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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Everything will be different Everything will be different Mark Schultz Teenage Charlotte's beautiful mother is dead, and in the midst of her own grief and her father's unwillingness to cope, she turns for comfort to the story of Helen of Troy, convinced that beauty, des… OL12508834W
Real girl/real world Real girl/real world Heather M. Gray Provides information for teenage girls about sexuality, birth control, health, body image, eating disorders, and feminism. OL1832194W
Land of love and drowning Land of love and drowning Tiphanie Yanique In the early 1900s, an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea, just as the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule. Orphaned by the sunk vessel are two sisters and their half… OL18445546W
Bone Gap Bone Gap Laura Ruby Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him… OL19663956W
Liberated threads Liberated threads Tanisha C. Ford The author explores how and why black women, from the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s through anti-apartheid activism in the 1980s and beyond, and in places as far-flung as New York Cit… OL20018490W
The Ways Women Age The Ways Women Age Abigail T. Brooks 1 online resource OL20209770W
Mei li bi ji Mei li bi ji Yunrong Jin Collection of articles on beauty appeared as the "Notes on Beauty" column in Chinese edition of Cosmo. The author is a columnist, an aromatherapist, and a TV hostess. OL20653104W
Real gorgeous Real gorgeous Kaz Cooke Shapes and sizes - Weight - Nutrition - Diet - Obesity - Eating disorders - Exercise - Body image - Fashion - Self image - Self esteem. OL24155223W
Beauty bound Beauty bound Rita Jackaway Freedman Includes material on femininity (psychology). OL2476547W
Bodies Bodies Susie Orbach The body is no longer a given and to possess a flawless one has become the ambition of millions around the world. The author has come to realise that the way we view our bodies is the mirror of how w… OL24815749W
The Power of Beauty (Ome) The Power of Beauty (Ome) Nancy Friday An examination of the changes in women's attitudes about self-esteem, appearance, and sexuality over the past twenty-five years journeys from the fashion runways of Paris to the two-parent nursery, f… OL733151W
That Devil Called Love That Devil Called Love Lynda Chater 440 pages ; 20 cm OL8256987W