On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library

On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library
Author: Glory Edim
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2021-10-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1631497707

An NPR Best Book of the Year Proudly introducing the Well-Read Black Girl Library Series, On Girlhood is a lovingly curated anthology celebrating short fiction from such luminaries as Rita Dove, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and more. Featuring stories by: Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, Dorothy West, Rita Dove, Camille Acker, Toni Cade Bambara, Amina Gautier, Alexia Arthurs, Dana Johnson, Alice Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Edwidge Danticat, Shay Youngblood, Paule Marshall, and Zora Neale Hurston. “When you look over your own library, who do you see?” asks Well-Read Black Girl founder Glory Edim in this lovingly curated anthology. Bringing together an array of “unforgettable, and resonant coming-of-age stories” (Nicole Dennis-Benn), Edim continues her life’s work to brighten and enrich American reading lives through the work of both canonical and contemporary Black authors—from Jamaica Kincaid and Toni Morrison to Dana Johnson and Alexia Arthurs. Divided into four themes—Innocence, Belonging, Love, and Self-Discovery—On Girlhood features fierce young protagonists who contend with trials that shape who they are and what they will become. At times heartbreaking and hilarious, the stories within push past flat stereotypes and powerfully convey the beauty of Black girlhood, resulting in an indispensable compendium for every home library. “A compelling anthology that . . . results in a literary master class.” —Keishel Williams, Washington Post “A beautiful and comforting patchwork quilt of stories from our literary contemporaries and foremothers.” —Ibi Zoboi, New York Times best-selling coauthor of Punching the Air

Girlhood and the Politics of Place

Girlhood and the Politics of Place
Author: Claudia Mitchell
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2016-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0857456474

Examining context-specific conditions in which girls live, learn, work, play, and organize deepens the understanding of place-making practices of girls and young women worldwide. Focusing on place across health, literary and historical studies, art history, communications, media studies, sociology, and education allows for investigations of how girlhood is positioned in relation to interdisciplinary and transnational research methodologies, media environments, geographic locations, history, and social spaces. This book offers a comprehensive reading on how girlhood scholars construct and deploy research frameworks that directly engage girls in the research process.

The Girl-Positive Library

The Girl-Positive Library
Author: Mary Ann Harlan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2018-12-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1440860645

Providing a model of critique useful in readers advisory, collection development, and book clubs, this title encourages the inclusion of young adult titles advancing a positive representation of girls in programming and instruction. Even in an era in which there are multiple and wide-ranging conversations about representations of diverse groups in literature, the depiction of girls in young adult literature has received inadequate attention. This text provides a model for understanding how girls are represented in young adult literature that will aid school and youth services librarians in their personal understanding and awareness as they build collections and create programming. It provides practical suggestions for how to use and implement a feminist lens while reading, discussing, and reviewing titles. Included are a list of recommended annotated titles and discussion questions for use in developing appropriate instructional and interesting programs that explore concepts of girlhood, media literacy programs, and diverse collections.

A Girl Like Me

A Girl Like Me
Author: Angela Johnson
Publisher: Millbrook Press (Tm)
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2020
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1541557778

A joyful celebration of girls of color that encourages girls to reject limitations and follow their dreams.

Beautiful Girlhood

Beautiful Girlhood
Author: Mabel Hale
Publisher:
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1922
Genre: Christian life
ISBN:

A guide to building a good character, offering teenage girls practical wisdom on the classic issues that every teenager faces from a biblical perspective.

Girlhood

Girlhood
Author: Melissa Febos
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2021-03-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1635572533

National Book Critics Circle Award Winner National Bestseller Lambda Literary Award Finalist NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME * NPR * The Washington Post * Kirkus Reviews * Washington Independent Review of Books * The Millions * Electric Literature * Ms Magazine * Entropy Magazine * Largehearted Boy * Passerbuys “Irreverent and original.” –New York Times “Magisterial.” –The New Yorker “An intoxicating writer.” –The Atlantic “A classic!” –Mary Karr “A true light in the dark.” –Stephanie Danler “An essential, heartbreaking project.” –Carmen Maria Machado A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and brilliant guide to transforming the self and our society. In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female and what it takes to free oneself from them. When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she'd been told about herself and the habits and defenses she'd developed over years of trying to meet others' expectations. The values she and so many other women had learned in girlhood did not prioritize their personal safety, happiness, or freedom, and she set out to reframe those values and beliefs. Blending investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship, Febos charts how she and others like her have reimagined relationships and made room for the anger, grief, power, and pleasure women have long been taught to deny. Written with Febos' characteristic precision, lyricism, and insight, Girlhood is a philosophical treatise, an anthem for women, and a searing study of the transitions into and away from girlhood, toward a chosen self.

