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Gibson Girls and Suffragists
by Catherine
Gourley
Written for girls 10 and up, the first volume of a series explores how
popular cultur has portrayed women in the early 20th century; from
Gibson girls to Flappers and Factory girls. (Hardcover, 144 pages, ages
10+)
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Women Know Everything!: 3,241 Quips, Quotes & Brilliant Remarks
by Karen Weekes
Paperback
3,241 quips, quotes & brilliant remarks. Featuring Oprah Winfrey, Cher,
Judi Dench, Margaret Cho, Mother Jones, k.d lang, Madonna and many more.
(Paperback, 480 pages)
Perfect Girls,
Starving Daughters: The Frightening New Normalcy of Hating Your Body
by Courtney L.
Martin
In
Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters, Martin offers original
research from the front lines of the eating disorders battlefield.
Drawn from more than a hundred interviews with sufferers,
psychologists, nutritionists, socio-cultural experts, and others, her
exposé reveals a new generation of "perfect girls" who are
obsessive-compulsive, overachieving, and self-sacrificing in multiple
-- and often dangerous -- new ways. Young women are "told over and
over again," Martin notes, "that we can be anything. But in those
affirmations, assurances, and assertions was a concealed pressure, an
unintended message: You are special. You are worth something. But you
need to be perfect to live up to that specialness."
With its vivid
and often heartbreaking personal stories, Perfect Girls, Starving
Daughters has the power both to shock and to educate. It is a true
call to action and cannot be missed.
$15.00
The Alice Paul Institute's Girls Share Their Voice Report
by
Dana Dabek-Milstein, Director of Leadership Programs
The Girls Share
Their Voice Report
is a comprehensive study of the current
needs of girls in the Delaware Valley and how the Alice Paul Institute’s
programs have addressed those needs over the past ten years.
The study
was conducted through a combination of program evaluations, local focus
groups, and a thorough overview of seminal research on girls. It offers
practical advice grounded in scholarly research for strengthening girls
programming throughout the region.
This 44-page report details what API has
learned from focus groups with past participants in the Alice Paul
Leadership Program and API's goals for future programs.
Sisterhood Interrupted: From Radical Women to Girls Gone Wild by Deborah Siegel
Contrary to
clichés about the end of feminism, Deborah Siegel argues that
younger women are reliving the battles of its past, and
reinventing it--with a vengeance. From feminist blogging to the
popularity of the WNBA, girl culture is on the rise. A lively and
compelling look back at the framing of one of the most contentious
social movements of our time, Sisterhood, Interrupted
exposes the key issues still at stake, outlining how a
twenty-first century feminist can reconcile the personal with the
political and combat long-standing inequalities that continue
today.
$14.95
The 51% Minority: How Women (Still) are Not Equal and What You Can
Do About It
by Lis Wiehl
Women make up 51%
of the American population, yet still aren't treated equally to men
in areas that matter most. In this provocative new book, Lis Wiehl,
one of the country's top federal prosecutors, reveals the legal and
social inequalities women must face in their daily lives — and
provides a "Tool Box" for dealing with a variety of issues.
$24.95
Winning the Vote: The Triumph
of the American Woman Suffrage Movement by Robert P.J. Cooney Jr.
Cooney's beautiful photographic
history, 12 years in the making features many photos and illustrations never
seen before. (Hardcover, Oversized, 478 pages)
$85.00
Women Who Dare:
Women of the Suffrage Movement by Janice E. Ruth and Evelyn Sinclair
This new book tells the story of the
women who dared to make a difference and the themes that shaped the women's
suffrage movement.
(Hardcover, 6.5 x 5.75")
$12.95
Copyright 1985, Alice Paul
Institute, Inc.
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