Girl Positive: Supporting Girls to Shape a New World

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Synopsis
Showcasing diverse voices of girls and young women from North America, Tatiana Fraser and Caia Hagel shift the focus from the media's sensationalist stories to highlight real-life accounts of how girls are making positive change and shaping a new world. Girl Positive takes an engaging, cutting-edge view of the cultural, social and political issues facing girls today. Looking closely at topics from social media, sexual violence, hypersexuality and cyberspace identities to girls transforming the world as leaders and agents of change, Girl Positive offers stories of struggle and victory, and brings to light where today's girls are finding new paths to empowerment. Fraser and Hagel explorethese insights and challenges with depth, compassion and a sense of adventure. The authors travelled from Montreal to Toronto, New Haven, Whitehorse, Los Angeles, Vancouver, San Francisco, Detroit and the Wemindji Cree Nation in northern Quebec, to hang out in coffee shops, dance studios, classrooms, gyms, skate parks, beaches andbedrooms, and talk with school girls, college students and young women in their early careers. Interspersed with their narratives are advice and input from experts in media, health, race and gender politics, sexuality, education and leadership. Each chapter also includes a Survival Kit, which offers tips and discussion questions for girls and the adults in their lives. Through Fraser and Hagel's journey readers will learn how to better equip themselves to support girls (and boys)--as parents, friends, educators, mentors and activists. Girl Positive celebrates all girls, illuminates emerging culture and fresh politics, and shows usthe future in the making.From the Hardcover edition.
Copyright:
2016

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780345808417
Related ISBNs:
9780345808394
Publisher:
Random House of Canada
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Tatiana Fraser and Caia Hagel
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Parenting and Family, Social Studies
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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