Adios, Barbie: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity
10 best books like Adios, Barbie: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity (Ophira Edut): Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled, In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution, Arab & Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, & Belonging, A Mess of Everything, Fat! So?: Because You Don't Have to Apologize for Your Size, College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now, Worlds of Wonder: How to Write Science Fiction & Fantasy, Hey, Shorty!: A Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment and Violence in Schools and on the Streets, Unbending Gender, White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture
Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled
| Author | Nancy Mairs |
| ISBN | 0807070874 |
Everyone: read this book. It takes an ice-pick to the trope of 'pitiful cripple' that many of us carry about.
Mairs is a brilliant essayist and memoirist, writing about her own experiences as a woman with MS, who has lost movement in two legs and one arm and lives in the Southwest. She weaves larger...
| Author | Susan Brownmiller |
| ISBN | 0385314868 |
Male-only admissions policies. Back-alley abortions. The pervasive belief that rape was a woman's fault. These were the shocking conditions that stirred students, mothers, businesswomen, and grandmothers to activism in the latter half of the twentieth century. In this stirring memoir, Susan...
Arab & Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, & Belonging
| Author | Rabab Abdulhadi |
| ISBN | 0815632231 |
In this collection, Arab and Arab American feminists enlist their intimate experiences to challenge simplistic and long-held assumptions about gender, sexuality, and commitments to feminism and justice-centered struggles. Contributors hail from multiple geographical sites, spiritualities,...
| Author | Miss Lasko-Gross |
| ISBN | 1560979569 |
A book that starts out: "This town blows...No actually I blow. This is probably one of the best places to live in the history of human kind...I hate it here."
Yep. Melissa is back and she's tired of being a bored and lonely suburban misfit but doesn't really know how to be anything else.
I...
| Author | Marilyn Wann |
| ISBN | 0898159954 |
Fat? Chunky? Less than svelte? So what! In this hilarious and eye-opening book, fat and proud activist/zinester Marilyn Wann takes on Americas' biggest fear—worse than the fear of public speaking or nuclear weapons—our fear of fat.Statistics tell us that about a third of Americans are fat, and...
| Author | Lynn Peril |
| ISBN | 0393327159 |
A geek who wears glasses? Or a sex kitten in a teddy? This is the dual vision of the college girl, the unique American archetype born when the age-old conflict over educating women was finally laid to rest. College was a place where women found self-esteem, and yet images in popular culture reflected a...
| Author | David Gerrold |
| ISBN | 1582970076 |
This is a really useful and enjoyable little book. Not perfect, but I find books on writing to be much of a muchness. Depending on where you are on the curve, there will be a lot that you've read before, and usually a few really thought provoking new ideas, but in the end, as Gerrold says here, these books are...
Hey, Shorty!: A Guide to Combating Sexual Harassment and Violence in Schools and on the Streets
| Author | Joanne Smith |
| ISBN | 1558616691 |
At every stage of education, sexual harassment is common, and often considered a rite of passage for young people. It’s not unusual for a girl to hear “Hey, Shorty!” on a daily basis, as she walks down the hall or comes into the school yard, followed by a sexual innuendo, insult, come-on, or assault....
| Author | Joan C. Williams |
| ISBN | 0195147146 |
In Unbending Gender, Joan Williams takes a hard look at the state of feminism in America. Concerned by what she finds--young women who flatly refuse to identify themselves as feminists and working-class and minority women who feel the movement hasn't addressed the issues that dominate their daily...
White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture
| Author | Chrys Ingraham |
| ISBN | 0415918405 |
Five stars for concept, four for research, two for execution. This is a first-of-its-kind critique of the wedding-industrial complex from the perspective of feminist sociology. Ingraham methodically examines the way the image of the "white wedding" is used as a gateway for power and privilege in...
| Author | Julie Bettie |
| ISBN | 0520235428 |
In this examination of white and Mexican-American girls coming of age in California's Central Valley, Julie Bettie turns class theory on its head and offers new tools for understanding the ways in which class identity is constructed and, at times, fails to be constructed in relationship to color,...
| Author | Jane Margolis |
| ISBN | 0262632691 |
Understanding and overcoming the gender gap in computer science education.
