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Book Synopsis It's Different for Girls by : Jo Brand
Download or read book It's Different for Girls written by Jo Brand and published by Review. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderfully funny and poignant novel about growing up in the seventies, teenage angst, growing pains and first love. Rachel and Susan do not like to be beside the seaside. Hastings is so uncool. Plunging headfirst into the choppy waters of adolescence, they are determined to survive their teens by sticking together. It’s a rollercoaster ride of nutty parents, randy language students, stoned hippies, all-night parties on the pier, and an amusement arcade of emotional neediness.
Book Synopsis Feminism for Girls by : Angela McRobbie
Download or read book Feminism for Girls written by Angela McRobbie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminism for Girls presents feminist perspectives on aspects of adolescence which have been chosen for their special relevance to the lives and experiences of girls and young women today. Illustrated throughout, chapters cover themes and topics which include romance and sexuality, girls' magazines, careers and the reality of being a black girl in society today. Housewives look back at their youth and a sixteen-year-old girl writes vividly about what it's like trying to break out of the mould that parents and others so often expect for girls. This book is written for girls and young women themselves and for people who are, like the contributors, currently teaching or working with girls.
Book Synopsis Bullying in Popular Culture by : Abigail G. Scheg
Download or read book Bullying in Popular Culture written by Abigail G. Scheg and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public awareness of bullying has increased tremendously in recent years, largely through its representation in film, television and novels. In popular media targeted towards young readers and viewers, depictions of bullying can present teachable moments and relatable situations. Written from a variety of perspectives, this collection of new essays offers a broad overview of bullying. The contributors discuss the changing face of bullying in popular media, bullying among females, parents who cyberbully, anti-bullying novels, the phenomenon of a Schadenfreude obsessed culture, and how reality television shapes youth perceptions of what is acceptable aggressiveness.
Book Synopsis Gender, Power and Restorative Justice by : Jodie Hodgson
Download or read book Gender, Power and Restorative Justice written by Jodie Hodgson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book ties restorative justice into the exercise of patriarchal power. It is focused on the individual narratives of 15 girls and young women who have participated in a victim-offender restorative justice (RJ) conference and the perspectives of youth justice practitioners. Gender, Power and Restorative Justice expands feminist engagement with RJ by focusing critical attention on the importance of the social construction of gender, the exercise of power, shame, stigma, muting and resistance to girls’ experiences of RJ conferencing. Drawing upon recent developments to the sociology of stigma and feminist perspectives on shame, the book contends that RJ conferencing can produce harmful implications for girls and young women who participate. Ultimately it is argued that anti-carceral, social policy alternatives, underpinned by feminist praxis, should replace a youth justice jurisprudence for girls. This book will be of particular use and interest to those studying modules on criminology, youth justice, criminal justice and social work courses.
Book Synopsis Different--A Great Thing to Be! by : Heather Avis
Download or read book Different--A Great Thing to Be! written by Heather Avis and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This joyful rhyming book encourages children to value the “different” in all people, leading the way to a kinder world in which the differences in all of us are celebrated and embraced. Macy is a girl who’s a lot like you and me, but she's also quite different, which is a great thing to be. With kindness, grace, and bravery, Macy finds her place in the world, bringing beauty and laughter wherever she goes and leading others to find delight in the unique design of every person. Children are naturally aware of the differences they encounter at school, in their neighborhood, and in other everyday relationships. They just need to be given tools to understand and appreciate what makes us “different,” permission to ask questions about it, and eyes to see and celebrate it in themselves as well as in those around them.
Book Synopsis Different for Girls by : Louise Wener
Download or read book Different for Girls written by Louise Wener and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story of an ordinary girl's transformation from awkward 80s suburban pop geek to 90s jet-set pop goddess. It's about the embarrassments of growing up and experimenting with who you are and how pop music is both the comic and life-affirming soundtrack that runs through it all. Different for Girls is for anyone who ever sang into a hairbrush and slow-danced to Spandau Ballet's True. It's about growing up with Look-In and Jackie magazine and daubing your hair with poster paint to look more like Toyah Wilcox. It's about bad perms, bad boyfriends and the nagging feeling that no man will quite measure up to Nick Heyward from Haircut One Hundred. It's also about the journey from bad band to great band, from gigs in toilets to gigs in stadiums with all the mistakes, joys, disappointments and successes in between. It's a journey which starts with a 12-year-old perfecting her dance routine to Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights in front of TOTPs and ends, almost 20 years later, with the same girl having REM's Michael Stipe sing happy birthday to her on a warm summer's evening accompanied by 70,000 strangers.
