Why We Mourn Girlhood. For many women, growing up involves a transformation from subject to object. In her new book, Melissa Febos asks whether we can reverse the process. By Katy Waldman. April 7 ...
What 'Girlhood' Means in 2021
What 'Girlhood' Means in 2021. A conversation with Melissa Febos about her radical essays on youth and gender. One of the first things readers will notice about Melissa Febos's new essay ...
Girlhood
Girlhood by Melissa Febos. reviewed by Marissa Gallerani. Melissa Febos's new essay collection, Girlhood, arrives amid the continued reckoning of the #MeToo movement.As all facets of female life are being reevaluated, Febos turns her attention toward her own childhood, an oft-ignored time in women's lives that is not removed from the pressures of femininity.
In 'Girlhood,' A Writer Examines Her Youth For Signs Of The Woman ...
Melissa Febos' third book of nonfiction, Girlhood, takes the task of looking backward seriously.Although most of the essays dip into the author's adult life as well, they keep trying to find the ...
Puberty, Slut-Shaming and Cuddle Parties in Melissa Febos's 'Girlhood
GIRLHOOD Essays By Melissa Febos. Nearly a decade ago Melissa Febos reflected on her decision to publish her debut memoir, "Whip Smart," under her own name and not a pseudonym: "It didn't ...
"Girlhood is a much darker, more complex—more amazing—experience than
The essays of Girlhood read less like a coming-of-age story than they do like a manifesto of all the ways girlhood takes a toll on a girl's life, as well as of the cultural experience of being a woman. Febos lays bare how girls judge each other and how men objectify them. Men gaze at their developing bodies or, worse, feel entitled to do more ...
The Unending Assaults on Girlhood
Girlhood, Melissa Febos writes in her new essay collection of the same name, is "a darker time for many than we are often willing to acknowledge.". The overall impression she creates is a ...
It's Time to Reckon With Everything Girlhood Did to Us
In an early essay in Girlhood, Melissa Febos describes a pond that she used to frequent as a child: "Despite its small circumference, our pond plummeted fifty feet at its deepest point."This could be a metaphor for female adolescence, the overarching theme of Febos's book. Through the interconnected essays of this collection, she reveals the seeming small circumferences we often place on ...
Unearthing the Complexities of Girlhood with Melissa Febos
Melissa Febos is an author and Associate Professor at the University of Iowa in the Nonfiction Writing Program.Her books include the critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart (St. Martin's Press, 2010), the essay collection Abandon Me (Bloomsbury, 2017), and a new collection of essays on adolescence called Girlhood (Bloomsbury, 2021).Read an excerpt of Girlhood here and purchase a copy here.
New in Paperback: 'Girlhood' and 'The World Without Us'
GIRLHOOD: Essays, by Melissa Febos. (Bloomsbury, 336 pp., $18.) Febos's eight essays on growing up in a female body — and how it is irrevocably marked by patriarchy — draw on investigative ...
Review: Girlhood by Melissa Febos
In the essay's wandering, searching form, Febos creates a whirlpool of space to explore the ripple effects of sexual harm, away from patriarchy's surveillance, judgment, and worn-out tropes. She also comes to a better understanding of what healing looks and feels like. The scars of girlhood may never disappear, but in this collection, Febos ...
Girlhood: 100 Must-Read Books of 2021
Find out why "Girlhood" by Melissa Febos is on TIME's list of the must-read books from this year. ... In this year's best-selling essay collection Girlhood, Febos looks further back, digging ...
Girlhood is remarkable
X (Twitter) Girlhood, Céline Sciamma's new film, opens with one of the most remarkable sequences that I have ever seen in a cinema. Figures play a game of American touch football under the ...
Melissa Febos on How Patriarchy and Capitalism Conspire Against Women
Melissa Febos in her previous works has investigated herself with smart, hawk-eyed precision and dazzling prose. In Girlhood, Febos's new essay collection, she turns her unflinching eye to the experience of coming of age in a female body.. Pulling from her own memories and reflections, interspersed with those of women she interviewed, Febos reveals how even the most "normal," fortunate ...
Girlhood by Melissa Febos
Girlhood is a collection of seven essays that focus on the period between adolescence and womanhood, a time when women initially reap the consequences of the ways that society and the patriarchy have conditioned us to cater to the needs and desires of men, while losing ourselves in the process. Melissa Febos uses some of the smartest and most ...
