Raising Their Voices: The Politics of Girls' Anger

by Lyn Mikel Brown

Book Overview

Two fourteen-year-old girls, fed up with the "Hooters" shirts worn by their male classmates, design their own rooster logo: "Cocks: Nothing to crow about." Seventeen-year-old April Schuldt, unmarried, pregnant, and cheated out of her election as homecoming queen by squeamish school administrators, disrupts a pep rally with a protest that engages the whole school.

Where are spirited girls like these in the popular accounts of teenage girlhood,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674747216
• ISBN13: 9780674747210
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Must Read

As more and more regressive books about girls' meanness to other girls are being published, readers shouldn't forget about this book. To her credit, this author is a distinguished researcher and not just another journalis with a neat idea. Also to her credit is that the research is not just about upper class white girls at exclusive schools, but is about working class girls as well as suburban girls in Maine. IF you're starting to by into the idea that "girls are really meaner than boys" and we should teach them to be nicer, read this book for a different perspective. We need to honor girls' righteous anger and teach them to express it more directly. Brown also talks about why girls take out their anger on other girls instead of on boys who hold the power to confer upon them popular status etc. Don't forget this book when all the trendy ones pass.

raising my voice...

I thought this book was great. I recently read Reviving Ophelia, and Ophelia speaks...and they really got me into reading more about how damaging society today is to adolescent girls. I would highly reccomend reading this book, it give alot of insight as to how to change things, and promote a healthier environment for girls.