Skin Game

Skin Game
Author: Caroline Kettlewell
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2000-06-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780312263935

A memoir in which the author, a former "cutter," discusses the reasons why she began cutting herself as an adolescent, and shares the story of how she was finally able to overcome the affliction.

Preventing Violence in Schools

Preventing Violence in Schools
Author: Joan N. Burstyn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2001-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135652775

Examines the complex problem of school violence using qualitative & ethnographic data from observations, individual interviews, & focus groups, as well as published data. Analyzes violence preventions programs & assesses their effectiveness.

Lynda Barry

Lynda Barry
Author: Susan E. Kirtley
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2012-01-25
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1617032360

Best known for her long-running comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek, illustrated fiction (Cruddy, The Good Times Are Killing Me), and graphic novels (One! Hundred! Demons!), the art of Lynda Barry (b. 1956) has branched out to incorporate plays, paintings, radio commentary, and lectures. With a combination of simple, raw drawings and mature, eloquent text, Barry's oeuvre blurs the boundaries between fiction and memoir, comics and literary fiction, and fantasy and reality. Her recent volumes What It Is (2008) and Picture This (2010) fuse autobiography, teaching guide, sketchbook, and cartooning into coherent visions. In Lynda Barry: Girlhood through the Looking Glass, author Susan E. Kirtley examines the artist's career and contributions to the field of comic art and beyond. The study specifically concentrates on Barry's recurring focus on figures of young girls, in a variety of mediums and genres. Barry follows the image of the girl through several lenses—from text-based novels to the hybrid blending of text and image in comic art, to art shows and coloring books. In tracing Barry's aesthetic and intellectual development, Kirtley reveals Barry's work to be groundbreaking in its understanding of femininity and feminism.

Interrogating Postfeminism

Interrogating Postfeminism
Author: Yvonne Tasker
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2007-11-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780822340324

DIVFeminist essays examining postfeminism in American and British popular culture./div

ChildDance

ChildDance
Author: Diane Lynch Fraser
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2000
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0595099726

Imagine there is no one in the world with whom you can communicate. All your attempts to reach out and make sense in the world are thwarted because there is no one who understands your language. This is a normal event in child development. Yet the child with disabilities has less adaptive skills than other children her age. Attempts are more frustrating. To make matters worse, the whole circle of communication between adult and child becomes thwarted as parents and therapists, instead of reading nonverbal cues accurately, misjudge them and send the whole communication circle spiraling downward. The character, the pacing, the whole theatre of our play and movement with young children is extremely important. As we believe children must learn to speak, we adults, parents and therapists, must learn to play. It’s not that adults are not well meaning. Very many are. It’s just that most adults have no idea "how to be" in the child’s preverbal world. It is to this preverbal task that ChildDance is addressed. It describes one therapist’s encounter with six different children with special needs, how child development theory and practice is woven together to form a fabric for preverbal communication.

Girlness

Girlness
Author: Diane Peters
Publisher: Lorimer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-01-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781459411869

It's hard enough being a girl on the brink of puberty without dealing with a barrage of mixed messages about femininity. From self-image to peer pressure, consumerism to feminism, girls have a lot to grapple with. This volume looks at issues relating to gender identity and how girls can cope with the conflicts that arise when we question what it means to be female.

Girl Groups, Girl Culture

Girl Groups, Girl Culture
Author: Jacqueline Warwick
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2013-10-31
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135875782

Then He Kissed Me, He's A Rebel, Chains, Stop! In the Name of Love all these songs capture the spirit of an era and an image of "girlhood" in post-World War II America that still reverberates today. While there were over 1500 girl groups recorded in the '60s--including key hitmakers like the Ronettes, the Supremes, and the Shirelles - studies of girl-group music that address race, gender, class, and sexuality have only just begun to appear. Warwick is the first writer to address '60s girl group music from the perspective of its most significant audience--teenage girls--drawing on current research in psychology and sociology to explore the important place of this repertoire in the emotional development of young girls of the baby boom generation. Girl Groups, Girl Culture stands as a landmark study of this important pop music and cultural phenomenon. It promises to be a classic work in American musicology and cultural studies.