Book Description
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 : Penny Colman
Publisher : Scholastic Nonfiction
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,65 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 : Eve Merriam
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 10,21 MB
Release : 1987-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807070093
This multicultural anthology of excerpts from the journals, letters, and autobiographies of ten women portrays life as it was lived across America from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century.
Author : Susan J. Douglas
Publisher : Crown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 19,78 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 : Eve Merriam
Publisher : Dell Publishing Company
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 37,34 MB
Release : 1973-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780440332695
Author : Duchess Harris
Publisher : Essential Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Girls
ISBN : 9781532113062
Girls growing up in America face sexist school dress code policies, pressure to meet impossible beauty standards, and gender-based violence. This title looks at the differences between the girl and boy experiences of growing up and the steps people can take to address sexist practices. Features include a glossary, essential facts, references, websites, source notes, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Essential Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Author : Wini Breines
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 13,51 MB
Release : 2001-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780226072616
The experts' fifties : women, men, and male social scientists -- Family legacies -- Sexual puzzles -- The other fifties : beats, bad girls, and rock and roll -- Alone in the fifties : Anne Parsons and the feminine mystique.
Author : Penny Colman
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780847993758
Author : Barbara Anne White
Publisher :
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 36,86 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Adolescence in literature
ISBN :
Author : Sadie Penzato
Publisher : Penzato Enterprises
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,98 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Judy W. Mann
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780446517072
Explores the cultural link between dominance and gender and its effect on the raising of girls and boys alike, with information from schools, music, texts, and other sources