Growing Up Female
Author : Abigail Heyman
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 27,22 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Abigail Heyman
Publisher : Holt McDougal
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 27,22 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Valerie Walkerdine
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 2001-09-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 033364784X
Girls growing up today face huge changes in the organisation of family, education and work. This book explores the complex ways that wealth and poverty, class and ethnicity, are going to impact on the lives of girls and women today.
Author : Milena Kaličanin
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 144388474X
This book explores contemporary transformations of the female Bildungsroman, showing that the intersection of the genre and gender brought to critical attention in the context of second wave feminism remains of equal importance in the era of postfeminism. The female Bildung narrative has acquired an important position in twentieth – and twenty-first century literature through its continuing depiction of female self-discovery and emancipation as a process of negotiating the traditional divisions of female and male roles in relation to the private and public spaces. Recognizing the seminal contribution of feminist criticism to the definition of the genre and the role of feminist cultural processes in its thematic developments, this volume investigates more recent influences on the female Bildung narrative and the influence of the classic female Bildungsroman on contemporary cultural texts. As a collection of fifteen essays written by international scholars, the book offers a representative sample of the narratives of female development, presenting a variety of genres, including the novel, the short story, autobiography, TV series, and Internet video blogs, and theoretical frameworks, adopting hermeneutic, postcolonial, feminist, and postfeminist perspectives. In its diversity, this volume reveals that, despite the ongoing process of women’s emancipation, the heroine’s struggle with the private/public divide has remained, throughout the twentieth century and in the first decades of the new millennium, a central issue in stories about the female quest for self-definition. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of literary, women and gender studies, particularly those interested in the narratives of female development that represent American and British cultural contexts.
Author : Filzah Sumartono
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 50,78 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Muslim women
ISBN : 9789811176838
Author : Lucinda Jackson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1631526634
Just A Girl is the sensitive, personal story of the author’s ambition to become and succeed as a scientist during the “white man in power” era of the 1950s to 2010s. In the male-dominated science world, she struggles from girlhood unworthiness to sexist battles in jobs on the farms and in the restaurants of America, in academia’s laboratories and field research communities, and in the executive corner office. Jackson overcomes pain, shame, and self-blame, learns to believe in herself when others don’t, and becomes a champion for others. The turbulent legal and social background of sexual harassment and sexism in America over seven decades is delivered as “history with emotion.” Just a Girl is also a call to action: it identifies the court cases and lawsuits that helped advance the cultural changes we see today; outlines the pressing need for a Boys and Men Liberation (BAML) movement; highlights new approaches by parents; advocates for changes in our universities; and suggests a different direction for corporate America to take to stop the cycle of sexual harassment. Eye-opening and inspiring, it points the way to a brighter future for women everywhere.
Author : Michelle Tea
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,54 MB
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1580056679
An urgent testament to the trials of life for women living without a financial safety net Indie icon Michelle Tea -- whose memoir The Chelsea Whistle details her own working-class roots in gritty Chelsea, Massachusetts -- shares these fierce, honest, tender essays written by women who can't go home to the suburbs when ends don't meet. When jobs are scarce and the money has dwindled, these writers have nowhere to go but below the poverty line. The writers offer their different stories not for sympathy or sadness, but an unvarnished portrait of how it was, is, and will be for generations of women growing up working class in America. These wide-ranging essays cover everything from selling blood for grocery money to the culture shock of "jumping" class. Contributors include Dorothy Allison, Bee Lavender, Eileen Myles, and Daisy Hernáez.
Author : Susan J. Douglas
Publisher : Crown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,81 MB
Release : 1995-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0812925300
Media critic Douglas deconstructs the ambiguous messages sent to American women via TV programs, popular music, advertising, and nightly news reporting over the last 40 years, and fathoms their influence on her own life and the lives of her contemporaries. Photos.
Author : Laura Bates
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Humor
ISBN : 150116919X
"They" told you that you need to be thin and beautiful; warned you that if you try to be strong, or take control, you'll be shrill, bossy, a ballbreaker. Well, screw that. Bates is here to expose the truth about the pressures surrounding body image, the trials of social media, and all the other lies society has told us. The result is no-nonsense advice on sex, social media, mental health, and sexism that young women face in their everyday life.
Author : Penny Colman
Publisher : Scholastic Nonfiction
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 15,29 MB
Release : 2003-02-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780590371308
Traces the history of growing up female in America as told by the girls themselves in journals, household manuals, letters, slave narratives, and other primary sources. By the author of Rosie the Riveter. Reprint.
Author : Patricia Reilly Giff
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0147513642
A biography of the author of the "Little House" books, including the years of her marriage to Almanzo Wilder.