Respect
A Girl's Guide to Getting Respect & Dealing
When Your Line Is Crossed

Macavinta and Vander Pluym

Makes the point that respect is connected to everything, that every girl deserves respect, and that respect is always within reach because it starts on the inside. Topics range from body image, family, friends, school, rumors, and relationships through to sexual harassment, date rape, sex, drugs and alcohol. Activities, writing exercises, sidebars, scenarios and quotes from teens make the information and ideas interesting and accessible. Ages 13 and up. Softcover, 7x9, 240 pp., 2005.

33 Things Every Girl Should Know About Women's History

Tanya Bolden, ed.

"Rain or shine I intend to spend Sunday with you that we may all together concoct a declaration", wrote Elizabeth Cady Stanton in 1848, confirming the tea party at which the Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention was planned. This book is an easily accessible introduction to the many women who "concocted" the changes that have been realized in the rights and roles of US women over the past 150 years. Using period photos, quotes, timelines and original essays, it covers topics as diverse as suffragettes, skirt lengths, labor herstory, the E.R.A. and Title IX. Entertaining, inspiring reading for girls (and boys) 10 and up. Softcover, 7x9, 240pp., 2002.

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Women Confronting Retirement

Nan Bauer-Maglin and Alice Radosh, eds.

The first generation of women who, in large numbers, primarily defined themselves through their careers is now being challenged by their own and others negative stereotypes about retirement. This book brings us the voices of thirty-eight women from a wide range of professions, ages, and life situations addressing such issues as identity, aging, creativity, family and community as they continue to question traditional models. Softcover, 6x9, 378pp., 2003.

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