Book Report Thinking Outside the Girl Box by Linda Spatig

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Thinking Outside the Girl Box by Linda Spatig
Introduction
After several years in Lincoln County Girls’ Resiliency Program (GRP), Teresa says, "I'm smart. And sometimes I have a good attitude; sometimes I don't. I always remind people of things. I always put in my ideas." Furthermore, Teresa describes herself confidently as a teacher and a leader and messenger (Spatig & Amerikaner, 2014, 66). Thinking outside the Girl Box by Linda Spatig reveals a true narration of progress in the development of youth program in a rural area of West Virginia. The book is a revelation of the practical insight of the participative ethnographic researches that young girls show to the society. The book is an insightful challenge to the girls confined in "the boxes" of male chauvinism and oppression in the society, especially in the USA. Thinking outside the girl box is a feminist analysis that supports and appreciates women and their role when they receive love, resiliency, development, democracy, and freedom of girls in the society. The present book project henceforth gives a detailed analysis of the book Thinking Outside the Girl Box by Linda Spatig elaborating on the different themes that answer the question on the role of various institutions in elevating women to reach their potentials in life.
Review of the Literature
Empowering women in the current society gain recognition globally with the majority of the women getting full access to education, job opportunities that men dominated as well as their rights in the political arena. Thinking Outside the Girl Box gives different narrations of the achievements of GRP focusing on the design for women to move beyond the scope of “girl boxes.” Shelley as mature women in the book takes the responsibility of managing the GRP. Together with other staffs and board members, the group emphasizes on the identification of the strength of women and their bold step to engage in top decision-making processes as well as ensuring that women get social justice to develop their future (Spatig & Amerikaner, 2014).
Various episodes on the book show that the current literature review aims at elaborating other existing research works on girl's education and empowerment as well as the role of different entities, educational research policy-making bodies about the elevation of girl's education. Furthermore, the review elaborates on other evaluative research reports that devote much of their information on improvement of women in the society.
Social and Cultural Barriers to Progress in Women
Women in the society continue to succumb to the gender-based roles that are resistant to feminist critiques. For instance, leadership for a long time has a link with the masculinity with women categorized as weak. Besides, biases lead to increase in suspicion that women are not to the task of performing leadership roles, especially in the political arena. Lack of women in the high power positions continues to change the perception of ability for women to take leadership roles. Therefore, GRP initiative in West Virginia changes such negative attitude. The book Think Outside Girl Box demonstrate an aspect of transformative leadership in women as you...