States History Teenage girls Abuse of Teenage girls Political activity United States History Teenage girls Sexual behavior United States Teenage girls United States United States Women Social conditions Young women Sexual behavior United StatesDellasega, Cheryl.
Summary: Weaves the author's own story of raising teenage daughters with the voices of dozens of other mothers of girls. Annotation. Dellasega (Penn State College of Medicine), who leads therapeutic writing workshops, solicited autobiographical essays from mothers of troubled teenage daughters. The 200 essays are presented here, chronicling the mothers' experiences with daughters who were anorexic,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.8743 DELBrumberg, Joan Jacobs.
Summary: "Girls today are in crisis - and this book shows why. Drawing on a vast array of lively historical sources, unpublished diaries by adolescent girls, and photographs that conjure up memories of the past, The Body Project chronicles how growing up in a female body has changed over the past century and why that experience is more difficult today than ever before." "Girls' bodies have certainly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.235 BRUFlanagan, Caitlin.
Summary: Describes the modern transition from girl to woman and discusses the changes that have taken place in the process over the past thirty years while finding that the landmarks through the journey have remained the same.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.235 FLASales, Nancy Jo
Summary: Explores the changes in the way teenage girls are growing up in America, discussing the new norms, from extreme behaviors to lack of basic communication skills.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.7 WOLHinshaw, Stephen P.
Contents: Impossible expectations -- Blue jeans and "blue" genes: depression and the triple bind -- Life in the pressure cooker: impossible expectations and the culture of busy-ness -- No place to run, no place to hide: the popular culture of "self-erasing identities" -- When virtue is its own punishment: how empathy and verbal skills may put our girls at higher risk -- Bratz dolls and pussycat dolls:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 155.533 HINKeane, Erin
Summary: "In 1970, Erin Keane's mother ran away from home for the first time. She was thirteen years old. Over the next several years, and under two assumed identities, she hitchhiked her way across America, experiencing freedom, hardship, and tragedy. At fifteen, she met a man in New York City and married him. He was thirty-six. Though a deft balance of journalistic digging, cultural criticism, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belt Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEANE, ERIN KEAKahn, Mattie
Summary: "The untold history of the people who helped spark America's most important social movements from the Revolutionary War to today: teenage girls. Nine months before Rosa Parks, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1912, women's rights activists organized a massive march in support of women's suffrage, led up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 KAHOrenstein, Peggy
Summary: Presents an analysis of the new sexual landscape faced by girls in today's high schools and colleges, revealing hidden truths, hard lessons, and important possibilities in girls' modern-world sex lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016