Book Synopsis Youth Working with Girls and Women in Community Settings by : Janet Batsleer
Download or read book Youth Working with Girls and Women in Community Settings written by Janet Batsleer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully revised and expanded edition of Janet Batsleer’s (1996) Working with Girls and Young Women in Community Settings provides a significantly updated text, incorporating new research, which will serve practitioners and academics well into the twenty-first century. Youth work with girls and young women has taken inspiration from feminisms and THE women’s movement, focussing on the strength and potential of girls as beings in their own right, rather than as carriers of social problems. Autonomous community-based projects of can affirm young women’s lives and creativity and seek to challenge oppression. Addressing the significant shifts in the social, political and professional context for informal education, this book makes clear the continuities in community-based informal education with girls and argues for its continuing importance. The impact of neo-liberal approaches to empowerment is highlighted throughout. Drawing together historical, theoretical and practice-based work, including case studies from a range of projects, Batsleer offers an analysis of the significant issues that will affect practice in the future and the significance of feminist inspired informal education rooted in specific community contexts. These include: The impact of violence, coercion and resistance, across a range of practices Female sexuality as a contested space The impact of poverty and the creation of networks of care and mutual support Difference and cross-cultural work, including inter-faith work and practice which challenges racism. This is an important source book for youth workers, social workers, and others involved in education outside of school as well as researchers in the practice and politics of youth work. It is an essential reference tool for researchers, as well as for both lecturers and students involved in the education and continuing professional development of youth and community workers and for those who wish to keep alive a radical alternative
Download or read book Blind Sight written by Meg Howrey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen-year-old Luke Prescott has been brought up in a bohemian matriarchy, surrounded by his divorced New Age mother, his religious grandmother, and two precocious half-sisters. He is writing his college applications when his father—a famous television star— invites him to Los Angeles for the summer. Luke accepts and is plunged into a world of location shooting, celebrity interviews, glamorous parties, and premieres. But as he begins to know the difference between his father’s public persona and his private one, Luke finds himself questioning the new history he has created for himself.
Book Synopsis HBO's Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege by : Elwood Watson
Download or read book HBO's Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege written by Elwood Watson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HBO’s Girls and the Awkward Politics of Gender, Race, and Privilege is a collection of essays that examines the HBO program Girls. Since its premiere in 2012, the series has garnered the attention of individuals from various walks of life. The show has been described in many terms: insightful, out-of-touch, brash, sexist, racist, perverse, complex, edgy, daring, provocative—just to name a few. Overall, there is no doubt that Girls has firmly etched itself in the fabric of early twenty-first-century popular culture. The essays in this book examine the show from various angles including: white privilege; body image; gender; culture; race; sexuality; parental and generational attitudes; third wave feminism; male emasculation and immaturity; hipster, indie, and urban music as it relates to Generation Y and Generation X. By examining these perspectives, this book uncovers many of the most pressing issues that have surfaced in the show, while considering the broader societal implications therein.
Book Synopsis Sites of Gender by : Barbara Lesley Brookes
Download or read book Sites of Gender written by Barbara Lesley Brookes and published by Auckland University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is the fruit of five years' work by a group of Dunedin scholars into the complex ways in which gender operated as a social structure and a shaping force in the lives of the inhabitants of southern Dunedin in the years from 1890 to World War II.
Download or read book Come as You Are written by Emily Nagoski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works—based on groundbreaking research and brain science—that will radically transform your sex life into one filled with confidence and joy. Researchers have spent the last decade trying to develop a “pink pill” for women to function like Viagra does for men. So where is it? Well, for reasons this book makes crystal clear, that pill will never be the answer—but as a result of the research that’s gone into it, scientists in the last few years have learned more about how women’s sexuality works than we ever thought possible, and Come as You Are explains it all. The first lesson in this essential, transformative book by Dr. Emily Nagoski is that every woman has her own unique sexuality, like a fingerprint, and that women vary more than men in our anatomy, our sexual response mechanisms, and the way our bodies respond to the sexual world. So we never need to judge ourselves based on others’ experiences. Because women vary, and that’s normal. Second lesson: sex happens in a context. And all the complications of everyday life influence the context surrounding a woman’s arousal, desire, and orgasm. Cutting-edge research across multiple disciplines tells us that the most important factor for women in creating and sustaining a fulfilling sex life, is not what you do in bed or how you do it, but how you feel about it. Which means that stress, mood, trust, and body image are not peripheral factors in a woman’s sexual wellbeing; they are central to it. Once you understand these factors, and how to influence them, you can create for yourself better sex and more profound pleasure than you ever thought possible. And Emily Nagoski can prove it.
