A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution
10 best books like A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World: Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution (Karen Green): It's Kind of a Funny Story, Cut, Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement, My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands, Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine, The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls, The Lottie Project, The Illustrated Mum
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life - which means getting into the right high school to get into the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping...
Author | Patricia McCormick |
ISBN | 0439324599 |
Callie cuts herself. Never too deep, never enough to die. But enough to feel the pain. Enough to feel the scream inside.
Now she's at Sea Pines, a "residential treatment facility" filled with girls struggling with problems of their own. Callie doesn't want to have anything to do with them. She...
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape
Author | Susan Brownmiller |
ISBN | 0449908208 |
"The most comprehensive study of rape ever offered to the public...It forces readers to take a fresh look at their own attitudes toward this devastating crime." -NEWSWEEK
As powerful and timely now as when it was first published, AGAINST OUR WILL stands as a unique document of the history of...
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution
Author | Adrienne Rich |
ISBN | 0393312844 |
Motherhood as Experience and Institution.
"In order for all women to have real choices all along the line," Adrienne Rich writes, "we need fully to understand the power and powerlessness embodied in motherhood in patriarchal culture." Rich's investigation, in this influential and landmark...
Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement
Author | Robin Morgan |
ISBN | 0394705394 |
Here is the first comprehensive collection of writings from the Women's Liberation Movement, including articles, poems, photo-graphs, and manifestos. This anthology captures the range of problems being considered by the new feminists, and the variety of approaches to analysis and action. Over...
My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
Author | Chelsea Handler |
ISBN | 1582346186 |
You've either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend's irritating wedding, or the only relief from a disastrous vacation. Often embarrassing and uncomfortable, occasionally outlandish, but most...
Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine
Author | Lisa Jervis |
ISBN | 0374113432 |
In the wake of Sassy and as an alternative to the more staid reporting of Ms. Magazine, Bitch was launched in the mid-nineties as a Xerox-and-staple zine covering the landscape of popular culture from a feminist perspective. Both unabashed in its love for the guilty pleasures of consumer culture and...
The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls
Author | Joan Jacobs Brumberg |
ISBN | 0679735291 |
"Timely and sympathetic . . . a work of impassioned advocacy." --People
A hundred years ago, women were lacing themselves into corsets and teaching their daughters to do the same. The ideal of the day, however, was inner beauty: a focus on good deeds and a pure heart. Today...
Author | Jacqueline Wilson |
ISBN | 1854599119 |
The Lottie Project is a story about Charlotte Enright (Charlie) set in late 20th century England. Charlie is the most popular girl in her school. She assumes she will find history lessons boring but she sees a Victorian photo of a girl who looked exactly like her and from then on she becomes interested...
Author | Jacqueline Wilson |
ISBN | 0440863686 |
Marigold loves her daughters a lot. But she loves herself far more. She sees them as children to be formed in her own egotistical image to reflect what she wants the world to think of her. She has one adoring child and one who is beginning to want her own life and not want to look after her mother anymore. Both...
Author | Jacqueline Wilson |
ISBN | 0552551317 |
Magda is tall and glamorous, Nadine is willowy and 'gothic' and Ellie, well, Ellie thinks she is unattractive and boring and that no boy will ever be interested in her. The three girls have been best friends 'forever' even though they don't seem to have much in common. But one thing they all want is a boyfriend!
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Listen Up: Voices From the Next Feminist Generation
Author | Barbara Findlen |
ISBN | 1878067613 |
this was one of the best, most inclusive feminist anthologies i’ve come across! i have been feeling kind of isolated lately, because i have been feeling like every feminist/pro-woman thing i say gets challenged, debated, mocked, etc, even when i’m not looking for a debate. reading this book basically...
Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism
Author | Alison Piepmeier |
ISBN | 0814767516 |
With names like The East Village Inky, Mend My Dress, Dear Stepdad, and I’m So Fucking Beautiful, zines created by girls and women over the past two decades make feminism’s third wave visible. These messy, photocopied do-it-yourself documents cover every imaginable subject matter and are loaded...