| Powered by Girl: A Field Guide for Supporting Youth Activists Contributor(s): Brown, Lyn Mikel (Author) |
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ISBN: 0807094609 ISBN-13: 9780807094600 Publisher: Beacon Press OUR PRICE: $15.84 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Comparative - Social Science | Children's Studies - Social Science | Volunteer Work |
| Dewey: 320.408 |
| LCCN: 2016012869 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.65 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A playbook for working with and training girls to be activists of their own social movements Drawing from a diverse collection of interviews with women and girl activists, Powered by Girl is both a journalistic exploration of how girls have embraced activism and a guide for adults who want to support their organizing. Here we learn about the intergenerational support behind thirteen-year-old Julia Bluhm when she got Seventeen to go Photoshop free; nineteen-year-old Celeste Monta o, who pressed Google to diversify their Doodles; and sixteen-year-old Yas Necati, who campaigns for better sex education. And we learn what experienced adult activists say about how to scaffold girls' social-change work. Brown argues that adults shouldn't encourage girls to "lean in." Rather, girls should be supported in creating their own movements--disrupting the narrative, developing their own ideas--on their own terms. |