Reading & Resources for Supporters of Girls:
Aapola, Sinikka, et al. Young Femininity: Girlhood, Power and Social Change. Ed. Jo Campling. 1st ed. 18 Jan 2005.
Baumgardner, Jennifer and Amy Richards. Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 4 Oct 2000.
Brown, Lyn Mikel and Sharon Lamb. Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers’ Schemes. New York: St. Martin’s, 8 Aug 2006.
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. New York: Random House, Inc., 1 Sept 1998.
Cohen-Sandler, Roni. Stressed-out Girls : Helping Them Thrive in the Age of Pressure. New York: Penguin Group, 2005.
Deak, JoAnn and Teresa Barker. Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters. New York: Hyperion, 2002.
Harris, Anita. Future Girl: Young Women in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Routledge, 19 Dec 2003.
Harris, Anita. All About the Girl: Culture, Power, and Identity. New York: Routledge, 17 Sept 2004.
Hartley-Brewer, Elizabeth. Raising Confident Girls: 100 Tips for Parents and Teachers. 15 May 2001.
Jacob, Iris, ed. My Sisters'Voices: Teenage Girls of Color Speak Out. New York: Henry Holt and Company, LLC, 3 Apr 2002.
Leadbeater, Bonnie J. and Niobe Way, eds. Urban Girls: Resisting Stereotypes, Creating Identities. 1 Jun 1996.
Morgan, Joan. When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost : My Life as A Hip Hop Feminist. 10 Mar 1999.
Nam, Vickie. YELL-Oh Girls! Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian American. New York: HaperCollins Publishers, 1 Aug 2001.
Pipher, Dr. Mary. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. 1 Aug 2005.
Prothrow-Stith, Deborah and Howard R. Spivak. Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls'Violence. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 4 Aug 2006.
Rimm, Dr. Sylvia. See Jane Win: The Rimm Report on How 1,000 Girls Became Successful Women. Philadelphia: Running Press Book Publishers, Aug 2001.
Shalit, Wendy. A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue. 24 Jan 2000.
Simmons, Rachel. Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls. San Diego: Harcourt Trade Publishing, 1 Apr 2003.
Stevens, Joyce West. Smart and Sassy: The Strengths of Inner-City Black Girls. New York: Oxford University Press, 18 Feb 2002.
Wiserman, Rosalind. Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence. New York: Crown Publishers, 30 Apr 2002.
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