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"By interrogating the personal and emotional toll of being female, the essays in The Perils of Girlhood serve as a reckoning for women and girls while honoring the female experience"-- Provided by publisher. "Like many girls growing up in the eighties and nineties, Melissa Fraterrigo leaned on popular culture to transition from childhood to adolescence and beyond. Judy Blume told stories about girls embracing their imperfections; Madonna encouraged...