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Related reading for teens:
Greenfield, Lauren. Girl Culture. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2002. [including “Introduction” by Joan Jacobs Brumberg].
Weiss, Stefanie Iris. Coping with the Beauty Myth, a Guide for Real Girls. 155.533 WEISS
Asugha, Ruby. Little Sisters, Listen Up! A Message of Hope for Girls Growing Up in Poverty, Racism, and Despair. 158.1084 ASUGH
McPhee, Jenny, Laura McPhee, and Martha McPhee. Girls: Ordinary Girls and Their Extraordinary Pursuits. 305.23 ODD
Mosatche, Harriet S. & Elizabeth K. Lawne. Getting to Know the Real You: 50 Fun Quizzes Just for Girls. 305.23 MOSAT
Simmons, Rachel. Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write About Bullies, Cliques, Popularity, and Jealousy. 305.23 ODD
Kirberger, Kimberly. No body’s perfect: Stories by teens about body image, self-acceptance, and the search for identity. 305.235 KIRBE
Rutledge, Jill Zimmerman. Dealing with the Stuff That Makes Life Tough: the Ten Things That Stress Girls Out and How to Cope with Them. 305.235 RUTLE
Shandler, Sara. Ophelia Speaks: Adolescent Girls Write About Their Search for Self. New York: Harper Perennial, 1999. 305.235 SHAND
Girl Source, a Book by and for Young Women About Relationships, Rights, Futures, Bodies, Minds and Souls. 305.2352 GIRLS
Gottlieb, Lori. Stick Figure: a Diary of My Former Self. Berkeley: Berkeley
Pubishing Group, 2001. 616.8526 GOTTL
Edut, Ophira (ed.), Rebecca Walker. Body Outlaws: Young Women Write About Body Image and Identity. Seattle: Seal Press, 2000.
Fiction:
Flake, Sharon. The Skin I’m In
Perez, Marlene. Unexpected Development
Friend, Natasha. Perfect
Mackler, Carolyn. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big, Round Things
Tokio, Marnell. More Than You Can Chew
Whytock, Cherry. My Cup Runneth Over: The Life of Angelica Cookson Potts
Cummings, Priscilla. A Face First
Dessen, Sarah. Keeping The Moon
McCormick, Patricia. Cut
Windle, Jeanette. Jana’s Journal
Books for parents & professionals:
Simmons, Rachel. Odd Girl Out: the Hidden Culture of Aggression in American Girls. New York, London, San Diego: Harcourt Inc., 2002.
302.54 SIMMO.
Perlstein, Linda. Not Much Just Chillin’: the Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers. 305.234 PERLS
Brown, Lyn Mikel. Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection Among Girls.
305.235 BROWN
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. New York: Random House, 1997. 305.235 BRUMB
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. Fasting Girls: The History of Anorexia Nervosa.
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1988.
Orenstein, Peggy. Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap. 305.235 O
Pipher, Mary. Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. New York: Ballantine Books, 2001. 305.235 P
Wolf, Naomi. The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women. New York: Doubleday, 1992. 305.42 WOLF
Fuller, Doris A. and Natalie Fuller with Greg Fuller. Promise You Won’t Freak Out: a Teenager Tells Her Mother the Truth About Boys, Booze, Body Piercing and Other Touchy Topics (and Mom Responds). 306.874 FULLE
Pierson, Stephanie and Phyllis Cohen. You Have to Say I’m Pretty. You’re My Mother: How to Help Your Daughter Learn to Lover Her Body and Herself. 306.8743 PIERS
Beck, Carol. Nourishing Your Daughter: Help Your Child Develop a Healthy Relationship with Food and Her Body. 616.8526 BECK
Lock, James and Daniel Le Grange. Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder. 616.8526 LOCK
Rimm, Sylvia B. Rescuing The Emotional Lives Of Overweight Children: What Our Kids Go Through—And How We Can Help. 618.9239 RIMM
Dellasega, Cheryl. The Starving Family: Caregiving Mothers and Fathers Share Their Eating Disorder Wisdom
Wiseman, Rosalind. Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence. Crown Publishing, 2002. 649.125 WIESM
Deak, JoAnn. Girls will be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters. 649.133 DEAK
Margo Maine. Body Wars: An Activist's Guide. Carlsbad, California: Gurze Books, 2000.
Gilligan, Carol and Lyn Mikel Brown. Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's
Psychology and Girl's Development. New York: Ballantine Books, 1993.
White, Emily. Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut. New York:
Scribner, 2002.
Zimmerman, Jean and Gil Reavill. Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters. 796.082 ZIMME
For more related reading, go to www.evpl.org.
Courtesy of Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library
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