Publications > Recommended Resources
Gender, Adolescence, Race and Schooling
The Blueprint for My Girls: How to Build a Life Full of Courage, Determination and Self-Love by Yasmin Shiraz, Fireside, 2004.
Bullying from Both Sides: Strategic Interventions for Working with Bullies & Victims by Walter B. Roberts Jr., Corwin Press, 2005.
Failing at Fairness: How America’s Schools Cheat Girls by Myra Sadker and David Sadker, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1994.
Gender Gaps: Where Schools Still Fail Our Children by American Association of University Women Educational Foundation, 1999.
Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School by Barrie Thorne, Rutgers University Press, 1993.
Healing the Hate: A National Bias Crime Prevention Curriculum for Middle Schools by Karen A. McLaughlin and Kelly J. Brilliant, Education Development Center, Inc., 1997.
Hostile Hallways: The AAUW Survey on Sexual Harassment in America’s Schools by American Association of University Women Educational Foundation, 1993.
How Schools Shortchange Girls: The AAUW Report by American Association of University Women Educational Foundation, 1992.
Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy Superheroes and Make-Believe Violence by Gerald Jones, Basic Books, 2002.
Meeting at the Crossroads: Women’s Psychology and Girls’ Development by Lyn Mikel Brown and Carol Gilligan, Harvard University Press, 1998.
The Primal Teen: What the New Discoveries About the Teenage Brain Tells Us About Our Kids by Barbara Strauch, N.P. Doubleday, 2003.
Raising Their Voices: The Politics of Girls’ Anger by Lyn Mikel Brown, Harvard University Press, 1998.
School Girls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap by Peggy Orenstein, Doubleday, 1994.
The Secret Lives of Girls: What Good Girls Really Do by Sharon Lamb, N.P. Free Press, 2002.
A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence by Patricia Hersch, Ballantine Books, 1999.
Voices of a Generation: Teenage Girls on Sex, School, and Self by American Association of University Women Educational Foundation, 1999.
All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks, William Morrow, 2000.
Between Voice and Silence: Women and Girls, Race and Relationship by Jill McLean Taylor, Carol Gilligan, and Amy Sullivan, Harvard University Press, 1995.
Everyday Courage: The Lives and Stories of Urban Teenagers by Niobe Way, New York University Press, 1998.
The Gendered Society Reader by Michael S. Kimmel and Amy Aronson, Oxford University Press, 2000.
The Status of Black Adolescent Females in the District of Columbia by Patricia Harper, Gladys B. Baxley, and Linda Y. Fisher, DC Community Crime Prevention Partnership Inc., 1999.
Urban Girls: Resisting Stereotypes, Creating Identities by Bonnie J. Leadbeater and Niobe Way, New York University Press, 1995.