"This film provides a nuanced depiction of puberty that is a must see for anyone working in education, social work, or allied fields. I cannot wait to show this film to my students-- it will be a powerful teaching tool. I wish it had been there for me."
–Karra Bikson, Ph.D, Assistant Professor, NYU's Silver School of Social Work

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Appropriate for:
Middle School•High School•College/University

73 minutes • DVD • Closed Captioned

REVIEWS  

"Fascinating and engrossing. I'd recommend it for a variety of courses in psychology, education, sociology, and anthropology at the college level."
Larraine M. Glidden, Ph.D., Visiting Professor, Center on Health and Education, Georgetown University

"It's heartbreaking to see that girls who are young enough to be my own children aren't facing, a generation later, a world any more accommodating to their needs as human beings as the one I grew up in. But it's also strangely stirring in a way, too. Not that I would wish a rocky adolescence on anyone, of course. It's just that, in a culture that values the stories of boys and men more than those of girls and women, here are the voices of girls and women in all their complicated and human glory."
MaryAnn Johanson
The Flick Filosopher blog

"What I found most inspiring about this documentary was how resilient each girl turned out to be. A must-see for gender studies, psychology, or education curricula. Every college library should own this DVD."
Melanie Bishop, Associate Professor, Women's Studies, Prescott College, AZ

AWARDS / SCREENINGS

• Tribeca Film Festival
  
• SILVERDOCS AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival
  
• The Association for Women in Psychology Annual Conference
  
• Portland Women's Film Festival
  
• Taiwan International Children's TV & Film Festival
  
• Bay Area Video Coalition Videomaker's Award