Haruhi, a poor girl who is paying off her debt while working at a male club as a boy, tries to survive the sports festival at Ouran High School when the bonds of friendship are tested.
Because she does not sew, cook, or dance like a "proper se?orita, " Frida cannot please her mother until she saves the day at the fiesta with her special talent.
After all his female relatives refuse to knit him a scarf as they go on about their business--driving the cows, building a crib--Grandfather learns to knit himself.
With her father and brothers gone to serve in the Civil War and her mother sick, teenage Valor ignores what is proper behavior for a girl and fights to defend her North Carolina mountain farm.
The members of the California Dreams rock band decide to compete in a triathlon, but when Jenny and Tiffani learn that only the boys will compete, they form an all-girls team in a bid for equality.
In fourteenth-century Bologna, Alessandra Giliani, a brilliant young girl, defies convention and risks death in order to attend medical school at the university so that she can study anatomy.
Susanna Shakespeare yearns to travel to London like her father, to experience the world of actors and poets and to follow her own dream of singing, a path followed only by men.
Presents the author's first-hand account of her experiences transforming herself into a man for eighteen months, penetrating the social and cultural world of her male counterparts in disguise.
Contains essays that provide information about the roles of women in twelve ancient civilizations around the world, discussing women's religious, political, public, economic, and domestic activities, their legal status, and their artistic endeavors.