Exploring American Girlhood through 50 Historic Treasures

Exploring American Girlhood through 50 Historic Treasures
Author: Ashley E. Remer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2021-05-07
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1538120909

Who are the girls that helped build America? Conventional history books shed little light on the influence and impact of girls’ contributions to society and culture. This oversight is challenged by Girl Museum and their team, who give voices to the most neglected, yet profoundly impactful, historical narratives of American history: young girls. Exploring American Girls’ History through 50 Historic Treasures showcases girls and their experiences through the lens of place and material culture. Discover how the objects and sites that girls left behind tell stories about America that you have never heard before. Readers will journey from the first peoples who called the continent home, to 21st century struggles for civil rights, becoming immersed in stories that show how the local impacts the global and vice versa, as told by the girls who built America. Their stories, dreams, struggles, and triumphs are the centerpiece of the nation’s story as never before, helping to define both the struggle and meaning of being “American.” This full-color book is a must-read for those who yearn for more balanced representation in historic narratives, as well as an inspiration to young people, showing them that everyone makes history. It includes color photographs of all the treasured objects explored.

Pictures of Girlhood

Pictures of Girlhood
Author: Sarah Hentges
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2015-01-09
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 147660858X

Although the "coming of age" story has been a popular film plot for decades, producers have only recently realized the commercial potential of targeting films to adolescent girls. Movies like Clueless, Legally Blonde and Mean Girls have been successfully marketed to teenage girls, as have several well-known independent films. Important as both cultural indicators and catalysts, these films simultaneously demonstrate pop culture's influence on girls' films, and the ability of girls' films to affect pop culture and perceptions of girlhood. This critical survey of film and the modern girl concentrates largely on films of the last two decades, addressing key themes for girls within "coming of age" films, the changing (but not always improving) young feminine paradigm, and the ways these films can be powerful determinants of culture. The first chapter explores the ways in which girls' films construct, reinforce, challenge and dismantle mainstream conceptualizations of sexuality, race and power. The second chapter discusses mainstream limitations of "coming of age" narratives, including recycled plots and stars, treatments of parental and male authority, and adult conceptualizations of adolescence. The third chapter describes girls' experiences within these narratives through such conventions as attitude, teen fashion, music and dance, unsanctioned rites of passage, and race. The fourth chapter covers the negotiation of sex and sexuality, virginity and sexual empowerment. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

The Library of Girlhood

The Library of Girlhood
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 8152
Release: 2022-11-13
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN:

DigiCat presents to you this meticulously edited collection of the most revered and influential stories and biographies for the heroines of the future: Novels: Little Women Anne of Green Gables Series Rose in Bloom Pride and Prejudice Emma Jane Eyre Heidi Emily of New Moon Alice in Wonderland The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Secret Garden A Little Princess Peter and Wendy The Girl from the Marsh Croft The Nutcracker and the Mouse King The Princess and the Goblin At the Back of the North Wind A Girl of the Limberlost Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Mother Carey's Chickens Pollyanna A Sweet Girl Graduate Daddy Long-Legs Understood Betsy The Luckiest Girl in the School What Katy Did Patty Fairfield Two Little Women on a Holiday Mildred Keith The Wide, Wide World The Silver Skates Six to Sixteen The Wind in the Willows The Box-Car Children Five Children and It The Phoenix and the Carpet The Story of the Amulet The Railway Children Journey to the Centre of the Earth Great Expectations Rapunzel Cinderella Snow-white The Twelve Brothers Little Match Girl Little Mermaid Thumbelina... The Heroines of the Past: Biographies & Memoirs Helen Keller: The Story of My Life Harriet, The Moses of Her People Joan of Arc Saint Catherine Vittoria Colonna Catherine de' Medici Mary Queen of Scots Pocahontas Priscilla Alden Catherine the Great Marie Antoinette Fanny Burney Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. Anthony Catherine Douglas Lady Jane Grey Flora Macdonald Madame Roland Grace Darling Sister Dora Florence Nightingale Augustina Saragoza Charlotte Bronte Dorothy Quincy Molly Pitcher Harriet Beecher Stowe Madame de Stael Elizabeth Van Lew Ida Lewis Clara Barton Virginia Reed Louisa M. Alcott Clara Morris Anna Dickinson Lucretia Sappho Xantippe Aspasia of Cyrus Portia Octavia Cleopatra Julia Domna Eudocia Hypatia The Lady Rowena Queen Elizabeth The Lady Elfrida The Countess of Tripoli Jane, Countess of Mountfort Laura de Sade The Countess of Richmond Elizabeth Woodville Jane Shore Catharine of Arragon Anne Boleyn Jane Addams ....

Girlhood and the Plastic Image

Girlhood and the Plastic Image
Author: Heather Warren-Crow
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1611685753

You are girlish, our images tell us. You are plastic. Girlhood and the Plastic Image explains how, revealing the increasing girlishness of contemporary media. The figure of the girl has long been prized for its mutability, for the assumed instability and flexibility of the not-yet-woman. The plasticity of girlish identity has met its match in the plastic world of digital art and cinema. A richly satisfying interdisciplinary study showing girlish transformation to be a widespread condition of mediation, Girlhood and the Plastic Image explores how and why our images promise us the adaptability of youth. This original and engaging study will appeal to a broad interdisciplinary audience including scholars of media studies, film studies, art history, and women's studies.