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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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The New Southern Girl: Female Adolescence in the Works of 12 Women Authors

The New Southern Girl: Female Adolescence in the Works of 12 Women Authors

Town, Caren J.

Paperback

Literary CriticismWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0786418931
ISBN13: 9780786418930
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Jun 3 2004
Pages: 199
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.53 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

Much has been written about America's troubled teens, particularly endangered teenage girls. Works like Mary Pipher's Reviving Ophelia and many others have contributed to the general perception that contemporary young women are in a state of crisis. Parents, educators, social scientists, and other concerned individuals worry that our nation's girls are losing their ambition, moral direction, and self-esteem as they enter adolescence--which can then lead them to promiscuous sex, anorexia, drug abuse, and at the very least, declining math scores. In spite of evidence to the contrary in life and literature, this bleak picture is seldom challenged, but a good place to begin may be with recent literary representations of young women, fictional and autobiographical, which show proud young women who are highly focused and use their brains and good humor to work toward satisfying adult lives.

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