Philosophy and Research
Recommended Reading List for Parenting and Educating Girls
Compiled by Nancy Davies, Revised Summer 2006
Barbieri, Maureen. Sounds from the Heart: Learning to Listen to Girls.
Belenky, Mary, et al. Women's Ways of Knowing.
Brown, Lyn Mikel and Carol Gilligan. Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development.
Cohen-Sandler, Roni. Stressed-out Girls.
Davis, Sara N.; Crawford, Mary; Jadwiga, Sebrechts. Coming Into Her Own.
Deak, JoAnn. Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters.
Deak, JoAnn. How Girls Thrive: An Essential Guide to Educating Girls.
Debold, Elizabeth, Idelisse Malave, and Marie Wilson. Mother Daughter Revolution: From Betrayal to Power.
Elium, Jeanne and Don Elium. Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of Healthy Women.
Ellis, Julie L. and John M. Willinsky. Girls, Women and Giftedness.
Evans, Robert. Family Matters
Helgesen, Sally. The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership.
Hersch, Patricia. A Tribe Apart.
Kenway, Jane and Sue Willis. Hearts and Minds: Self-Esteem and the Schooling of Girls.
Kerr, Barbara A. Smart Girls Two.
Levine, Mel. A Mind at a Time.
Levine, Mel. The Myth of Laziness.
Miller, Alice. The Drama of the Gifted Child.
O'Reilly, Patricia; Penn, Elizabeth; deMarrais, Editors. Educating Young Adolescent Girls.
Orenstein, Peggy. Schoolgirls.
Pipher, Mary. Reviving Ophelia.
Pipher, Mary. The Shelter of Each Other.
Sadker, Myra and David Sadker. Failing at Fairness: How America's Schools Cheat Girls.
Sax, Leonard. Why Gender Matters.
Simmons, Rachel. Odd Girl Out.
Stabiner, Karen. All Girls: Single Sex Education and Why It Matters.
Stepp, Laura Sessions. Our Last Best Shot.
Strauch, Barbara. The Primal Teen.
Thompson, Michael. The Pressured Child.
