(More Than) Grrrl Power! Girls Studies at UCF

Eating Disorders are a huge part in our society today. I was 17 years old when I decided to stop eating as much and exercise like crazy. I had just got into remission from cancer ( Hodgkins-Lymphoma). My boyfriend dumped me right after I went into remission. He had started dating me after I went into remission the first time my juniro year in highschool when I was 16years old. He was sweet, kind, and gentle. We had an amazing few months together as normal kids before I relapsed. It must of been very hard for him. He saw his cute girlfriend go from normal to bald, pale, and sick. He stayed with me the whole time I was sick. He motivated me to get better and stay alive! I still believe to this day that he did care about me a great deal, but he did his part and it was his time to move on with is life. I became very depressed. Eventhough, I had won the battle over my life I felt so empty without him. It is sad to admit this, but I just stopped eating. If i did eat I would consume veggies a...

I believe I'm going to enjoy this course. I have been around long enough to see a good amount of gender discrimination. I am almost fifty years old, when i was a young woman growing up females were placed into three categories. Older females ages forty and above would be referred to as woman, females between twenty one years and forty was called young ladies and under twenty one were called girls. In Women Lives page five, ''Myth 1: Feminism Is Ideological,'' i was very amazed by the feminist discriminatory wages of seventy seven cents for women to every one dollar paid to men workers. History has shown us that before ' women suffrage' if an educated woman and an uneducated man applied for a job, the man would have the advantage over the woman. It should be also noted that it didn't matter if the woman had experience or not. Statistics printed in the article entitled ' Milestones in U.S. History: Institutionalizing and Challenging Social In Eq...

Hello Summer Girls Studies' students! You should have received your invitation via knights mail already. Once you accept the invitation and become an author, you should familiarize yourself with the Blogger interface (unless you already know it), add an avatar/image to your name, and get started! Let me know if you have any questions about the blog. Guidelines are listed on the syllabus. Enjoy!! Looking forward to seeing how you use the blog space. <3 Leandra