Traces the history of growing up female in America as told by the girls themselves in journals, household manuals, letters, slave narratives, and other primary sources.

Text and photographs present stories of girls who ride in rodeos, show jump, train miniature horses and wild ponies, and live on a horse farm.

For most of her life Li'l Jinx has found life was easy to understand. Now that she's in high school, a more mature Jinx Holliday is discovering that growing up is complicated, especially when she's confronted with an absent mother, gender identity, and sexual preference. Jinx deals with the stuff that we all encounter when we reach high school.

Explores the changes in the way teenage girls are growing up in America, discussing the new norms, from extreme behaviors to lack of basic communication skills.

Traces the development of women's basketball, from its beginnings at Smith College to today's Women's National Basketball Association.

Looking beyond the satin gowns, opera-length gloves, and sparkling tiaras that signify Filipino debutantes and Mexican quinceañeras, Evelyn Ibatan Rodriguez examines the meaning of these coming-of-age rituals for immigrant American families. Celebrating Debutantes and Quinceañeras draws parallels between these communal ceremonies, as they share a commonality in Spanish heritage and Catholicism in a highly ritualized celebration. Rodriguez analyses...