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Candlewick Press
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IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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From the expert team behind IT'S PERFECTLY NORMAL and IT'S SO AMAZING! comes a book for younger children about their bodies - a resource that parents, teachers, librarians, health care providers, and clergy can use with ease and confidence. Young children are curious about almost everything, especially their bodies. And young children are not afraid to ask questions. What makes me a girl? What makes me a boy? Why are some parts of girls' and boys'...
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"In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She wrote about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, airing some of her own hilariously awful encounters. She ends on a serious note-- because the ultimate problem is the silencing of women who have something...
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From the author of New York Times bestseller You're Wearing That? this bestselling classic work draws upon groundbreaking research by an acclaimed sociolinguist to show that women and men live in different worlds, made of different words. Women and men live in different worlds...made of different words. Spending nearly four years on the New York Times bestseller list, including eight months at number one, You Just Don't Understand is a true cultural...
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"SCUM Manifesto was considered one of the most outrageous, violent, and certifiably crazy tracts when it first appeared in 1968. Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol, self-published this work just before her rampage against the king of Pop Art made her a household name and resulted in her confinement to a mental institution. But the Manifesto, for all its vitriol, is impossible to dismiss as just the rantings of a lesbian lunatic. In fact,...
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Day in, day out, women anticipate and manage the needs of others. At home, we shoulder the mental load required to keep our households running. At work, we moderate our tone, explaining patiently and speaking softly. No wonder women everywhere are overtaxed, exhausted, and simply fed up. Hartley gives voice to the frustration and anger of performing thankless emotional labor. She illuminates how this fuels gender inequality, limits our opportunities,...
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Simon Spotlight Entertainment
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English
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The Instant New York Times Bestseller He's Just Not That Into You -- based on the popular episode of Sex and the City -- educates otherwise smart women on how to tell when a guy just doesn't like them enough, so they can stop wasting time making excuses for a dead-end relationship. Reexamining familiar scenarios and classic mindsets that keep us in unsatisfying relationships, Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo's wise and wry understanding of the sexes...
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If you've ever questioned the logic of basing an entire identity around what you have between your legs, it's time to embark on a daring escape outside of the binary box... Open your eyes to what it means to be a boy or a girl -- and above and beyond! Within these pages, you get to choose which path to forge. Explore over one hundred different scenarios that embrace nearly every definition across the world, over history, and in the ever-widening realms...
14) White girls
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Publisher
McSweeneys Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
x, 308 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An anthology of historical short stories features a diverse array of girls standing up for themselves and their beliefs, forging their own paths while resisting society's expectations.
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Publisher
Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
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xi, 225 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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Outlines psychology-based strategies for focusing on a child's unique strengths rather than on gender expectations, counseling parents on how to avoid cultural inclinations that limit a child's potential.
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English
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Are you done with the mansplaining? Have you been interrupted one too many times? Dont stop talking. Take your voice back. Womens voices arent being heardat work, at home, in public, and in every facet of their lives. When they speak up, theyre seen as pushy, loud, and too much . When quiet, theyre dismissed as meek and mild. Everywhere they turn, theyre confronted by the assumptions of a male-dominated world. From the Supreme Court to the conference...
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