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- Canadian Federation of University Women
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Girl Child: A Mother's Grief
Resource Type: Article A tragic tale.
- Girlhood
Redefining the Limits Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 A collection of essays on girls. It examines girl culture, and the multi-faceted nature of girls' lived experiences. It also looks at "girl" power and the highly commercially lucrative and sexualized culture. The authors examine racism, girlhood gangs, sexuality, chatrooms, the politics of girlhood style and identity formation.The essays cover the many changing and complex aspects of girls in the 21st century.
- Girls Reduced to Being Repositories of Communal and Religious Identities in Kashmir
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 The rape and ruthless murder of an eight-year old girl in Jammu province underscores the brutal gender violence that is a consistent feature of the political thuggery that grips the subcontinent.
- Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
Resource Type: Book
- Protecting the Girl Child
Using the Law to End Child Marriage, Early and Forced Marriage and Related Human Rights Violations Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The report states that child marriage of legitimizes human rights violations and abuses of girls under the pretense of culture, honour, and religion.
- Teenage Girls Increasingly Requesting Labiaplasty to Get the Perfect Designer Vagina
Very young women are going under the knife to sculpt parts that are still growing and changing. Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Never underestimate the power of beauty myths to manufacture inadequacies where before there were none. A little over a decade ago, labiaplasty -- the partial or wholesale removal of parts of the labia minora, aka the inner vaginal lips -- was a relatively obscure plastic surgery, compared with nips, tucks and lifts to various other parts. In more recent years, the number of women opting for the surgery has grown exponentially. Now very young women -- girls still in their teens -- are requesting the procedure in numbers growing so quickly that even some practitioners are concerned.
- Tomboy
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2011 A 2011 French drama film written and directed by Céline Sciamma.
- The tragedy of being a girl in India
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 India is the "most dangerous country in the world in which to be a girl". This is stated in a controversial United Nations finding based on a range of distressing social statistics rooted in gender and caste prejudice, much of which can be traced back to 18th century colonialism and the destructive 'divide and rule' methodology employed by the British.
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