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Books and Links

4000 Years of Women in Science
http://crux.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html

Latino Links: links we like
http://www.latinolink.com/education/teens/questions.php3

Native American Schools, Student Groups
http://hanksville.phast.umass.edu:80/misc/NAschools.html

The Ada Project: women in computer science
http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/tap/tap.html

Voices of Youth around the world
http://www.unicef.org/voy/

The Young Scientist Program
http://medinfo.wustl.edu/~ysp/

Expect the best from a girl
http://www.academic.org/

Dear Concha: send a letter to Concha!
http://www.mit.edu:8001/activities/lucha/dear-concha.html

Bess' Science and Nature
http://bess.net/science_and_nature/

Georgy Girl's Ocean Links
http://www.uslink.net/ocean/

Electronic Activist: write your congress people!
http://www.berkshire.net/~ifas/activist/washington.html

Club Girl Tech
http://www.girltech.com/

Teen Links
http://education.indiana.edu/cas/adol/teen.html

Fun Educational Stuff for Girls
http://www.sig.net/~scicomp/twist/kidFun.html

Her Online
http://www.her-online.com/

Saludos Career Center
http://www.saludos.com/career.html

Current Research and Writings on Female Adolescence

American Association of University Women Educational Foundation. (1993). Hostile Hallways: The AAUW Survey on Sexual Harassment in American's Schools.

American Association of University Women. (1991). Shortchanging America Girls, Shortchanging America

Brown, L. And Gilligan, C. (1992). Meeting at the Crossroads, New York: Ballantine

Fine, M. (1988). Sexuality, Schooling and Adolescent Females: The Missing Discourse of Desire, Harvard Educational Review, 58, 1

Gilligan, C., Lyon, N., and Hanmer, T., eds. (1990)., Making Connection: The Relational Worlds of Adolescent Girls at Emma Willard School, Cambridge: Harvard University Press

McKenna, Teresa and Ortiz, F.I. (1988). The Broken Web: The Educational Experience of Hispanic American Women, Berkeley: Floricanto Press

Minnesota Women's Fund with the assistance of the National Adolescent Health Resource Center. (1990). Reflections of Risk: Growing Up Female in Minnesota: Minneapolis: Minnesota Women's Fund

Robinson, T. and Ward, J. (1991). A Belief in Self Far Greater than Anyone's Disbelief: Cultivating Resistance among African-American Female Adolescents. In Women, Girls and Psychotherapy: Reframing Resistance, Gilligan, Rogers, and Tolman, eds., New Y ork: Haworth Press.

Simmons, R. and Blyth, D. (1987). Moving into Adolescence: The Impact of Pubetal Change and School Context. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter Press.

Schultz, D. (1991). Risk, Resiliency, and Resistance: Current Research on Adolescent Girls, Ms. Foundation for Women and the National Council for Research on Women.

Fiction, Resource Books, and Magazines for Girls and Young Women

Alvarez, J. (1992). How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accent. New York: Plume

Augenbraum, H. And Staven, I, eds. (1993). Growing Up Latino: Memoirs and Stories. Boston: Houghton Mifflin

Calderon, Sara Levi. (1992) The Two Mujeres. (Trans. by Gina Kaufer.) San Francisco, Aunt Lute

Cameron, A. (1981). Daughters of Copper Woman. Vancouver, B.C.: Press Gang Publishers

Cisneros, S. (1991). The House on Mango Street. New York: Vintage

Debold, E., Malave, I., & Wilson, M. (1993). Mother Daughter Revolution. New York: Addison Wesley

Dorris, M. (1988). Yellow Raft in Blue Water. New York: Warner Books

Kincaid, J. (1992). Girl in At the Bottom of the River, New York: Plume

Maggio, R. The Beacon Book of Quotations By Women, Boston: Beacon Press

Orenstein, P. & American Association of University Women. (1994). Schoolgirls, New York: Doubleday

Pipher, M. (1994). Reviving Ophelia, New York: Ballantine

Read, P.J. and Witlieb, B.L. (1992) A Book of Women's First, New York: Random House

Tinajero, J. , Gonzalez, M. and Dick, F. (1991). Raising Career Aspirations of Hispanic Girls, Bloominton, IN: Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation.

Wallis, V. (1993). Two Old Women, Fairbanks: Epicenter Press

Girls and Young Women Leading the Way, Free Spirit Publishing (612) 338-2068

A Portrait of American Mothers and Daughters, New Sage Press

New Moon Magazine, New Moon: Duluth, MN

 


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