Girls

A girl is a young female human, usually a child or an adolescent. When she becomes an adult, she is described as a woman. The term girl may also be used to mean a young woman, and is sometimes used as a synonym for daughter. Girl may also be a term of endearment used by an adult, usually a woman, to designate adult female friends. The treatment and status of girls in any society is usually closely related to the status of women in that culture. In cultures where women have a low societal position, girls may be unwanted by …

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AUP: Athabasca University Press · 22 November 2024 English

“Dopp looks closely at hockey myths but not solely to debunk them. Hockey on the Moon offers a conversation in the best sense. This is hockey talk that works across …

angel of the house. In the world of the novel, girls and women might be fans of hockey and moral cheerleaders


Fraser Institute · 16 November 2024 French

The Report Card on Quebec’s Secondary Schools 2024 ranks 465 public, independent, francophone and anglophone secondary schools based on provincewide test results in French, English, science and mathematics. The Report …

2017). 5 Peter Cowley et Stephen Easton, Boys, Girls, and Grades: Academic Gender Balance in British “there appears to be no compelling evidence that girls and boys should, given effective teaching and counselling 2017). 4 Peter Cowley and Stephen Easton, Boys, Girls, and Grades: Academic Gender Balance in British Report Card on Alberta’s High Schools, et Boys, Girls, and Grades : Academic Gender Balance in British on British Columbia’s Secondary Schools, Boys, Girls, and Grades: Academic Gender Balance in British


UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 12 November 2024 English

Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope met en lumière les actions entreprises par des universitaires en réponse à certains des appels à l’action de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation. …

atrocity of murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls in Canada, and examined issuesxxiv DANGLING IN experience to our younger generation. She facilitates girls’ groups with Dr. Natalie Clark, holds workshops healing and self-identity by raising up women and girls through experiential, tra- ditional crafts, sustenance special- izing in violence and trauma as well as a girls’ group facilitator for Indig- enous girls.xxxii into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG; it lasted three years) (see MMIWG, 2019;


UMP: University of Manitoba Press · 7 November 2024 English

“This book is absolutely amazing and one of the most original collections that I have read in many years. Intended for everyone who inhabits Turtle Island—Indigenous and settler alike—Manomin encourages …

tion for hulling Manomin in Vennum’s account.8 Girls go unmentioned. Most recently, Amanda Raster and


DDN: Dundurn Press · 5 November 2024 English

“A tender, beautifully written essay collection that is about so much more than parenting a child with a disability.” — Erin Pepler, author of Send Me Into The Woods AloneA …

athlete and I haven’t been raised to quit. The girls from my generation are raised to be “good,” and pressing on our shoulders. We are warriors, not little girls. I attend elementary school in the 1990s. My classmates chal- lenge my classmates to arm wrestles. The girls soon refuse, and the boys put up a fight, but I does. I do not want their cooties. “Ready to go, girls?” my friend’s mom asks. Though we’ve barely arrived you never to go on the dock. Get inside.” The girls come running. I see only the tops of their heads


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 29 October 2024 English

A collection of memories chronicling love, grief, and a life lived on and off stage Raised on a farm and educated in a prairie Bible school, Layne Coleman escapes the …

said if I volunteered, I would meet interesting girls. I must have had the look of a lost boy who needed floor wax mingled with the laughter of the four girls waving sugar bread in their hands. I missed the


DDN: Dundurn Press · 29 October 2024 English

“Honest and insightful, a testament to Japanese Canadian resilience.” — KERRI SAKAMOTO, author of Floating CityWhen the North American dream meets traditional Japanese conformity, two cultures collide. Does the past …

Grandma simply stated, “These things are not for girls.” She said I would eventually marry and become Christian education for Chinese and Japanese women, girls and children. The OHS operated a Sunday school Returning in June 1930 on the Arabia- Maru, the girls faced a short holdup during immigration. Records departed, yet there were two Japanese- speaking girls dressed in traditional kimo- no listed as Yanagihara days in detention, Taki rushed in to claim the girls and they were reunited with the family. With Shigeru


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 25 October 2024 English

Between Composers unveils the previously unpublished correspondence between Canadian composers Norma Beecroft and Harry Somers from 1959 to 1960. The letters detail the downfall of their romance, trace their artistic …

of drunks singing, yelling and even crying. Two girls, perhaps late teens, fleeing a house and the strange


UAP: University of Alberta Press · 22 October 2024 English

Stories Left in Stone explores the lives, histories, and artistic legacies of Cáceres and Extremadura. Author Troy Nahumko has lived in the old town of Cáceres, a UNESCO World Heritage …

Troy Nahumko. Used by permission.For my Canacereña girls, whose stories begin behind these stones and who


CPRC: University of Regina Press · 22 October 2024 English

A guide from bestselling author Alice Kuipers on how to write for children and young adults—from igniting an initial idea to creating a finished draft In Spark, acclaimed children’s and …

vanishing into the hot California sun beaming on the girls at Sweet Valley High, say. I was dedi- cated to


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