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Little women [videorecording] / by Bohen, Ian,actor.; Grabeel, Lucas,1984-actor.; Nelson, Maclain,film producer.; Niederpruem, Clare,film director,screenwriter.; Shimek, Kristi,film producer,screenwriter.; Shimek, Stephen,film producer.; Stone, Melanie,actor.; Thompson, Lea,1961-actor.; Wulf, David,film producer.; Main Dog (Firm),production company.; Pinnacle Peak (Firm),presenter.; Universal Pictures Home Entertainment (Firm),publisher.;
Lea Thompson, Ian Bohen, Lucas Grabeel, Melanie Stone, Sarah Davenport, Taylor Murphy, Bart Johnson, Allie Jennings, Elise Jones, Aimee Lynne Johnson.A modern retelling of Louisa May Alcott's novel. The story details to the passage from childhood to womanhood of Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy who are all sisters. Despite hard times, they cling to optimism. As they mature they face blossoming ambitions and relationships, as well as tragedy, while maintaining their unbreakable bond as sisters.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; for some thematic elements and teen drinking.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1, 2.0 DVS.
Subjects: Fiction films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for people with visual disabilities.; Families; Man-woman relationships; Female friendship; Sisters;
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Brown girls : a novel / by Andreades, Daphne Palasi,author.;
"This remarkable, deeply moving story brings you deep into the hearts and souls of a tight-knit group of friends--girls growing up in Queens, the polyglot borough of New York, where the streets sprawl for miles and echo with voices from all over the world, and the scent of bubbling oil, chopped garlic, and grilled meats waft through open windows as night comes to the neighborhood. Here Nadira, Mae, Trish, and Aisha become friends for life--or so they vow. Together they learn to survive all that the street throws at them--schoolyard bullies, clueless teachers, and the leering gaze of men who trail behind them wherever they walk. Exuberant and wild, they are daughters of immigrants from different diasporas, but in Queens their backgrounds blur and blend: they sing Mariah Carey at the tops of their lungs, pine for boyfriends who pay them no mind--and break the hearts of those who do--all while balancing the cultures they came from and the one they find themselves in. In small brick houses, their fathers snore on armchairs after long shifts, while mothers command them to be dutiful daughters, obedient young women. But as the years go by, and their own adulthood nears, choices must be made about their futures. Cracks and fissures form as some find themselves drawn to the allure of other skylines, beckoned by lovers and jobs foreign to what they knew back home. Some of the girls become wives and mothers to a new generation of brown girls; while others embark on a migration baffling to the generation before them, journeying back to the countries their parents fled for the 'better life' in America"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Female friendship; Immigrants;

Bitch : on the female of the species / by Cooke, Lucy,1970-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."It's a tale as old as time: the philandering man wants to chase sex with whomever, wherever, and at all costs-and to avoid supporting his offspring at all costs, too-while leaving a long-suffering wife to clean up his mess. You can find the idea in comedians' routines, inane self-help books, and any number of movies, novels, and television shows. It almost all comes from evolutionary biology and psychology, and the tale boils down to this: Females are naturally submissive, passive, and maternal, while males are necessarily dominant, competitive, and promiscuous. And as Lucy Cooke shows in Bitch, it's almost completely wrong. In its place, Cooke offers a new vision of the female sex: depending on which one you choose, you can find females that are inherently as promiscuous, competitive, strategically cooperative, ardent, aggressive, dominant, dynamic, complex and variable as evolutionary psychology's stereotypical male. So how did the idea of the passive female get so entrenched? Tracing biology from Darwin to today, Cooke shows how the men behind breakthrough theories in evolution have infused their ideas with a massive dose of societal sexism. Cooke surfs the work of two generations of feminist evolutionary biologists, showing how they've pushed back against the blinkered views of evolution's founding fathers to reveal the true diversity of nature. She meets with pioneering scientists--Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Jeanne Altmann, Mary-Jane West-Eberhard, Patricia Gowaty and more--following their work around the globe. From the dominant female lemurs of Madagascar to same-sex female albatross couples in Hawaii to female killer whale elders in the Salish sea, Cooke takes us on a journey through a side of nature that's much less binary, less heterosexual, and less sexist than we have been led to expect. Fierce, funny, and revolutionary, Bitch is a scientific manifesto that shows us an entirely new perspective on what it means to be a female animal, with serious implications for all of us today"--
Subjects: Females; Psychology, Comparative.; Sexual behavior in animals.; Sexual dimorphism (Animals); Social behavior in animals.; Women.; Women;

The bonobo sisterhood : revolution through female alliance / by Rosenfeld, Diane L.,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Gender violence expert and law professor Diane L. Rosenfeld pulls from the natural world, specifically bonobo society, to present a roadmap for ending gendered violence through female allyship"--
Subjects: Bonobo; Women; Women; Women;

A million little things / by Mallery, Susan,author.;
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Female friendship; Life change events; Man-woman relationships;

The summer of songbirds : a novel / by Harvey, Kristy Woodson,author.;
"Four women come together to save the summer camp that changed their lives and rediscover themselves in the process"--
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Camps; Female friendship; Self-actualization (Psychology) in women;

The all-girl filling station's last reunion : a novel / by Flagg, Fannie.;
"Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion is a fun-loving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years. Like Fannie Flagg's classic Fried Green Tomatoes, this is a riveting, fun story of two families, set in present day America and during World War II, filled to the brim with Flagg's trademark funny voice and storytelling magic"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Historical fiction.; Family secrets; Female friendship; Service stations; Women;

Stealing : a novel / by Verble, Margaret,author.;
"Since her mother's death, Kit Crockett has lived alone with her grief-stricken father, spending lonely days far out in the country tending the garden, fishing in a local stream, and reading Nancy Drew mysteries from the library bookmobile. One day when Kit discovers a mysterious and beautiful woman has moved in just down the road, she is intrigued. Kit and her new neighbor Bella become fast friends. Both outsiders, they take comfort in each other's company. But malice lurks near their quiet bayou and Kit suddenly finds herself at the center of tragic, fatal crime"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Female friendship; Indigenous children; Cherokee; Residential schools;

The queen : a novel / by Cutter, Nick,author.;
On a sunny morning in June, Margaret Carpenter wakes up to find a new iPhone on her doorstep. She switches it on to find a text from her best friend, Charity Atwater. The problem is, Charity's been missing for over a month. Most people in town--even the police--think she's dead. Margaret and Charity have been lifelong friends. They share everything, know the most intimate details about one another ... except for the destructive secret hidden from them both. A secret that will trigger a chain of events ending in tragedy, bloodshed, and death. And now Charity wants Margaret to know her story--the real story. In a narrative that takes place over one feverish day, Margaret follows a series of increasingly disquieting breadcrumbs as she forges deeper into the mystery of her best friend--a person she never truly knew at all.
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Novels.; Best friends; Female friendship; Missing persons; Secrecy;

Girlfriends. [videorecording] / by Head, Anthony Stewart,1954-actor.; Leclerc, Dominic,television director.; Logan, Phyllis,actor.; Mellor, Kay,television director.; Richardson, Miranda,actor.; Wanamaker, Zoë,1949-actor.; Acorn Media (Firm),publisher.;
Phyllis Logan, Miranda Richardson, Zoe Wanamaker, Anthony Head.Three women of a certain age are juggling the challenges of modern life when a tragedy exposes secrets that put their friendship to the test.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Television programs.; Female friendship; Man-woman relationships; Middle-aged women;
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