"Girls Rock" Theme Rings in the New School Year
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...
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...
Leslie Goldman | Posted 06.13.2008 | Living
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.
Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 05.24.2008 | Living
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.
Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 05.18.2008 | Politics
Why does the world watch in slow motion as Zimbabweans are threatened, beaten and tortured back into submission.
Leslie Goldman | Posted 04.25.2008 | Living
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.
Pamela Paul | Posted 03.31.2008 | Living
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.
Cristina Pippa | Posted 10.26.2007 | Living
"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.
Beth Lapides | Posted 10.01.2007 | Entertainment
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.
Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 09.01.2007 | Living
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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Alyssa Best | Posted 08.20.2008 | Living