Girlhood by Melissa Febos review
Febos's account of the cuddle party features in "Thank You for Taking Care of Yourself", one of the autobiographical essays in Girlhood, a book about the minefield that is growing up a girl ...
I am a Girl
During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the word girl started to refer specifically to a female child, or a young, unmarried woman. From the 1640s, "girl" could also mean "sweetheart.". Stemmed from the word "girl," girlhood as a word appeared later in the mid-eighteenth century. Since the beginning, it was coined with the ...
Girlhood: : Melissa Febos: Bloomsbury Publishing
I wish I could have read Girlhood when I was young . . .Over the course of eight essays with poignant illustrations by Forsyth Harmon, Febos interrogates the strength, savvy and vulnerabilities of girlhood . . . whether examining adolescent bullying and the etymological roots of the word 'slut' or exploring the evolution of consent against the backdrop of cuddle parties, Febos illuminates how ...
Girlhood
Girlhood. The following is excerpted from Ani Gjika's memoir, ... Essays. Online 2021 Relationships Work Youth. Albanian-born writer Ani Gjika is the author and literary translator of eight books and chapbooks of poetry, among them Bread on Running Waters (Fenway Press, ...
With Girlhood, one of the queer community's favorite writers, Melissa Febos, has written her career-best." - The Advocate "Girlhood, the dazzling new essay collection by Melissa Febos, captures the potency of a woman's adolescence--an experience that is at once singular and universal, familiar and uncharted, ordinary and remarkable. By ...
Summary and reviews of Girlhood by Melissa Febos
Melissa Febos. Melissa Febos is the author of the memoirs Whip Smart and Abandon Me.Her essays have appeared in Tin House, The Believer, the New York Times, the Kenyon Review, Lenny Letter, and elsewhere.Portions from Abandon Me have won prizes from Prairie Schooner, StoryQuarterly, and twice earned notice in the 2015 Best American Essays anthology. The recipient of fellowships from The ...
7 Short Story Collections About the Joys and Struggles of Girlhood
A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer by Christine Schutt. As Tiffany McDaniel opens, in her novel Betty, set in Ohio Appalachia, "A girl comes of age against the knife.". Becoming is brutal. The mystery of this transformative journey is where a poets' touch becomes essential, helping to articulate the ineffable.
A Tribute to Girlhood
Melissa Febos' Girlhood consists of seven powerful essays about the factors that influence girls and their transformation into adulthood. The essays illustrate Febos' personal experiences and includes interviews with several other women explaining their own stories. Febos takes readers on a captivating journey of the many challenges and ...
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Clean Away: An Earth Day Essay And Thank You From Artist Sage Bava. Apr 22, 2024, 03:43am EDT. ... The movie is a celebration of girlhood and steeped in nostalgia, so I'd infuse the space with ...
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Why We Mourn Girlhood. For many women, growing up involves a transformation from subject to object. In her new book, Melissa Febos asks whether we can reverse the process. By Katy Waldman. April 7 ...
What 'Girlhood' Means in 2021. A conversation with Melissa Febos about her radical essays on youth and gender. One of the first things readers will notice about Melissa Febos's new essay ...
Girlhood by Melissa Febos. reviewed by Marissa Gallerani. Melissa Febos's new essay collection, Girlhood, arrives amid the continued reckoning of the #MeToo movement.As all facets of female life are being reevaluated, Febos turns her attention toward her own childhood, an oft-ignored time in women's lives that is not removed from the pressures of femininity.
Melissa Febos' third book of nonfiction, Girlhood, takes the task of looking backward seriously.Although most of the essays dip into the author's adult life as well, they keep trying to find the ...
GIRLHOOD Essays By Melissa Febos. Nearly a decade ago Melissa Febos reflected on her decision to publish her debut memoir, "Whip Smart," under her own name and not a pseudonym: "It didn't ...
The essays of Girlhood read less like a coming-of-age story than they do like a manifesto of all the ways girlhood takes a toll on a girl's life, as well as of the cultural experience of being a woman. Febos lays bare how girls judge each other and how men objectify them. Men gaze at their developing bodies or, worse, feel entitled to do more ...
Girlhood, Melissa Febos writes in her new essay collection of the same name, is "a darker time for many than we are often willing to acknowledge.". The overall impression she creates is a ...
In an early essay in Girlhood, Melissa Febos describes a pond that she used to frequent as a child: "Despite its small circumference, our pond plummeted fifty feet at its deepest point."This could be a metaphor for female adolescence, the overarching theme of Febos's book. Through the interconnected essays of this collection, she reveals the seeming small circumferences we often place on ...
