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Title: Schoolgirls : Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap by Peggy Orenstein ISBN: 0-385-42576-7 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (29 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Not Just 4 Teachers....but 4 Everyone!
Comment: Loved this book and I recommend it to everyone on the planet. I wish this author would do an up to date version of this book for 2003 to see what has changed and what still remains the same. I bet quite a few things still remain the same.
Rating: 4
Summary: Better than Reviving Ophelia
Comment: For a year, Peggy Orenstein followed middle school students from one white suburban and one impoverished minority community, documenting the gender, power and life struggles of seventh and eighth grade girls. The resulting work, SchoolGirls, draws from both academic and anecdotal sources and reads like a series of interwoven short stories with an unhidden agenda.
From the first example of biased classroom dynamics in which one male student engages in an attention-desperate power struggle with his female teacher to the teacher-imposed gender equality of a women in history class Orenstein demonstrates the extreme impact of teachers' attitudes and approaches. This is a thoughtful and thought provoking work that successfully avoids being preachy while offering hope and solutions, placing responsibility on every involved party. SchoolGirls' only glaring flaw is the overemphasis on the role of the teachers and the underemphasis and therefore ironic disempowerment of the girls to effect their own situations.
Rating: 5
Summary: teacher to be
Comment: Peggy's recent article in Discover magazine about women in
science and technology prompted me to re-read schoolgirls after
7 years. It is crucial reading for me as I am leaving the
technology sector to teach math, and I am raising 2 daughters.
I see so much of myself in both the article and this book, I'm
scared to read her most recent book "Flux...". Upon re-reading
"Schoolgirls", however, it seems clear to me that it is not teachers who are inflicting the gender stereotypes - kids learn
this at home and kids in turn teach it at school. If teachers can avoid being pulled in and reinforcing the behaviors, we are in a unique position to challenge them and break the patterns.
Parents and teachers alike must teach our daughters to respect
themselves, AND we must teach our sons to respect girls and
value their contributions.
I too would very much love to know what has happened to the
girls in this book.
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Title: Meeting at the Crossroads by Carol Gilligan, Lyn Mikel Brown ISBN: 0345382951 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 10 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: FAILING AT FAIRNESS: HOW AMERICA'S SCHOOLS CHEAT GIRLS by Myra Sadker, David Sadker ISBN: 068480073X Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Flux : Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed World by Peggy Orenstein ISBN: 038549887X Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 21 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Reviving Ophelia : Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls by Mary Pipher ISBN: 0345392825 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 14 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Making Connections: The Relational Worlds of Adolescent Girls at Emma Willard School by Carol Gilligan, Nona P. Lyons, Trudy J. Hanmer ISBN: 0674540417 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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