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The roster of female role models in Cool Women is extremely eclectic, spanning
history and national boundaries to include Cleopatra and Amelia Earhart. Mexican freedom
fighters stand side by side with Soviet WWII fighter pilots, Mother Jones, and...Read more
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Both a gathering and a celebration, Nike brings together some of the best women
writers on sports to chronicle, sport by sport, the struggles and the politics that
permeate the arena, and the achievements of the achievers who've broken through to...Read more
Young
Adult Editor's Recommended Book
Movie stars, rock stars, pond nymphs, intergalactic superheroes . . . who are the real
goddesses in Francesca Lia Block's world? Real young women--the kind who ache, bleed,
dance, and talk to blue ghosts in closets. Famous for her lyric Weetzie
Bat...Read more
Black
Studies Editor's Recommended Book
Conducting interviews for Sugar in the Raw, Rebecca Carroll traveled to 12 cities
across the country, and talked to more than 50 girls. From that number, she selected 15
who tell their stories in their own words in this stereotype-breaking book....Read more
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"Sometimes our inside-the-head world gets so crammed with what other people think
that what we think gets squished out our ears or something." So laments the young
protagonist Molly-Be-Gone in C. Drew Lamm's "Stay True," the title story in
this...Read more
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Vibrant, combative and broad-ranging, the new voices in Listen Up are the best
proof yet that the next wave of rising feminists is magnificently equal to its task of
creating a movement that should be, in terms of its ideas, always renewed. -- Naomi...Read more
Personal
Growth Editor's Recommended Book
Kaz Cooke knew women needed a book that cut through the confusing and cruel messages about
body image, beauty, eating disorders, diets, and cosmetic surgery. "Mostly, we needed
a book that wasn't trying to sell us anything except self-confidence...Read more
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"I wonder if everyone feels the way I do. I wonder if every girl at the age of 17
feels dumb and alone." Sam, a zine writer and Riot Grrrl from San Diego, voices a
lament echoed by many of the young women who speak their minds and souls in Girl Power...Read more
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Did you know that Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had an older sister who was another musical
genius? Musicologists even speculate that some compositions attributed to Mozart were
actually the work of his sister. Nannerl Mozart is just one example of how...Read more
Women's
Studies Editor's Recommended Book
Nowadays teenage girls--at least those depicted in books--seem to wade through rivers of
pain to reach womanhood. Time and again we hear of girls tempering their voices and
leaving behind skills and interests like cast-off baggage. And small wonder,...Read more
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The first American woman to fly a plane ignored the orders of her flight instructor and
unblocked the throttle he had rigged to prevent her takeoff. She lifted above where he
stood on the tarmac for a few moments before returning, triumphant, to the...Read more
Grrrl Power 
