Powered by Girl: A Field Guide for Supporting Youth Activists - Softcover

Brown, Lyn Mikel

 
9780807094600: Powered by Girl: A Field Guide for Supporting Youth Activists
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807094609 ISBN 13: 9780807094600
Publisher: Beacon Press, 2016

Synopsis

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 Montaño, 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.

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About the Author

Lyn Mikel Brown has been studying and working with girls for more than twenty-five years. A professor of education and human development at Colby College, she is the author of five previous books about gender and girlhood, and is the cofounder of three grassroots organizations.

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Publisher
Beacon Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0807094609
ISBN 13 
9780807094600
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
216