Our Stories, Our Voices
21 YA Authors Get Real About Injustice, Empowerment, and Growing Up Female in America
New York : Simon Pulse, 2018.
Format: Book
Edition: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Description: xii, 288 pages ; 22 cm
In this collection of essays, young adult authors explore their experiences of injustice, empowerment, and growing up female in America. They explore themes on the intersection of race and gender; women and weight; first sexual experience; the devastation of rape culture; and much more. -- adapted from jacket
Contents:
My immigrant American dream / Sandhya Menon -- Her hair was not of gold / Anna-Marie McLemore -- Finding my feminism / Amy Reed -- Unexpected pursuits: embracing my indigeneity & creativity / Christine Day -- Chilled monkey brains / Sona Charaipotra -- Roar / Jaye Robin Brown -- Easter offering / Brandy Colbert -- Trumps and trunchbulls / Alexandra Duncan -- Tiny battles / Maurene Goo -- These words are mine / Stephanie Kuehnert -- Fat and loud / Julie Murphy -- Myth making: in the wake of hardship / Somaiya Daud -- Changing constellations / Nina LaCour -- The one who defines me / Aisha Saeed -- In our genes / Hannah Moskowitz -- An accidental activist / Ellen Hopkins -- Dreams deferred and other explosions / Ilene (I.W.) Gregorio -- Not like the other girls / Martha Brockenbrough -- Is something bothering you? / Jenny Torres Sanchez -- What I've learned about silence / Amber Smith -- Black girl, becoming / Tracy Deonn Walker.
Subjects:
Young women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Equality -- United States.
Feminism -- United States.
Young women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Equality -- United States.
Feminism -- United States.
ISBN:
9781534408999
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T SOCIAL SCI Our | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Teen Nonfiction | In |
T SOCIAL SCI Our | Northeast Indoors | Teen Nonfiction | Out (Due: 4/22/2024) |