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Schoolgirls
Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap | Peggy Orenstein
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR The classic account of the hurdles facing adolescent girls in America--now reissued with a new Foreword, to coincide with the award-winning author's new book on women and identity. Inspired by a study by the American Association of University Women that showed girls' self-esteem plummeting as they reach adolescence, Peggy Orenstein spent months observing, interviewing, and getting know dozens of girls both inside and outside the classroom at two very different schools in northern California. The result was a groundbreaking book in which she brought the disturbing statistics to life with skill and flair of an experienced journalist. Orenstein plumbs the minds of both boys and girls who have learned to equate masculinity with opportunity and assertiveness, and femininity with reserve and restraint. She demonstrates the cost of this insidious lesson, by taking us into the lives of real young women who are struggling with eating disorders, sexual harassment, and declining academic achievement, especially in math and science. Peggy Orenstein's SchoolGirls is a classic that belongs on the shelf with the work of Carol Gilligan, Joan Jacobs Brumberg, and Mary Pipher. It continues to be read by all who care about how our schools and our society teach girls to shortchange themselves.
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ElizaMarie
ElizaMarie
Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap | Peggy Orenstein
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So I‘ve decided it‘s time. I‘m going back to school for my Nurse Practitioners degree. Classes start Monday. I‘m so nervous, disorganized, ugh about it but I need to stop putting it off

Karisa 😀 That‘s awesome! Not easy to go back to school but what an important calling. The world needs more smart, caring women like you! 💗🎉📚🥳 3y
Cazxxx That‘s amazing! 💜 3y
OriginalCyn620 That‘s awesome! 👍🏻 3y
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Sharpeipup Good for you!! 3y
wanderinglynn That‘s awesome! 🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 3y
Deblovestoread You can do it!! 3y
TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! So exciting!!!! 3y
ElizaMarie @Karisa awe thank you!!! You are amazing ! 3y
ElizaMarie @Cazxxx @OriginalCyn620 @Sharpeipup @wanderinglynn @Kdgordon88 @TheAromaofBooks thank you so so much !! I‘m super nervous about it (because I struggle with perfection but I might make a 2yr stretch out to 3 —- for my sanity. We will see. 3y
Sparklemn Congratulations! 3y
ElizaMarie @Sparklemn thanks :) 3y
DaveGreen7777 Wishing you the best in your journey! 😊 3y
sprainedbrain That‘s awesome! Congrats on taking the plunge. ❤️ 3y
ElizaMarie @DaveGreen7777 @sprainedbrain --- thank you all so much! 3y
Tera66 You got this,friend! Congratulations on your next step!💗 3y
ElizaMarie @Tera66 thanks! I am nervous but excited about it ! 3y
Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick 🍀Good luck!🍀 You're going to be great! 3y
ElizaMarie @Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick thank you thank you!!! 3y
Avanders Congratulations!! And good luck ☺️☺️ 3y
ElizaMarie @Avanders Thanks! 3y
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TrishB
TrishB
Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap | Peggy Orenstein
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Top left - I‘m the one behind the girl kneeling (she was so tall!), top right I‘m the one in the blue t-shirt, bottom left I‘m the one in the middle (obviously I succumbed to 80s curly hair, my next cut was a skin head- to be fair I hated both!).
Gary was developing into a life long passion, Cars was released 41 years ago last week 😱😱
#back2school #bunnyread

