Jennifer Boylan discusses how she spent the first forty years of life knowing she was a woman trapped in a man's body and explores how her physical, emotional, and spiritual life was changed after a sex-change operation.
In fourteenth-century Italy, Antonia, the daughter of Dante Alighieri, longs for a stable family and home while developing her artistic talent and seeking a place for herself in a world with limited options for women.
Describes the duties and working conditions of several occupations held by women in Victorian England, including pieceworker, shopkeeper, servant, governess, midwife, migrant worker, factory worker, philanthropist, reformer, entertainer, and writer.
how gender shapes who we are, what we want, and how we get along
Abrahams, George
2002
Presents information about gender and how it affects boys and girls, based on a nationwide survey of nearly two thousand teens and preteens, and includes quotations, activities, surveys to copy, and checklists.
Teenage martial artist Ranma is cursed--he turns into a girl every time he is splashed with cold water. To make matters worse, now he must fend off the advances of a boy who has fallen in love with him.
Attempting to break free from the oppression of women in the nineteenth century, sixteen-year-old Devonny steps through time hoping to find the power to change her fate.
Examines women's contribution to the evolution of the human race, and the female achievement on every level-cultural, commerical domestic, emotional, and social.
In Williamsburg, Virginia, two years before the start of the American Revolution, nine-year-old Maria worries that her mother will lose her contract to publish official reports and announcements of the British government because she prints anti-British articles in their family-run newspaper.
Ann, a young girl in eighteenth-century Williamsburg, wants to become a doctor like her father, but she is not allowed even to study Latin or mathematics.
