Bell, Ruth and other co-authors of ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves’.
Changing Bodies
,
Changing Lives
. New York and Toronto: Random House, Inc., 1980.
An excellent book for teenagers on the topics of sex and different relationships (friendships, intimacies, etc.). It discusses feelings teenagers typically experience during adolescence.
Birmingham, Stephen.
The Grandes Dames
. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1982.
Students can use this resource to find brief biographies of some high society women between 1870 and World War II.
Boston Women’s Health Book Collective.
Our Bodies
,
Ourselves
. 2nd edition. New York: Simon and Schuster. 1971.
Fine reading for some mature high school girls. See description in teacher’s section.
Winship, Elizabeth, Caparulo, Frank, Harlin, Vivian K. M.D.,
Masculinity and Femininity
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1978.
Textbook that covers the topics of sex roles, sex-role stereotypes, adolescence, puberty, different relationships like friendships and dating, forms of family and the human reproductive system. Written on a junior high school level.