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...ought not, though, to allow ourselves to be trapped in perpetual girlhood because of a poverty of language. After all, some of the aptest sociological terms in our language—“WASP,” say, or “Yuppie”—are of relatively recent coinage. We may not yet feel comfortable calling ourselves women—but we need not call ourselves girls by default. We might, for instance, begin refer to ourselves as “dolls”—a term both more precisely equivalent...
...authors advancing that gender stereotyping starts very early with the traditional pink for girls and blue for boys. Until the twentieth century the authors argue that portraits of children from infancy all the way to age five were basically indistinguishable by sex. Peering into stereotypes that start in girlhood, the authors discuss favorites such as the “daddy’s girl”—a manifestation of maternal jealousy coupled with an inner drive fueled by a father’s support—and the “tomboy...
KATY LEDERER. Lederer, an American poet well known for her collection Winter Sex, attempts prose in her memoir Poker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers. The book brings the world of professional gambling to life, offering a perceptive account of growing up as well as gambling. Lederer’s childhood includes an English professor father, a mother hooked on crossword puzzles, solitaire, and scotch and two older siblings who rob their mother’s purse. All gamblers and all fiercely competitive, the family becomes split after the kids go to college and the parents divorce...
...prefer the personal to the political. She will have 27 for Christmas at Camp David, where, to the relief of her family, she will not be cooking (she loves to read cookbooks, not follow them). Before wrapping it for Jenna, Mrs. Bush hastily read Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered, by Ruth Kluger, about "an interesting mother-daughter relationship. They're all interesting," she says, adding that the twins like to comment on her appearance ("Mom, your hair moves as a unit!"). She has hinted that she might write a book about Barney the Scottish terrier if she could...
...gives a starred review to "Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered" by professor emerita at UC-Irvine Ruth Kluger (Feminist; November). "Calmly, and chillingly, relating the everyday events of her youth - Aryan students making colored paper swastikas and then asking Jewish students to judge them...Already compared by European critics to the work of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, this is an important addition to Jewish, Holocaust and women?s studies. FORECAST: This is a standout in the crowded field of Holocaust memoirs and should have strong sales...