Books on feminism for a young girl

[GloGirl]

I posted a few months ago for suggestions on books for me read re feminism and they were eye opening. Can anyone recommend one for me to give my niece who is 10?

Thanks, I was sure if something existed but you're right, I am mainly after inspirational role models. I'll have a look at the magazine, thank you.

Didn't Sandi Toksvig write one a while ago (not read it, but remember reading about it and thinking I might get it for DD.)

Yes, Sandi Toksvig wrote a really good one called (iirc) Girls are best.

There's also a really good series of books by an author called Mille Slavidou where the hero is a girl. Amazon link

Might be worth a look.

I'd recommend Jump! magazine as well.

Have a look at A Mighty Girl recommended books, they've got hundreds www.amightygirl.com/books

Although they are US based so you may want to find the same books in the UK.

George Eliot.

I would absolutely start her on a bunch of angry, resigned, incredulous or wholeheartedly status quo approving Victorians. Thus leading her gently towards Henry James in her mid to late teens. Nothing can give her a better understanding of what the feminist movement is for than allowing her to discover through fiction what it has struggled against.

Theory can come later. Hand in hand with experience.

(Henry James and Edith Wharton of course ...)

I dunno, a diet of Henry James and Edith Wharton could put someone off reading for life. I think they should be taken sparingly.

While agreeing on the complete wonderfulness of George Eliot (and Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen etc), they are probably a bit tough even for the cleverest 10 year old. In a couple of years I'm sure she'll be enjoying them though.

Thanks all. I've liked A Mighty Girl on Facebook and today they posted about a 10 year old friendly version of Malala's life story which is pretty much perfect for what I was thinking of.

Sounds great, I just looked up the Girls Are Better just now thinking I might get a copy (though I think DD will be slightly put off by the very pink girly cover) and its suggested another title, Girls Think of Everything, which I'm going to get too http://www.amazon.co.uk/Girls-Think-Everything-Ingenious-Inventions/dp/0618195637/ref=pdsim143?ie=UTF8&refRID=0E2VDZ5X1MP3N5SQCET5&dpID=516rU-34LpL&dpSrc=sims&preST=ACUL200SR160%2C200_

I've just bought this for my 11yo niece, not feminism but good messages

www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0618195637?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

What about one by Andrea Tworkin? If she doesn't hate men now she will by the time she's finished just one chapter of her book.

"Girls Think of Everything: Stories of Ingenious Inventions by Women"

Except for stuff like cars, automobiles, engines, the computer you are using right now, the monitor you are reading this on, the idea of the internet which allows you to see what I'm typing and practically all man-made materials were pretty much made by men.

You could fill a small book if you were to list every invention by a man, but you could list all women inventions in a paragraph.

"Was hoping this would have things my daughter would be wowed by and admire. But it had cookies and scotchguard among other really munsane things."

One of the review comments. HAHAHA

"cookies and scotchguard"

chuckles

Nothing better to do than bother yourself with such trivial matters as feminism today?

I'm sure mankind could get by without cookies and scotchguard.

But try getting by without computers or auto-mobiles or engines.

Without women's inventions we would have a few inconveniences, but without men's inventions we would be living centuries in the past.

Educate yourself poyujava. It was info on Grace Hopper I wanted to link to, bit I thought the whole article might be of use.

www.biztechmagazine.com/article/2012/05/mothers-technology-10-women-who-invented-and-innovated-tech

I'm glad a woman is getting this year's Nobel prize for medicine for her work on artemisinin, drug that has saved the lives of many people with malaria resistant to previous drugs.
Malaria still kills at least 500 000 deaths per year.

Ada Lovelace, wrote the first computer program.

Cheering at Buffy's post.

A few more to add to the list:
*The circular saw (Tabitha Babbit)
*The dishwasher (Josephone Cochrane)
*Machine to manufacture modern style paper bags (Margaret Knight)
*The Apgar Score (Dr Virginia Apgar)
*The thermoelectric power generator & first solar house (Maria Telkes)
*Coffee filter system (Melitta Bentz)
*The life raft (Maria Beasley)
*The early research into sub atomic particles that led to the development of fibre optic cables, the portable fax machine, solar cells, touch tone telephones etc. (Dr Shirley Jackson)
*X-ray crystallography techniques that led to her photographs with which Watson and Crick identified the DNA double helix (Rosalind Franklin)
*Pioneer work in genomic sequencing, identifying the BRAC1 & 2 genes involved in breast & ovarian cancer, also demonstrating that humans and chimps share 99% of genes (Mary Claire King)
*The micro electrode (Ida Hyde)

I'm sure others could add more. And all in spite of a world populated by clones of our good friend poyujava and his misogynist ilk.