From "Bottoms" and "Yellowjackets" to "Polite Society" and beyond, teen girls are exercising their angry agency

How is it that women a few years apart in age can be light years away from each other in their attitudes toward sex?

A new book helps girls realize their rock-star fantasies.

When a marketing company builds a Web community to observe the elusive hipster teen, is it girl empowerment or exploitation?

In time for the holiday shopping crunch, Salon recommends four fantastic kids books that will delight parents, too.

"Be a hero" vs. "I need a hero" — comics are still sending boys and girls different messages

You can love without boundaries, right or wrong, girl or boy. I tell my story for Gwen Araujo, who no longer can

I felt happy rather than traumatized when I was told that my breasts were beginning to develop.

Kid makeover chain Club Libby Lu dresses girls like rocks stars, teaches them to work a catwalk.

Perhaps I could learn a thing or two about women from Matthew McConaughey. Nah.

In today's young adult novels, girls become women via consumption.

Young women from Africa and Eastern Europe are lured to Italy with the promise of good jobs and a new life. But when they get there they are beaten, raped and forced into prostitution.

Despite being an advocate for women's sexual power, I ended up on TV wagging my finger over "raunch" culture