Girls

"Girls Rock" Theme Rings in the New School Year

Alyssa Best | Posted 08.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Rock N' Roll, Miley Cyrus, Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls, Guitar, Wal-Mart, Rock 'N' Roll Camp for Girls, Self-Esteem Issues, Girls Leadership, Hannah Montana, Girls, Girls Rock, Girls Rock! DC, Living News
Alyssa Best

As a child, I loved the month of August--not for the waning weeks of summer vacation--but because it meant the start of a new school year was just aro...

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It's Like A Promise Ring For Your Butt!

Leslie Goldman | Posted 06.13.2008 | Living

Read More: Girls, Virgin, True Love Waits, Women, Clothing, Pink, Irony, Pants, Juicy, Delta Gamma, Living News
Leslie Goldman

Currently on sale at K-Mart, parents can buy their precious little girls a fashion-y treat with the ultimate in biblical commitments splayed across their prepubescent hips: True Love Waits.

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Put Some Clothes On!

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 05.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Girls, Dance, Education, Stripping, Feminism, Sex, Sexuality, Parenting, Living News
Danielle Cavallucci

It's time we put our girls back in decent clothing, quit teaching them beauty is everything, and trained them to take responsibility for their bodies.

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In One Collective Pause -- the World Waits to Stop the Atrocities in Zimbabwe!

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Women, Global Outrage, Child Soldiers, United Nations, Abuse, Rape, Girls, Human Rights Violations, Human Despair, Blood Diamond, Mugabe, Mobsters, International Red Cross, The Red Cross, Youth Militia, Torture, Dictator, Politics News
Michealene Cristini Risley

Why does the world watch in slow motion as Zimbabweans are threatened, beaten and tortured back into submission.

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A Bad Week For Body Image

Leslie Goldman | Posted 04.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Girls, Skinny, Australia, Body Image, Eating Disorders, Weight, Cliques, Queen Bee, Teenagers, Living News
Leslie Goldman

Club 21 is an elite clique to which high school girls at St Patrick's College can belong. The thinner the girl, the prettier and more popular she is assumed to be and the higher her rank, from 1 to 21.

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My First Princess Party

Pamela Paul | Posted 03.31.2008 | Living

Read More: Peggy Orenstein, Parenting, Tweens, Million Dollar Babies, Princesses, Rachel Kramer Bussel, Inc., Parenthood, Girls, Princess Party, Toddlers, Girls and Princesses, Feminism, Living News
Pamela Paul

What gets me riled about the whole princess situation is less the feminist dilemma over iffy role models (though feminist I am), and more the concerted sales effort of the princess marketing machine.

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Not Taking Girls for Granted

Cristina Pippa | Posted 10.26.2007 | Living

Read More: Girls, Philanthropy, Gender Stereotypes, Stereotypes, Philanthropists, Girls Grant, Giving Back, Young Women, Grants, Teen Girls, Girls Grant Project, Giving, Teenagers, Gender, Girls as Grantmakers, Living News
Cristina Pippa

"Girls As Grantmakers" programs operate based on the principle that girls can learn to be philanthropists in the same way that they learn to be anything else -- through practical experience.

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Plastic Fantastic!

Beth Lapides | Posted 10.01.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Symbolism, Hbo, Girls, Environmental Estrogens, Estrogen, Plastic, Semiotics, Tell Me You Love Me, Mothers, Fall TV Season, Entertainment News
Beth Lapides

Maybe in the next episode of Tell me You Love Me they'll realize that the estrogens may be partially responsible for the husband's lack of sex drive. Or maybe that won't happen for another year.

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Gratitude: Musings after my Incarceration in Zimbabwe

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 09.01.2007 | Living

Read More: Tapestries of Hope, Girls, Girl Child Network, Zimbabwe, Abuse, Rape, Betty Makoni, Living News
Michealene Cristini Risley

I recently traveled to Africa to tell the story of the rape and abuse of young girls in Zimbabwe. After arrest and interrogation, I am grateful to be walking again on U. S. soil.

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