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Studies the origins of the female frailty myth and explains why it has a damaging effect on women's health, social status, and physical safety.

As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and a mutinous crew.

Amanda, an eight-year-old girl, dreams of being the President of the United States.

Santa's resourceful wife delivers the presents on Christmas Eve when he and the reindeer become ill.

A zany Texas couple, Shirley and Claude, grow up and meet out in the gold mining hills of Colorado.

Miranda's three children thoroughly enjoy their huge, overdressed babysitter/cleaning woman who is actually their father in disguise, and they dread the day when their mother discovers Madame Doubtfire is really her exhusband.

When Michelle starts sixth grade at the local junior high school, she's elated to have a chance to play basketball on the boys' team until she finds out that the boys don't want girls on their team.

Papa Bear is so intent on making Brother Bear into a baseball star that he does not even notice how well Sister Bear plays.

Thirteen-year-old Maisie joins her school's formerly all-male wrestling team and tries to last through the season, despite opposition from other students, her best friend, and her own teammates.