Raising Confident Girls

WRC Suggested Reading Lists:

Raising Confident Girls: A Selected Reading List


All About the Girl: Culture, Power and Identity
(Harris) 2004

Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationships (Taylor, Gilligan & Sullivan) c1995,1997

Boys and Girls: The Development Of Gender Roles (Beal) 1994

The Body Project: An Intimate History Of American Girls (Brumberg) 1997

Celebrating Girls: Nurturing and Empowering Our Daughters (Rutter) 1996

The Difference: Discovering the Hidden Ways We Silence Girls - Finding

Alternatives That Can Give Them a Voice (Mann) 1994

Every Girl Tells a Story: A Celebration Of Girls Speaking Their Minds (Jones) 2002

For All Our Girls: How Mentoring Helps Young Women and Girls Master the Art Of Growing (Echevarria) 1998

The Gay Teen: Educational Practice and Theory For Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Adolescents (Unks) 1995

The Girls Report: What We Need To Know About Growing Up Female (Phillips) 1998

Girls Seen and Heard: Fifty-Two Life Lessons For Our Girls (Forsyth) 1998

How Schools Shortchang Girls: The AAUW Report (AAUW Educ. Fd.) c1991, 1995

Meeting At the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development (Brown & Gilligan) 1992

No More Frogs To Kiss: 99 Ways To Give Economic Power to Girls (Godfrey) 1999

Promiscuities: The Secret Struggle For Womanhood (Wolf) 1997

Queer Kids: The Challenges and Promise For Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Youth (Owens) 1998

Raising Our Athletic Daughters: How Sports Can Raise Self-Esteem and Save Girls' Lives (Zimmerman & Reavill) 1998

Raising Their Voices: the Politics Of Girls' Anger (Brown) c1998, 1999

Real Girl, Real World: Tools For Finding Your True Self (Gray & Phillips) 1998

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves Of Adolescent Girls (Pipher) 1994

Running For Their Lives: Girls, Cultural Identity and Survival (Inness) 2000

Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap (Orenstein) 1994

See Jane Win: the Rimm Report On How 1,000 Girls Became Successful Women (Rimm) 1999

Sugar and Spice: Sexuality and Adolescent Girls (Lees) 1993