My work in the girl empowerment space has brought me into contact with many of the world’s leading experts on raising emotionally healthy, adventurous daughters. They are fantastic colleagues, and in many cases, beloved friends.
Within Her Next Chapter you will read some of their words of wisdom, but here on this website is a comprehensive list of links to psychologists, authors, educators, media literacy experts and others who share the mission of making the world a better place for girls and women. I want you to have what I didn’t when Charlotte was younger—a list of prescreened resources for raising empowered girls in a disempowering culture. So here it is!
Books
- Let’s Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14– Bauermeister, Erica
- Raising Girls – Biddulph, Steve
- Where Has My Little Girl Gone?- Carey, Tanith
- 100 Books for Girls to Grow On – Dodson, Shireen
- The Mother-Daughter Book Club: How Ten Busy Mothers and Daughters Came Together to Talk, Laugh, and Learn Through Their Love of Reading – Dodson, Shireen
- The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It – Durham, M. Gigi
- Pink Brain, Blue Brain: How Small Differences Grow Into Troublesome Gaps — And What We Can Do About It – Eliot, Lise
- Strong, Smart & Bold: Empowering Girls for Life – Fine, Carla
- Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference –Fine, Cordelia
- Bullied: What Every Parent, Teacher, and Kid Needs to Know About Ending the Cycle of Fear – Goldman, Carrie
- How To Say It (R) To Girls: Communicating with Your Growing Daughter – Gruver, Nancy
- Growing Up with Girl Power – Hains, Rebecca
- The Princess Problem – Hains, Rebecca
- The Mother-Daughter Project: How Mothers and Daughters Can Band Together, Beat the Odds, and Thrive Through Adolescence – Hamkins, SuEllen & Schultz, Renee
- Princess Recovery: A How-to Guide to Raising Strong, Empowered Girls Who Can Create Their Own Happily Ever Afters – Hartstein, Jennifer
- Book by Book: The Complete Guide to Creating Mother-Daughter Book Clubs – Hudson, Cindy
- Just Between Us: A No-Stress, No-Rules Journal for Girls and Their Moms – Jacobs, Meredith
- The Gender Trap – Kane, Emily
- DEADLY PERSUASION: Why Women And Girls Must Fight The Addictive Power Of Advertising – Kilbourne, Jean
- Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide – Kristof, Nicholas & WuDunn, Sheryl
- Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers’ Schemes – Lamb, Sharon & Mikel Brown, Lyn
- So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids – Levin, Diane & Kilbourne, Jean
- The Case For Make Believe: Saving Play in a Commercialized World – Linn, Susan
- Consuming Kids: Protecting Our Children from the Onslaught of Marketing & Advertising – Linn, Susan
- Once upon a Heroine: 450 Books for Girls to Love many
- Great Books for Girls: More Than 600 Books to Inspire Today’s Girls and Tomorrow’s Women – Odean, Kathleen
- Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture – Orenstein, Peggy
- Girls & Sex – Orenstein, Peggy
- Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America – Paoletti, Jo B.
- Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls – Pipher, Mary & Ross, Ruth
- Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture – Schor, Juliet
- Good Girls Don’t Get Fat: How Weight Obsession Is Messing Up Our Girls and How We Can Help Them Thrive Despite It – Silverman, Robyn
- Odd Girl Out, Revised and Updated: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls – Simmons, Rachel
- The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence – Simmons, Rachel
- Off the Beaten Page – Smith, Terri Peterson
- The Body Image Survival Guide for Parents: Helping Toddlers, Tweens, and Teens Thrive – Warhaft – Nadler, Marci
- Queen Bees and Wannabees – Wiseman, Rosalind
- The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women – Wolf, Naomi
Websites & Blogs
- About-Face
- Adios Barbie
- Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls
- Be Free Zone
- Beauty Redefined
- Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
- Center on Media and Child Health
- Common Sense Media
- Day of the Girl
- Dr. Dae Sheridan
- Dr. Jennifer Shewmaker’s Operation Transformation
- Dr. Robyn Silverman
- Fit vs. Fiction
- Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
- Girls for a Change
- Girls Leadership Institute
- Girls on the Run
- Girls, Inc.
- Go! Go! Sports Girls
- Hardy Girls, Healthy Women
- Heroic Girls
- In This Together Media
- Man vs. Pink
- Marketing, Media and Childhood
- Media Education Foundation
- Miss Representation
- National Coalition of Girls’ Schools
- New Moon Girls
- Peggy Orenstein
- Pink Stinks
- Powered By Girl
- Princess Free Zone
- Rachel Simmons
- Rebecca Hains
- Reel Girl
- Rookie Magazine
- Scarleteen
- Shaping Youth
- SheHeroes
- SPARK Summit
- Strong Women, Strong Girls
- The Illusionists