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Voices of a Generation: Teenage Girls on Sex, School, and Self
Voices of a Generation Teenage Girls on Sex School and Self Author:Pamela Haag What would girls write about their lives that they would not say out loud to their parents, teachers, or friends? Voices of a Generation begins to answer this question. It draws on an unprecedented, unique collection of more than 2,000 responses to six questions from girls age 12-16, who participated in more than 50 day-long "Sister-to-Si... more »ster" summits held in 1997-98 nationwide, from Cobb County, Georgia to Kalispell, Montana, inner-city Detroit to Gilroy, California. Girls were asked to identify the major issues and struggles in their lives, to speculate on how their schools could help them, to talk about what they would like to tell other girls--and what they would like to know from other girls. Their passionate, candid, plain-spoken responses cover a wide range of subjects--from sex, pregnancy, body image, and sexual harassment to peer pressure, prejudice, drugs, loneliness, sisterhood, and more. Together they constitute an intimate, unflinching portrait of girls' lives--told in their own terms. Pamela Haag is director of research for the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation. With 1,500 branches representing 150,000 college graduates, The AAUW Educational Foundation is one of the largest sources of funding for graduate women in the US and abroad and commissions ground-breaking research on educational equity. The AAUW, representing 150,000 college graduates in 1,500 communities, is the nation's leading advocate for education and equity for women and girls.« less