Laura BatesLaura Bates is such a powerful and intelligent voice. GIRL UP is the book women should be reading in this current political and social climate. I am tired of people putting me in on category or another while telling me what I should and shouldn’t be doing. With this book, I feel like I have an ally. I laughed. I was a bit shocked. I decided it was okay to say “screw this”! What a fabulous book.

Unbelievably amazing. Would recommend for anyone who identifies as a girl, or anyone raising a girl. Truly life changing.

This book is a great introduction to feminism. I loved the layout and style of the book and all the illustrations, particularly the fancy dancing vulva! Nothing was particularly new to me but I've read a good few books on feminism recently and it didn't take the enjoyment out of the book. I loved the author's tone, it was serious when it needed to be but otherwise it was light and fun to read and had me laughing out loud several times. Perfect for teenagers or anyone of any age who's wanting to read up about feminism and isn't sure where to start.

I really enjoyed this book and I feel like there are some girls who could really use it. I have a hard time defining just what age group it's appropriate for, and I'd have to go with older teens or college students, who are not at all sheltered. I would have died of mortification if I had read it in my teens, but there's so much useful stuff too! The pictures to use to reply to unasked for texts! The illustrations! And yet, I feel like this is probably better stumbled across on their own, or given to girls by a slightly older friend.

The book that every young woman of today needs to feel more confident, more awesome and less alone in this messed up world. Fantastic!

I’m not the age of the target audience for this book (oh, the good ol’ days) but I have a lot of nieces that are or soon will be coming of age and I don’t give them books like this without reading it first to be sure they’re appropriate.
I’m not sure what age group would find this the most helpful. In a world of social media and internet porn, the average high schooler probably knows most of what is in here and the content is probably a little too mature for most tweens. That said, I think it would be extremely helpful for any young girl to read. Even with internet access and the answer to any question at your fingertips, there is probably a lot included here that the average teen may want to ask about but is too shy or scared to do so. There are things that we don’t usually talk about with the kids in our lives – masturbation, porn, sexism and misogyny, the concept of the patriarchy, slut-shaming and much more. It’s an unapologetic, all cards on the table guide to being a young woman in today’s world. I do not envy teenage kids in the age of social media and I’m so very glad it was not a thing when I was in high school. Not only will teenage girls find this helpful, but parental figures raising teen girls nowadays will. They face different problems than we did and this text really drives that point home. It’s an easy and approachable book that could make a huge difference in the hands of a young girl.

It would probably be about 3.5 stars. Some of the jokes were a little lame and may turn off a young person.

Thank you for accepting my request. I would really love to read this, but I see it's a protected PDF, and my preferred reading format is for Kindle. I do look forward to reading it when it's available to me. Thanks again!

This book has some merits but the fact that it can't stay on topic - i.e. what women/girls face as people who are born and remain that gender tends to dilute the entire force of the book. Also, I have no clue who this book's audience is - is adult women so they can talk to they female children or do you think this should actually be a book given to girls under the age of 18? Again - the author is all over the place. I would never give this book to my child and obviously not my students under the age of 16 with this kind of language and nonchalant view of sex. Boys and girls ARE different and there is absolutely NOTHING wrong with that - we shouldn't be teaching girls to screw everything that moves just because boys do it. That's insane. Girls process the act of sex MUCH differently than boys and to not address that fact makes this book useless as a reference for me.

Girl Up is an essential compendium of wit, wisdom, advice, and straight-talk. They should give out copies in the delivery room every time another girl enters the world. Or a boy, for that matter—they ought to be reading Girl Up too.