Girls, Teens, and Young Women
Growing up female in America is harder than ever. Media and peer pressure, teenage sex and abstinence, friendships and relationships - they all complicate your life when you're just trying to make it to adulthood.
Book review of "Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters" by Courtney E. Martin
An inteview with Shannon Hale, Newbery award-winning author of "Princess Academy"
A review of the WE tv series "High School Confidential," an 8 hour documentary that looks at what high school is really like from the perspective of 12 teenage girls from freshman through senior year.
A how-to book that's more like a cheat sheet for young women starting out, "The Girl's Guide to Everything" covers nitty gritty details you need to know. Health, work, money, relationships, and more are included in this readable resource.
Girls, teens and women confront body image issues every day. With the U.S. premiere of five separate documentaries, BBC America explores Hollywood-style extreme weight loss, teenage obesity, breast enlargement, breast reduction, and gender identification through the eyes of a teen dealing with transsexuality.
Schools are trying very hard to ensure that students - especially females - aren't subjected to unwanted touching or sexual harassment by other students. But at one school, one administrator may have gone too far.
The social networking site Facebook promises a level of security and safety for its users. But as investigators from the New York State Attorney General's Office discovered when posing online as young teenage girls, sexual predators are out there, waiting.
