Girl Reviews
Our Girl Reviews showscases blogs that discuss how girls are portrayed in and impacted by books, movies, television shows, live performances, museums and exhibits, games, and products.
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Book Review: Fashion As Photograph
Junior Amber Barnes reviews a chapter of Fashion as Photograph, a book that delves into the history and visuals of the fashion world.
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Book Review: The Underground Girls of Kabul
Associate Editor Sage Daugherty reviews The Underground Girls of Kabul, a book by investigative journalist Jenny Nordberg about girls’ lives in Afghanistan.
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TV Review: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
Appropriately for Halloween, Associate Editor Sage Daugherty reviews the first episode of Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Read at your own risk.
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Museum Review: London Transport Museum
Junior Girl Emily Clarke reviews Poster Girls, an exhibition at the London Transport Museum. The exhibition is open until January 2019.
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Book Review: Girl Overboard
Associate Editor Sage Daugherty reviews Girl Overboard by Justina Chen Headley, a novel about a girl and her experiences on and off the snowboarding slopes.
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Movie Review: Lady Bird
This movie has my heart. I watched it last autumn, but decided to re-watch it now to be sure about my feelings and emotions. Well, I confess that my ideas have not changed to date. This movie is about a 17 years old pink-haired girl living in California, who is about...
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Exhibition Review: Votes for Women
Junior Girl Emily Clarke reviews the Votes for Women Exhibition at the Museum of London, and talks about her experience at the exhibit.
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Book Review: Hannah Green and her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence
Junior Girl Sophie Small reviews Michael Marshall Smith’s Hannah Green and her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence, published by Harper Collins in 2017.
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Museum Review: The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Junior Girl Libby Serra reviews the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, and talks about Gardner’s life.
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Film Review: Clueless
Junior Girl Jessica Eykel reviews cult classic film, Clueless, and talks about the twenty-year-old film’s portrayals of girlhood.
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Teen Dramas: Dirty Dancing
Teen movies are not a modern idea; they have been around for decades. As with any genre of film the best era is always subjective. However, people tend to choose the decade when they were a teenager as the best,the characters being most relatable. Today, with...
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Book Review: ‘American Street’ is the Next Great American Novel
Program Developer Tiffany Rhoades reviews American Street by Ibi Zoboi, calling it a “must read,” and one of the next great American novels.
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Film Review: All About Eve
Junior Girl Sophie Small reviews the classic film All About Eve and talks about the treatment of girls and women in the media, in the 1950s and in 2018.
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Book Review: Forgotten Country
Associate Editor Sage Daugherty reviews Forgotten Country by Catherine Chung, a novel that delves into sibling relationships and the bonds between sisters.
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Teen Dramas: John Hughes Part 2 – The Girls of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off was written by John Hughes and released in 1986. The movie is set in Chicago and is often referred to as a love letter to the city by Hughes. It follows the titular character as he skips school. He fakes an illness in order to have some fun in...
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Girls at the Georgian House in Edinburgh, Scotland
Junior Girl Monique Brough talks about her experience at the Georgian House, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and what girls’ lives might have been like.
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Book Review: A Murder for Her Majesty
Associate Editor Sage Daugherty reviews one of her favorite childhood books, A Murder for Her Majesty by Beth Hilgartner and talks about its heroine’s journey in Elizabethan England.
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Teen Dramas: John Hughes, Part 1 – The Problem with Sixteen Candles
The king of teen movies in the 1980s is without question John Hughes. Between 1984 and 1987 he released six movies: Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Some Kind of Wonderful. These are all movies still...
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Film Review: Pan’s Labyrinth
Junior Girl Lydia Henning reviews Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth and specifically talks about the girl protagonist in the film, Ofelia.
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Teen Dramas: Riverdale: Chapter Three – Body Double
The TV show Riverdale debuted in 2017, and is based on characters from Archie Comics. The show has a mystery element to it with the murder of Jason Blossom in the first episode. While the characters try to figure out who is responsible they also have their own issues...
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