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Author:

Febos, Melissa, author.

Title:

Girlhood : essays / Melissa Febos with illustrations by Forsyth Harmon.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Subject:

Febos, Melissa--Psychology.
Authors, American--21st century--Biography.
Women--Psychology.
Girls--Psychology.
Women--Identity.
Women--Social conditions--21st century.
Girls--Social conditions--21st century.
Coming of age.
Autobiographies.
Essays.

Other Authors:

Harmon, Forsyth, 1979- illustrator.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Les calanques. Kettle holes -- The mirror test -- Wild America -- Intrusions -- Thesmophoria -- Thank you for taking care of yourself -- Les calanques.

Summary:

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. 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 --Publisher marketing.

ISBN:

1635572525
9781635572520

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1243268981

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

CEAX572 -- Kirkwood Community College Library (Cedar Rapids)

CBPF522 -- Coralville Public Library (Coralville)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)

GYPE631 -- Knoxville Public Library (Knoxville)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)