Powered By Girl

Author : Lyn Mikel Brown
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807094617
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Powered by Girl written by Lyn Mikel Brown and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A playbook for working with and training girls to be activists of their own social movements Drawing from a diverse collection of interviews with women and girl activists, Powered by Girl is both a journalistic exploration of how girls have embraced activism and a guide for adults who want to support their organizing. Here we learn about the intergenerational support behind thirteen-year-old Julia Bluhm when she got Seventeen to go Photoshop free; nineteen-year-old Celeste Montaño, who pressed Google to diversify their Doodles; and sixteen-year-old Yas Necati, who campaigns for better sex education. And we learn what experienced adult activists say about how to scaffold girls’ social-change work. Brown argues that adults shouldn’t encourage girls to “lean in.” Rather, girls should be supported in creating their own movements—disrupting the narrative, developing their own ideas—on their own terms. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Lyn Mikel Brown
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0807094609
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Powered by Girl written by Lyn Mikel Brown and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A playbook for working with and training girls to be activists of their own social movements Drawing from a diverse collection of interviews with women and girl activists, Powered by Girl is both a journalistic exploration of how girls have embraced activism and a guide for adults who want to support their organizing. Here we learn about the intergenerational support behind thirteen-year-old Julia Bluhm when she got Seventeen to go Photoshop free; nineteen-year-old Celeste Montaño, who pressed Google to diversify their Doodles; and sixteen-year-old Yas Necati, who campaigns for better sex education. And we learn what experienced adult activists say about how to scaffold girls’ social-change work. Brown argues that adults shouldn’t encourage girls to “lean in.” Rather, girls should be supported in creating their own movements—disrupting the narrative, developing their own ideas—on their own terms.

Author : Marisa Meltzer
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429933283
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girl Power written by Marisa Meltzer and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early nineties, riot grrrl exploded onto the underground music scene, inspiring girls to pick up an instrument, create fanzines, and become politically active. Rejecting both traditional gender roles and their parents' brand of feminism, riot grrrls celebrated and deconstructed femininity. The media went into a titillated frenzy covering followers who wrote "slut" on their bodies, wore frilly dresses with combat boots, and talked openly about sexual politics. The movement's message of "revolution girl-style now" soon filtered into the mainstream as "girl power," popularized by the Spice Girls and transformed into merchandising gold as shrunken T-shirts, lip glosses, and posable dolls. Though many criticized girl power as at best frivolous and at worst soulless and hypersexualized, Marisa Meltzer argues that it paved the way for today's generation of confident girls who are playing instruments and joining bands in record numbers. Girl Power examines the role of women in rock since the riot grrrl revolution, weaving Meltzer's personal anecdotes with interviews with key players such as Tobi Vail from Bikini Kill and Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls. Chronicling the legacy of artists such as Bratmobile, Sleater-Kinney, Alanis Morissette, Britney Spears, and, yes, the Spice Girls, Girl Power points the way for the future of women in rock.

Author : Karen Lound
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780822526926
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girl Power in the Family written by Karen Lound and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 1999-09-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the relationships between girls and their families, the gender issues that affect these relationships, and ways girls can develop their own identities.

Author : Dawn Currie
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820488776
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'Girl Power' written by Dawn Currie and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Girl Power': Girls Reinventing Girlhood examines the identity practices of girls who have grown up in the context of 'girl power' culture. The book asks whether - and which - girls have benefited from this feminist-inspired movement. Can girls truly become anything they want, as suggested by those who claim that the traditional mandate of femininity - compliance to male interests - is a thing of the past? To address such questions, the authors distinguish between 'girlhood' as a cultural ideal, and girls as the embodied agents through which girlhood becomes a social accomplishment. The book identifies significant issues for parents and teachers of girls, and offers suggestions for 'critical social literacy' as a classroom practice that recognizes the ways popular culture mediates young people's understanding of gender. 'Girl Power' will be of interest to researchers of contemporary gender identities, as well as educational professionals and adult girl advocates. It is relevant for students in gender studies and teacher-education courses, as well as graduate student researchers.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girl Power! written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helps adults teach girls that self esteem will help them make the most of their lives ; provides adults with materials that encourage girls to realize their full potential through avoidance of drugs, tobacco and alcohol.

Author : Hillary Carlip
Publisher : Grand Central Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780446670210
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girl Power written by Hillary Carlip and published by Grand Central Pub. This book was released on 1995 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents autobiographical writings by teenage girls from various ethnic and social groups throughout the country, including both urban and rural girls and members of subcultures from rappers to beauty contestants

Author : Helen Cordes
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 0822506092
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girl Power in the Mirror written by Helen Cordes and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackles the questions girls have about their bodies and their looks. Author Helen Cordes asked dozens of girls around the country how they feel about themselves. She shares their revelations and a few of her own, providing new insight into what girls see in the mirror, and ultimately, within themselves.

Author : Hillary Carlip
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446567531
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girl Power written by Hillary Carlip and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-31 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this searing feminist compilation, Carlip illuminates the worries, hopes, dreams and experiences of girls ages 13 to 19, through their stories, poems, letters, and notes. In this pages of this book, Hillary Carlip -- an American author and visual artist, whose work has been featured alongside Andy Warhol and Damien Hirst -- spotlights the inner workings of the teenage mind, as expressed through personal writings. The girls' voices come from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives -- cowgals, lesbians, teen mothers, sorority sisters and girls in gangs -- and reveal the depth, vulnerability, wisdom, and power of the writers.

Author : Andy Steiner
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780822526902
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Girl Power on the Playing Field written by Andy Steiner and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses how participation in sports can have a positive affect on a girl's spirit as well as her body.