Author: Michael Sokolove
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416579621
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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Amy Steadman was destined to become one of the great women's soccer players of her generation. "The best of the best," Parade magazine called her as she left high school and headed off to the University of North Carolina. Instead, by age twenty, Amy had undergone five surgeries on her right knee. She had to give up the sport she loved. She walked with a stiff gait, like an elderly woman, and found it painful to get out of bed in the morning. Warrior Girls exposes the downside of the women's sports revolution that has evolved since Title IX: an injury epidemic that is easily ignored because we worry that it will threaten our daughters' hard-won opportunities on the field. From teenage girls playing local soccer, basketball, lacrosse, volleyball, and other sports to women competing at the elite level, female athletes are suffering serious injuries at alarming rates. The numbers are frightening and irrefutable. Young female athletes tear their ACLs, the stabilizing ligament in the knee, at rates as high as eight times greater than their male counterparts. Women's collegiate soccer players suffer concussions at the same rate as college football players. From head to toe, female athletes suffer higher rates of injury, and many of them play through constant pain. Michael Sokolove gives us the most up-to-date research on girls and sports injuries. He takes us into the homes and hearts of female athletes, into operating theaters where orthopedic surgeons reconstruct shredded knees, and onto the practice field of famed University of North Carolina soccer coach Anson Dorrance. Exhaustively researched and strongly argued, Warrior Girls is an urgent wake-up call for parents and coaches. Sokolove connects the culture of youth sports -- the demands for girls to specialize in a single sport by age ten or younger, and to play it year-round -- directly to the injury epidemic. Devoted to the ideal of team, and deeply bonded with teammates, these tough girls don't want to leave the field even when confronted with serious injury and chronic pain. Warrior Girls shows how girls can train better and smarter to decrease their risks. It makes clear that parents must come together and demand changes to a sports culture that manufactures injuries. Well-documented, opinionated, and controversial, Warrior Girls shows that all girls can safeguard themselves on the field without sacrificing their hard-won right to be there.

Author: Eileen Myles
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062394673
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161

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Available once again for a new generation of readers, the groundbreaking and candid coming-of-age novel in-real-time from one of America's most celebrated poets that is considered a cult classic. In this breathtakingly inventive autobiographical novel, Eileen Myles transforms life into a work of art. Told in her audacious voice, made vivid and immediate in her lyrical language, Chelsea Girls cobbles together memories of Myles’ 1960s Catholic upbringing with an alcoholic father, her volatile adolescence, her unabashed “lesbianity,” and her riotous pursuit of survival as a poet in 1970s New York. Suffused with alcohol, drugs, and sex; evocative in its depictions of the hardscrabble realities of a young artist’s life; and poignant with stories of love, humor, and discovery, Chelsea Girls is a funny, cool, and intimate account of a writer’s education, and a modern chronicle of how a young female writer shrugged off the chains of a rigid cultural identity meant to define her.

Author: Rachel Sarah
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
ISBN: 1641603747
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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"It gives me true hope to read about the phenomenal young women of Girl Warriors. Their fierce commitment to the future of our precious planet is as inspiring as it is vital." —Kate Schatz, New York Times bestselling author of Rad American Women A-Z and Rad Women Worldwide 2021 Skipping Stones Honors Book in Nature and Ecology Girl Warriors: How 25 Young Activists Are Saving the Earth& tells the stories of 25 climate leaders under age 25.& They've led hundreds of thousands of people in climate strikes, founded non-profits, given TED talks, and sued their governments. These young eco-activists& present& a hopeful picture of the future of environmentalism These fearless girls and young women from all over the world are standing up to demand change when no one else is.

Author: Pauline Chandler
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060841028
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Although surrounded by treachery, Mariane, a young mute, battles alongside her cousin, Joan of Arc, for the liberation of France from the English.

Author: Britney Brianne Taylor
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1105371751
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 71

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This is a book meant to inspire, and empower. The book is a symbol of strength for its readers. It is one of survival and perseverance. This book is about being a warrior in your life. Read it and pass it along, and inspire others to be warriors in their lives.

Author: Svenja Hohenstein
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476637393
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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Quest narratives are as old as Western culture. In stories like The Odyssey, The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars and Harry Potter, men set out on journeys, fight battles and become heroes. Women traditionally feature in such stories as damsels in need of rescue or as the prizes at the end of heroic quests. These narratives perpetuate predominant gender roles by casting men as active and women as passive. Focusing on stories in which popular teenage heroines--Buffy Summers, Katniss Everdeen and Disney's Princess Merida--embark on daring journeys, this book explores what happens when traditional gender roles and narrative patterns are subverted. The author examines representations of these characters across various media--film, television, novels, posters, merchandise, fan fiction and fan art, and online memes--that model concepts of heroism and girlhood inspired by feminist ideas.

Author: Catherine Driscoll
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231119122
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Driscoll argues that both 'girls' and 'culture' as ideas are too problematic to fulfill any useful role in theorizing about the emergence of feminine adolescence in popular culture.

Author: Jerome Charyn
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453251596
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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DIVIn debt to the mob, Sidel’s sidekick brings hell to One Police Plaza/divDIV/divDIVFor Detective Caroll Brent, special attention from Commissioner Sidel is not a good thing. Sidel’s last pet detective, Manfred Coen, was killed by a gang of smugglers, and none of Sidel’s favorites have had good luck since. But when Sidel taps Brent for an unusual assignment, the young cop can’t refuse./divDIV /divDIVAs part of a feud with the head of the Board of Education, Sidel turns Brent into a one-man special task force to patrol the city’s schools. The lonely, miserable, dangerous work is not Brent’s only trouble. Ever since he made the mistake of marrying an heiress, he has been spending like mad to keep up with her lifestyle, borrowing money from the mob to keep himself in tuxedos on a detective’s salary. When his money runs out, it’s Sidel who will have to cover the debt./div

Author: James Willard Schultz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Partial summary. The fictionalized account of a Blackfoot horse raid on a Kalispel band camped by Flathead Lake. Probably based on a true incident. Running Eagle, a Blackfoot warrior girl, was a member of the war party. The incident would have occured in the 1840's.

Author: Brenna McVay
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532017022
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303

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At the young age of seventeen, Princess Estrella is saddled with a daunting task. When her brother, Gideon, is called away to join King Arthurs round table, Estrella must assume command of her kingdom and family. Confident and obedient, she accepts the task but soon realizes the responsibility is much too big for one princess to handle alone. Estrella is suddenly called away on her own quest by the Lord God Almighty to seek friends and help those in need. Leaving in the night, she abandons her familyas well as the life shes always knownfor the wide world beyond her kingdom walls. Once in the real world, however, she discovers that there is much to see and do, and her spark for adventure is born. She finds friends in unlikely places and meets strange creatures: some good, some bad, and some only believed to exist in myth and legend. Estrella faces many challenges along the way, but she comes to learn that every experience teaches something. On this mad journey, will she grow into the strong woman she must be to rule a kingdom, or will she wander forever?