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

by Febos, Melissa.

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Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021.

Febos, Melissa.

Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography.

Girls in popular culture -- United States.

Women -- Identity.

Coming of age -- Biography.

9781635572520 (hc.)

xii, 320 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

"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."--From publisher.

Harmon, Forsyth, 1979-

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