A Girl's Guide to Taking Over the World

A Girl's Guide to Taking Over The World: Writings From The Girl Zine Revolution, Karen Green and Tristan Taormino (ed.), St. Martin's Griffin, 1997

This is another book looking at the "zine revolution," recently discovered by the mainstream media. Green and Taormino concentrate less on the graphics and more on the writing; as well they should, because this bok is full of honest, forthright, even painful, writing by girls and young women from all social classes and all parts of the country. To quote from one zine called Girl Power,"Sometimes paper is the only thing that will listen to you."

Included are excerpts from over 100 different zines (with addresses in the back of the book) on subjects from friends to body image to politics to parents and family to gossip to sex.

Even if this was packaged as an average anthology of girl writing, with all zine references removed, it would still be highly recommended; the writing is that good. It's especially recommended for any girl or young woman who thinks that nobody can understand what she's thinking or felling; someone in this book has been there.