Girl Power has become the rallying cry for a new generation of girls as they navigate--on their own terms--the perilous yet exhilarating journey from girlhood to adulthood. Though this transformation is often difficult for middle-class white girls growing up in the United States, it is unimaginably more difficult for girls, often in developing countries, who contend with such life-threatening issues as poverty, abuse, and civil war. Indeed, girl power is a luxury these girls can’t afford. Consider the young Thai teenage girl who must work in a button factory in order to save some money for her daughter. Think about the poverty-stricken young girl who is raped in rural Pakistan, and whose rapist is never brought to trial. Consider the journey of the African girl who is adopted and brought to the United States, yet discovers that she is not accepted because of her race. These stories and other equally painful sagas will resonate with readers of this collection, whose chapters will give these and other disenfranchised girls a place to speak, a place to express some of the pain, emotional and physical, of their journey through girlhood.
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Stunning and unforgettable. A darkly glittering array of voices. (Rickie Solinger )
Running for their Lives makes a significant contribution to girls' studies by moving well beyond the field's traditional context of white, middle-class Western female youth and exploring the experiences of girls who are multiply disenfranchised not just by sex and age but also by race, class, ethnicity, and nationality. (Signs )
Running for their Lives makes a significant contribution to girls' studies by moving well beyond the field's traditional context of white, middle-class Western female youth and exploring the experiences of girls who are multiply disenfranchised not just by sex and age but also by race, class, ethnicity, and nationality. (Signs )
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Sherrie A. Inness is associate professor of English at Miami University. She lives in Fairfield, Ohio. She is the editor of, most recently, Millennium Girls: Today’s Girls Around the World (Rowman and Littlefield, 1998) and Delinquents and Debutantes: Twentieth Century American Girls’ Cultures (NYU Press, 1998)
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This review is from: Running for Their Lives: Girls, Cultural Identity, and Stories of Survival (Paperback)
I want to thank Ms. Inness for giving us the opportunity to share our voices with others. I have been writing for a long time and have seen so many letters of rejection that I began to think my voice was unimportant. But our voices are important; every girl has a story. My contribution to this book was important but its only a fraction of what is really going on today with girls in our society. This book stands as a vital part of the whole being -- girls everywhere are running; listen when they speak. *peaCe*
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