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Girlhood

by Melissa Febos
$14.90
Girlhood
Girlhood

Insightful essays shaping girls' lives and growth.

"Girlhood" delicately unravels the complexities of growing up female. Melissa Febos offers not just stories but a compass for navigating the societal currents that mold girls into adults. If you're searching for understanding or a rich, resonant guide through the experience of girlhood and its lasting effects, this book is a profound companion.

  • Lambda Literary Award Nominee for LGBTQ Nonfiction (2021)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (2021)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Girlhood

by Melissa Febos
$14.90
ISBN: 9781635579314
Authors: Melissa Febos
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Date of Publication: 2022-05-24
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Personal Development, Creative Nonfiction, Biographies & Memoirs
Related Topics: Memoir, Personal Development, Inspirational, Essays, Psychology
Goodreads rating: 4.22
(rated by 11148 readers)

Description

A gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the adults they become. A wise and brilliant guide to transforming the self and our society. In her powerful new book, critically acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told about what it means to be female and what it takes to free oneself from them. When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time, Febos increasingly questioned the stories she'd been told about herself and the habits and defenses she'd developed over years of trying to meet others' expectations. The values she and so many other women had learned in girlhood did not prioritize their personal safety, happiness, or freedom, and she set out to reframe those values and beliefs. Blending investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship, Febos charts how she and others like her have reimagined relationships and made room for the anger, grief, power, and pleasure women have long been taught to deny. Written with Febos' characteristic precision, lyricism, and insight, Girlhood is a philosophical treatise, an anthem for women, and a searing study of the transitions into and away from girlhood, toward a chosen self.
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*Books may be missing bundle media (e.g. CD, e-book code), if included.

 

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Insightful essays shaping girls' lives and growth.

"Girlhood" delicately unravels the complexities of growing up female. Melissa Febos offers not just stories but a compass for navigating the societal currents that mold girls into adults. If you're searching for understanding or a rich, resonant guide through the experience of girlhood and its lasting effects, this book is a profound companion.

  • Lambda Literary Award Nominee for LGBTQ Nonfiction (2021)
  • National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (2021)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.