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The difference : growing up female in America by Mann, Judy (Judy W.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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The Difference was inspired by Judy Mann's need to find out what she could do to help her own daughter. Where do girls get derailed? How does it happen? Can the young girls of today climb the ladder to adulthood without being silenced and submerged into a male culture? Or will they be forced to spend the decade of their twenties in denial and their thirties in recovery, like generations of women before them? Why, after three decades of feminist fulminations, has so little changed? To find the answers, Mann immersed herself in a two-year investigation. She interviewed experts who provided insights into all of the cultural cripplers that affect girls from time they are born. She visited single-sex and coed schools, listened to rock and rap music, read school texts, and talked to parents, psychologists, educators, and scientists researching gender. She traveled back aeons to find out what occurred in the ancient past that led to the imbalance of power that makes today's culture so perilous for girls. She examined the role of political systems and religions in perpetuating boys' sense of entitlement and girls' disabling sense of submission. And she talked at length to her own teenage d

Who reads The difference : growing up female in America?

Author

Mann, Judy (Judy W.)

Publisher

Grand Central Publishing

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780446517072

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, Gender Studies, Social Science

Rating

3.42 / 5 (19 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13