Download or read book Hit Girls written by Jen B. Larson and published by Feral House. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Author's Note -- Foreword by Ann Magnuson -- Introduction -- Essays ¡Feminista! By Alice Bag -- Neo Boys Liner Notes by Suzi Creamcheese -- 1. Midwest: Hit Girls, Haute Girls -- Destroy All Monsters -- The Welders -- Nikki & -- the Corvettes -- Flirt -- Chi-Pig -- DA! -- The Shivvers -- The Waitresses -- Bitch -- The Dadistics -- The Cubes -- Unit 5 -- Ama-Dots -- The Dents -- Kate Fagan -- Algebra Suicide -- Dummy Club -- 2. South: Feast on My Heart -- Pylon -- Cichlids -- The Klitz -- The Delinquents -- Mydolls -- Screaming Sneakers -- The Cold -- F-Systems -- Teddy and the Frat Girls -- The Foams -- 3. Northwest: Guys Are Not Proud -- The Dishrags -- Chinas Comidas -- The Accident -- Neo Boys -- The Anemic Boyfriends -- Sado-Nation -- Art Object -- The Braphsmears -- The Visible Targets -- Bam Bam -- 4. West Coast (South): Manic in a Panic -- Backstage Pass -- The Bags -- The Controllers -- Castration Squad -- The Alley Cats -- The Eyes -- Suburban Lawns -- The Dinettes -- The Brat -- 45 Grave -- Tex & -- the Horseheads -- Sin 34 -- The Pandoras -- Screamin' Sirens -- 5. West Coast (North): Shake the Hands of Time -- Mary Monday -- The Nuns -- The Avengers -- The Blowdryers -- The Urge -- VS -- VKTMS -- U.X.A. -- IXNA -- Los Microwaves -- Romeo Void -- The Contractions -- Inflatable Boy Clams -- Wilma -- Frightwig -- 6. East Coast: Subversive Pleasure -- Jayne County -- Mars -- The Phantoms -- Helen Wheels Band -- 'B' Girls -- Teenage Jesus & -- the Jerks -- Cheap Perfume -- DNA -- Nasty Facts -- UT -- ESG -- Plasmatics -- Tiny Desk Unit -- Disturbed Furniture -- Bush Tetras -- Y Pants -- Egoslavia -- Dizzy and the Romilars -- Chalk Circle -- The Excuses -- Red C -- The Bloods -- Pulsallama -- IN MEMORIUM -- AUTHOR'S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CITATIONS -- INDEX.
Book Synopsis A Friday Night Lights Companion by : Leah Wilson
Download or read book A Friday Night Lights Companion written by Leah Wilson and published by BenBella Books. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called one of the best shows on TV by more than a dozen media publications, including Time and Entertainment Weekly, Friday Night Lights is not just one of the most critically acclaimed shows on air, it's also one of the most watchable. Despite its focus on high school football, its masterfully crafted characters and honestly portrayed relationships make its portrait of small town Texas life compelling and relatable in ways that have nothing to do with field goals or touchdowns. Love, Loss, and Dillon Football: A Friday Night Lights Companion explores the victories and pitfalls of Dillon, Texas – both the town itself and those who live and love there. Because Friday Night Lights is so much more than just a teenage football drama: it's about the struggle to not get trapped in the circumstances one is born into. It's about love, it's about loss, and, yes, it's even about football.