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squirrelbrain Fab pics! ❤️ 4y
TrishB These have made me feel very nostalgic and a bit sad. My friend Nicky who‘s next to me on all these photos died at 16 😢. I‘m going to remember the funny, daft things she did to always get us in trouble ♥️ she was one of a kind! 4y
Cinfhen Look at you with that head of curly hair!!!!!!! Fantastic 💜💜💜 geez, we‘re old 😬41 years ago for Cars!!!! Yikes 😱 4y
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Cinfhen Oh, that‘s so sad about your friend 💔 4y
Cathythoughts Lovely pictures! You‘re gorgeous! So sorry about your young friend 💔. I‘ll have to go searching at the weekend ... I have at least a decade on yourself & Cindy 😁... I‘ll have pics of my pregnant Id say 🤣 @Cinfhen 4y
CarolynM Love your photos💕 Must have been tough to lose your friend so young 💔 Bittersweet to remember your schooldays I guess. 4y
erzascarletbookgasm Ah, wonderful times ❤️. You look great! I knew Numan will make an appearance 😘 4y
TrishB @Cinfhen @Cathythoughts @CarolynM thank you friends. I didn‘t talk about it for about 8 years after she died, just couldn‘t. One day I was walking past her mum and dads shop in my mid 20s and just decided to go in. She recognised me straight away and we both cried and had tea and it was the best thing I could have done. ❤️❤️ but you don‘t know that at 16 do you. 4y
TrishB @squirrelbrain @erzascarletbookgasm thank you 😘😘 4y
Cinfhen How wonderful to have had that moment with her parents, probably even more meaningful after all those years. You never get over a loss like that. 4y
AmyG 41 years? Wow does that make me feel old. 😳 Love the pictures. 4y
batsy Lovely pictures! 💕 4y
Caroline2 Great photos! So sorry to hear about your friend tho, that‘s awful. 4y
LeahBergen Oh, to lose a great friend at that age. 💔 4y
Balibee146 Great pics but so sad about your friend 💔 4y
BarbaraBB Sixteen years old.. oh man 💔. I would have loved a pic of you as a skinhead!! 4y
TrishB @AmyG went so quickly! 4y
TrishB @batsy thank you 😘 4y
TrishB @Caroline2 @LeahBergen @Balibee146 thank you 😘 4y
TrishB @BarbaraBB I think one of my sisters has some. I thought I was going to be Sinead O‘Connor and definitely wasn‘t! 4y
BarbaraBB Sinead was so cool too! 4y
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CoffeeCatsBooks
CoffeeCatsBooks
Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap | Peggy Orenstein
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Hey Littens, my awesome co-worker @Momoniqui just joined Litsy. She is one of the sweetest people I know, so please give her a warm Litsy welcome. 😊

Momoniqui 🤓🤗😍🌷 thank you so much! You‘re too sweet! 📚❤️ im so excited to be a part of this community!! (edited) 6y
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TommieMarie74
TommieMarie74
Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap | Peggy Orenstein
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Had to break from reading for fun to do some school work and read for that. Adulting really sucks sometimes....sigh.
#schoolreading #adulting

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BookishFeminist
BookishFeminist
Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap | Peggy Orenstein
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#BookMail I got today 📬🎉

I loved Peggy Orenstein's Girls & Sex last year so I wanted to try more of her work, and this looked up my alley. It's an analysis of how young women form self confidence while growing up and how it can be fostered. It's been a while since it was published but I'm hoping that some of the studies aren't too dated and are still relevant.

TheBookbabeblog84 I had to read this for a paper in college 7y
BookishFeminist @TheBookbabeblog84 How did you like it? And what was your paper on? Sounds like I'd be interested in it :) 7y
TheBookbabeblog84 @BookishFeminist I don't remember finishing it; it was not my cup of tea. And that was like more than five years ago...so I blocked it out lol 7y
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stephhammer
stephhammer
Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap | Peggy Orenstein
Pickpick

My only complaint about this book is that I wanted it to be longer. And now that more than two decades have passed since Orenstein published her books, I wonder how the girls she profiled have done now that they're adults, and I also wonder what this book would like like if Orenstein observed girls in 2016 & with things like social media. I will be thinking about this book for a long time.

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Bkwurm
Bkwurm
Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap | Peggy Orenstein
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Pickpick

A look at 6-8th grade girls, how they're treated differently than boys by teachers, peers, educators, parents, & eventually themselves. It opened my eyes to the "hidden curriculum" we teach & how desperately it needs to change. Published in 1994, it's clear the line we can draw between what's in this book, & the circus that is the 2016 presidential race. Sadly, still all too relevant. (Full review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1742677351)

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