Abstract

Thinking Outside the Girl Box: Teaming up with Resilient Youth in Appalachia describes a youth development program designed to empower young women in Lincoln County, West Virginia, and explains the process of navigating collaborative ethnography as a research method. The Girls Resiliency Program (GRP) on which this book focuses was designed for young women in the hope that they might move beyond the "girl boxes""constructed by others and the context in which they lived"to write their own stories. Shelley Gaines, the director of the GRP, and other staff and board members emphasized the identifi cation of strengths, the need for young women to become engaged decision makers, and social justice activism as the means by which the young women would understand their constraints and begin to craft their own narratives.

How to Cite:

Friesen, J., (2015) “Book Review of Thinking Outside the Girl Box: Teaming Up with Resilient Youth in Appalachia”, Journal of Research in Rural Education 30(12), 1–3.

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