Book Synopsis The Lost Girls: Why a feminist revolution in education benefits everyone by : Charlotte Woolley
Download or read book The Lost Girls: Why a feminist revolution in education benefits everyone written by Charlotte Woolley and published by John Catt. This book was released on 2020-03-20 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life for girls is a battle of contrasting expectations, being told you should be 'empowered' but also be a 'good girl', putting others first but still striving for perfection yourself. This conflict, internalizing expectations of an impossible standard, has lead to an explosion in mental-health and anxiety-related disorders in young women. The traditional narrative of education feeds the perception that girls are good. They achieve, work hard, are co-operative. They achieve better grades. But where do these high achievers disappear to? They aren't becoming CEOs, politicians or social leaders. Women are still disproportionately the family carers and domestic managers. This book explores: * research around biological difference, and how our schools encode gendered expectations. * how our curricula can provide role-models as well as modes of thinking, valuing traditionally feminine traits as equal to masculine * using psychological approaches to develop girls' independence. * how school systems and leadership can model approaches to encourage all students to create a gender-balanced environment. With practical questions and suggestions at the end of each chapter, this book is a guide to the research and a tool to help teachers and leaders shape a genuinely empowering school experience for young women.
Book Synopsis Becoming Thuperman by : Elgon Williams
Download or read book Becoming Thuperman written by Elgon Williams and published by Pandamoon Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you could take make-believe and make it real? It’s the summer of 1988 and little is normal about Will and Sandra, except for the name of their town, Normal, Illinois. The two precocious eight-year-olds share overactive imaginations, a love of baseball and genuine affection for each other. But over the course of a single, fateful week at the beginning of their summer vacation the duo discovers budding superhero powers. Each day is a new adventure and an excuse for them to get on their bikes and enjoy being kids. Down the street from where they live is a spooky old house. An elderly woman and her older brother live there along with an overly protective dog that barks at the kids, frightening them as they pass by the house on their bikes. Children in the neighborhood believe the old lady is actually a witch and the old house is haunted. And there’s a rumor that she keeps kids locked in her basement. Sandra helps Will overcome his lack of confidence. Will convinces Sandra to stand up to her mother and become what she wants to be. Together, the kids use a map/maze that Sandra created to explore their imaginations, taking a detour through a fantastic world where they serve as fairy royalty. But when reality rudely intrudes on their idyllic world, Will and Sandra unlock their true potential as a crime fighting team when they are forced to save the day from two dangerous men.
Download or read book Higher Ground written by Greg J. Duncan and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2007-01-11 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1990s, growing demands to end chronic welfare dependency culminated in the 1996 federal "welfare-to-work" reforms. But regardless of welfare reform, the United States has always been home to a large population of working poor—people who remain poor even when they work and do not receive welfare. In a concentrated effort to address the problems of the working poor, a coalition of community activists and business leaders in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, launched New Hope, an experimental program that boosted employment among the city's poor while reducing poverty and improving children's lives. In Higher Ground, Greg Duncan, Aletha Huston, and Thomas Weisner provide a compelling look at how New Hope can serve as a model for national anti-poverty policies. New Hope was a social contract—not a welfare program—in which participants were required to work a minimum of thirty hours a week in order to be eligible for earnings supplements and health and child care subsidies. All participants had access to career counseling and temporary community service jobs. Drawing on evidence from surveys, public records of employment and earnings, in-depth interviews, and ethnographic observation, Higher Ground tells the story of this ambitious three-year social experiment and evaluates how participants fared relative to a control group. The results were highly encouraging. Poverty rates declined among families that participated in the program. Employment and earnings increased among participants who were not initially working full-time, relative to their counterparts in a control group. For those who had faced just one significant barrier to employment (such as a lack of access to child care or a spotty employment history), these gains lasted years after the program ended. Increased income, combined with New Hope's subsidies for child care and health care, brought marked improvements to the well-being and development of participants' children. Enrollment in child care centers increased, and fewer medical needs went unmet. Children performed better in school and exhibited fewer behavioral problems, and gains were particularly dramatic for boys, who are at the greatest risk for poor academic performance and behavioral disorders. As America takes stock of the successes and shortcomings of the Clinton-era welfare reforms, the authors convincingly demonstrate why New Hope could be a model for state and national policies to assist the working poor. Evidence based and insightfully written, Higher Ground illuminates how policymakers can make work pay for families struggling to escape poverty.
Book Synopsis Why Boys and Girls Are Different? by :
Download or read book Why Boys and Girls Are Different? written by and published by Damaris Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four titles in the 'Sexual Education Series' have been designed to help parents & teachers tackle this difficult subject with young children. To get the child's attention each book has fold-outs & interactive games. At the end of each book there is a special game that checks how much the child has understood.
