Girls’ Studies
Seal Studies
ISBN-10: 1580052487
ISBN-13: 9781580052481
184 pages
Paperback
$14.95 US
Published: October 2009
About the Book
Professors and students alike are taking interest in girls’ studies—the socialization of girls versus boys—and beginning to analyze the impact of media, pop culture, messaging, and more on America’s girls. Girls’ Studies tackles socialization and gender expectations, body image, and media impact, and gives insight into girl empowerment and how to equip our girls for a brighter future.
Reviews
“I’m simply floored by the scope and thoroughness of Elline Lipkin’s work. She covers the history, growth, and controversies of girls’ studies both fairly and clearly, offering a big picture perspective that I’ve never before seen. If I were to recommend one book to students of this field, Girls’ Studies would be it.”
—Peggy Orenstein, author of Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap
Elline Lipkin has written a clear and easy-to-read guide to the emergent and diffuse field of girls’ studies in the United States. The thought-provoking questions peppered throughout the text will provide readers with many opportunities for discussion and deeper consideration of the complexities of girls’ lives.
—Jessica K. Taft, PhD, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Davidson College
About Elline Lipkin
Elline Lipkin grew up in Miami and attended Wesleyan University. She received her MFA in creative writing from Columbia
University and her PhD in creative writing and literature from the University of Houston, where she completed the graduate certificate in women’s studies. For two years she was a postdoctoral scholar with the Beatrice Bain Research Group on Gender at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also taught for the Departments of College Writing, Comparative Literature, and Gender and Women’s Studies. She is now a research scholar with UCLA’s Center for the Study of Women, where her work focuses on girls’ studies and contemporary American women’s poetry.
She is the author of The Errant Thread, and her poems have been published in Crab Orchard Review, Margie, North American Review, The Texas Review, and in The Poets’ Grimm: 20th Century Poems from Grimm Fairy Tales. A contributing writer to Girl w/Pen, her nonfiction writing has appeared on Salon.com and in other contemporary sources.
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