Week of March 5, 2012
Girl Scouts
In the News: The Girl Scouts of the USA celebrate their 100th anniversary this year. Here are books on the organization as well as titles on girlhood and “girl power!”
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After the Girls Club: How Teenaged Holocaust Survivors Built New Lives in America
By Carole Bell Ford. Lexington Books, 2010
Call Number: F128.9 .J5 F63 2010
African American Girls: Reframing Perceptions and Changing Experiences
By Faye Z. Belgrave. Springer, 2009
Call Number: E185.86 .B3779 2009
Feminism, Inc.: Coming of Age in Girl Power Media Culture
By Emilie Zaslow. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Call Number: HQ798 .Z37 2009
Fighting for Girls: New Perspectives on Gender and Violence
Edited by Meda Chesney-Lind Nikki Jones. SUNY Press, 2010
Call Number: HV9104 .F54 2010
Girlhood: A Global History
Edited by Jennifer Helgren and Colleen A. Vasconcellos. Rutgers UP, 2010
Call Number: HQ798 .G5255 2010
‘Girl Power’: Girls Reinventing Girlhood
By Dawn H. Currie, Deirdre M. Kelly and Shauna Pomerantz. Peter Lang, 2009
Call Number: HQ798 .C87 2009
Girl Wide Web 2.0: Revisiting Girls, the Internet, and the Negotiation of Identity
Edited by Sharon R. Mazzarella. Peter Lang, 2010
Call Number: HQ798 .G5253 2010
Girls Are Great: Growing Up Female
By Harriet S. Mostache, Verna L. Simpkins, and Sharon Woods Hussey. Girl Scouts of the U.S. A., 1987
Call Number: HQ777 .M67 1987
The Girls’ History and Culture Reader: The Twentieth Century
Edited by Miriam Forman-Brunell and Leslie Paris. University of Illinois Press, 2011
Call Number: HQ777 .G5763 2011
Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not For Sale, an Activist Finds Her Calling and Heals Herself
By Rachel Lloyd. HarperCollins, 2011
Call Number: HQ281 .L57 2011
I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls around the World
By Eve Ensler. Villard, 2010
Call Number: HQ777 .E57 2010
Leading Girls to Mathematics, Science and Technology: Into the World of Today and Tomorrow
By Sharon Woods Hussey. Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., 1987
Call Number: Q130 .H87 1987
Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls’ Media Culture
Edited by Mary Celeste Kearney. Peter Lang, 2011
Call Number: P94.5 .G57 M43 2011
Mitzvah Girls: Bringing Up the Next Generation of Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn
By Ayala Fader. Princeton University Press, 2009
Call Number: BM727 .F33 2009
Multicultural Girlhood: Racism, Sexuality, and the Conflicted Spaces of American Education
By Mary E. Thomas. Temple University Press, 2011
Call Number: HQ798 .T46 2011
Rebel Girls: Youth Activism and Social Change Across the Americas
By Jessica K. Taft. New York University Press, 2011
Call Number: HQ799.2 .P6 T35 2011
Scouting for Girls: A Century of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
By Tammy M. Proctor. Praeger, 2009
Call Number: HS3353 .G35 P76 2009
Sociology, Gender and Educational Aspirations: Girls and Their Ambitions
By Carol Fuller. Continuum International Pub. Group, 2009
Call Number: LC1707 .F85 2009
Swimming against the Tide: African American Girls and Sciences Education
By Sandra L .Hanson. Temple University Press, 2009
Call Number: Q183.3 .A1 H367 2009 (Also available online via EBSCOhost)
Talking Young Femininities
By Pia Pichler. Arts & Humanities Research Council, 2009
Call Number: HQ798 .P53 2009
Teaching the Female Brain: How Girls Learn Math and Science
By Abigail Norfleet James. Corwin, 2009
Call Number: QA11.2 .J36 2009 (At Treasure Coast)
Understanding Teenage Girl: Culture, Identity, and Schooling
By Horace R. Hall and Andrea Brown-Thirston. Rowman & Littlefield, 2011
Call Number: HQ798 .H324 2011
Why Girls Fight: Female Youth Violence in the Inner City
By Cindy D. Ness. New York University Press, 2010
Call Number: HV6791 .N38 2010