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A
gripping set of stories about the forces that shape girls and the
adults they become. A wise and brilliant guide to transforming the self
and our society.
In her powerful new book, critically
acclaimed author Melissa Febos examines the narratives women are told
about what it means to be female and what it takes to free oneself from
them.
When her body began to change at eleven years old, Febos
understood immediately that her meaning to other people had changed with
it. By her teens, she defined herself based on these perceptions and by
the romantic relationships she threw herself into headlong. Over time,
Febos increasingly questioned the stories she’d been told about herself
and the habits and defenses she’d developed over years of trying to meet
others’ expectations. The values she and so many other women had
learned in girlhood did not prioritize their personal safety, happiness,
or freedom, and she set out to reframe those values and beliefs.
Blending
investigative reporting, memoir, and scholarship, Febos charts how she
and others like her have reimagined relationships and made room for the
anger, grief, power, and pleasure women have long been taught to deny.
Written with Febos’ characteristic precision, lyricism, and insight, Girlhood
is a philosophical treatise, an anthem for women, and a searing study
of the transitions into and away from girlhood, toward a chosen self.
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