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'Girls are Powerful' is the title of the book, and girls are It is a selection of writings by young women aged 7 to 22 for young women about young women's lives. It is a must for everyone who wants to know what young women are thinkDivided into different categories, at home, friends and lovers, looks, at school, together it the words of a number of young women the discrimination and inequalities they face.

- From not being allowed to wear trousers cold weather to being put into care at 15 sexual intercourse, to facing bricks through "I've had so many arguments with blokes about my eye make-up. How do you tell a guy who is about as broadminded as a cold chip that it's nothing to do with him what you do to your face? They just sit there and once you've shot your mouth off efficiently (you think) they turn round and "We've been told that if we wear trousers (to school) the hems would get wet on the toilet floors.. and that they'd get sweaty. well, if all those things are true, boys "Just look at that girl who got a long sentence in a mental hospital for burning some curtains. It wasn't the curtains but the fact that she was having underage sex - they said she was in 'moral danger' but you would never get a 14 or 15 year old boy being taken in for the same reasons, unless he was homois power t at work, details in particular to school in for unlawful the window KATE WILLIAMS Wolverhampton SE YS