The information technology revolution is transforming almost every aspect of society, but girls and women are largely out of the loop. Although women surf the Web in equal numbers to men and make a majority of online...
Barbie as the Island Princess
| Author | Mary Man-Kong |
| ISBN | 0375842179 |
IN THIS ALL-NEW musical adventure, Barbie¨ is a princess shipwrecked on a secluded island, where she is raised by an adorable red panda, a curious elephant, and a beautiful peacock. But when a handsome prince rescues her and brings her back to civilization, Barbie¨ isn't sure she fits in - especially...
Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature
| Author | Rosemarie Garland-Thomson |
| ISBN | 0231105177 |
As the first major critical study to examine literary and cultural representations of physical disability, Extraordinary Bodies situates disability as a social construction, shifting it from a property of bodies to a product of cultural rules about what bodies should be or do. Rosemarie Garland...
| Author | Diane Wright Landolf |
| ISBN | 0375956905 |
This is an easy reader based on the movie. Since it's written in easy reader style in short, simple sentences leaves a bit out. Words are simple, hardest words are the names. Pages are about 1-3 sentences long, 3-8 word sentences on average. Each page has a picture, a cartoon from the movie. Pictures are...
The Disability Studies Reader
| Author | Lennard J. Davis |
| ISBN | 0415953340 |
The Disability Studies Reader collects, for the first time, representative texts from the newly emerging field of disability studies. This volume represents a major advance in presenting the most important writings about disability with an emphasis on those writers working from a materialist...
| Author | Diana Souhami |
| ISBN | 0312343248 |
The writer Natalie Barney and the artist Romaine Brooks were rich, American, eccentric, and grandly lesbian. They met in Paris in 1915, and their relationship lasted more than fifty years despite infidelity, separation, and temperamental differences.
Told by Diana Souhami, the critically...
| Author | Howard Zinn |
| ISBN | 1583227601 |
A Young People's History of the United States brings to US history the viewpoints of workers, slaves, immigrants, women, Native Americans, and others whose stories, and their impact, are rarely included in books for young people. A Young People's History of the United States is also a companion volume...
| Author | Kathleen Gerson |
| ISBN | 0195371674 |
In the controversial public debate over modern American families, the vast changes in family life--the rise of single, two-paycheck, and same-sex parents--have often been blamed for declining morality and unhappy children. Drawing upon pioneering research with the children of the gender revolution,...
| Author | Linda Stout |
| ISBN | 0807043095 |
Again and again social change movements--on matter s from the environment to women's rights--have been run by middle-class leaders. But in order to make real progress toward economic and social change, poor people--those most affected by social problems--must be the ones to speak up and lead.
It...
Does Anybody Else Look Like Me?: A Parent's Guide To Raising Multiracial Children
| Author | Donna Jackson Nakazawa |
| ISBN | 0738206059 |
"Am I black or white or am I American?" "Why don't my eyes look like yours?" "Why do people always call attention to my 'different' hair?" Helping a child understand his mixed racial background can be daunting, especially when, whether out of honest appreciation or mean-spiritedness, peers and strangers...
Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality
| Author | Margot Weiss |
| ISBN | 0822351455 |
Techniques of Pleasure is an ethnography of the San Francisco Bay Area’s pansexual BDSM scene, a community of practitioners of bondage, domination/submission, role-playing, fetishes, and other forms of eroticism.
Margot Weiss’s research entailed attending dungeon play parties,...
Here Comes the Bride: Women, Weddings, and the Marriage Mystique
| Author | Jaclyn Geller |
| ISBN | 1568581939 |
In Here Comes the Bride, Jaclyn Geller exposes the social forces that shape how people feel about weddings, calling into question some of the deepest-held beliefs about this tradition. Divided into three sections, the book begins with how-to-get-your-man manuals and ends with the newlywed year....
The Politics of Women's Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior
| Author | Rose Weitz |
| ISBN | 0195149777 |
For nearly three decades, feminist scholars have examined how the female body and ideas about the female body affect women's lives. The Politics of Women's Bodies: Sexuality, Appearance, and Behavior, 2/e, brings together recent critical writings in this important field, covering such diverse...