Melissa Febos is an author and Associate Professor at the University of Iowa in the Nonfiction Writing Program.Her books include the critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart (St. Martin's Press, 2010), the essay collection Abandon Me (Bloomsbury, 2017), and a new collection of essays on adolescence called Girlhood (Bloomsbury, 2021).Read an excerpt of Girlhood here and purchase a copy here.
GIRLHOOD: Essays, by Melissa Febos. (Bloomsbury, 336 pp., $18.) Febos's eight essays on growing up in a female body — and how it is irrevocably marked by patriarchy — draw on investigative ...
In the essay's wandering, searching form, Febos creates a whirlpool of space to explore the ripple effects of sexual harm, away from patriarchy's surveillance, judgment, and worn-out tropes. She also comes to a better understanding of what healing looks and feels like. The scars of girlhood may never disappear, but in this collection, Febos ...
Find out why "Girlhood" by Melissa Febos is on TIME's list of the must-read books from this year. ... In this year's best-selling essay collection Girlhood, Febos looks further back, digging ...
X (Twitter) Girlhood, Céline Sciamma's new film, opens with one of the most remarkable sequences that I have ever seen in a cinema. Figures play a game of American touch football under the ...
Melissa Febos in her previous works has investigated herself with smart, hawk-eyed precision and dazzling prose. In Girlhood, Febos's new essay collection, she turns her unflinching eye to the experience of coming of age in a female body.. Pulling from her own memories and reflections, interspersed with those of women she interviewed, Febos reveals how even the most "normal," fortunate ...
Girlhood is a collection of seven essays that focus on the period between adolescence and womanhood, a time when women initially reap the consequences of the ways that society and the patriarchy have conditioned us to cater to the needs and desires of men, while losing ourselves in the process. Melissa Febos uses some of the smartest and most ...
Febos's account of the cuddle party features in "Thank You for Taking Care of Yourself", one of the autobiographical essays in Girlhood, a book about the minefield that is growing up a girl ...
During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the word girl started to refer specifically to a female child, or a young, unmarried woman. From the 1640s, "girl" could also mean "sweetheart.". Stemmed from the word "girl," girlhood as a word appeared later in the mid-eighteenth century. Since the beginning, it was coined with the ...
I wish I could have read Girlhood when I was young . . .Over the course of eight essays with poignant illustrations by Forsyth Harmon, Febos interrogates the strength, savvy and vulnerabilities of girlhood . . . whether examining adolescent bullying and the etymological roots of the word 'slut' or exploring the evolution of consent against the backdrop of cuddle parties, Febos illuminates how ...
Girlhood. The following is excerpted from Ani Gjika's memoir, ... Essays. Online 2021 Relationships Work Youth. Albanian-born writer Ani Gjika is the author and literary translator of eight books and chapbooks of poetry, among them Bread on Running Waters (Fenway Press, ...
With Girlhood, one of the queer community's favorite writers, Melissa Febos, has written her career-best." - The Advocate "Girlhood, the dazzling new essay collection by Melissa Febos, captures the potency of a woman's adolescence--an experience that is at once singular and universal, familiar and uncharted, ordinary and remarkable. By ...
Melissa Febos. Melissa Febos is the author of the memoirs Whip Smart and Abandon Me.Her essays have appeared in Tin House, The Believer, the New York Times, the Kenyon Review, Lenny Letter, and elsewhere.Portions from Abandon Me have won prizes from Prairie Schooner, StoryQuarterly, and twice earned notice in the 2015 Best American Essays anthology. The recipient of fellowships from The ...
A Day, A Night, Another Day, Summer by Christine Schutt. As Tiffany McDaniel opens, in her novel Betty, set in Ohio Appalachia, "A girl comes of age against the knife.". Becoming is brutal. The mystery of this transformative journey is where a poets' touch becomes essential, helping to articulate the ineffable.
Melissa Febos' Girlhood consists of seven powerful essays about the factors that influence girls and their transformation into adulthood. The essays illustrate Febos' personal experiences and includes interviews with several other women explaining their own stories. Febos takes readers on a captivating journey of the many challenges and ...
Clean Away: An Earth Day Essay And Thank You From Artist Sage Bava. Apr 22, 2024, 03:43am EDT. ... The movie is a celebration of girlhood and steeped in nostalgia, so I'd infuse the space with ...