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Right? to Survival in Hostile Settings > How Many Steps to the Moon > Feminists: Who Are They? > Lift Your Head Up and Look Around > Princess Kevin > Someday My Prince Will Come… Or Not > Rosa the Bold > Memoirs of a Unicorn > Impostor Symdrome > No Means No! Fighting > A Dream of Freedom > Who Am I? What Am I? > P.O.V. - Point of View > The Triangle and the Hexagon: Sexual Harassment > Papa’s Partner > Golden Girl > Bruises Reflections on Black Identity > Calamity Jean > Leon of a Thousand Questions > Georges, the World, and Me > Her Name Was Ab Stenson > Capital as Genus: > Underwear Day / I’m Wearing Panties > Super Daddy! How Families Reproduce Inequalities > The True Story of Julie, > Little Dancers: The Explosive Dance-Off! > Sociology of Gender Who Had a Boy’s Shadow > GOAL! An Epic Match > The Rules of the Game > All of Us! > My Father’s Mask > Transitions > Yoohoo, Prince Charming? > Mr. Butterfly Literature & > Let’s End with Sexism! > Ten Women Who Changed the World > Teaming Up Is Taking Turns: A Hen Tale > Clit Revolution: A Manual for Feminist Activism > Pioneers > Teaming up Is Tolerance: A Hen Tale Fiction P 49 - 60 > Gravidanza: Feminology II > Equal Rights for Boys and Girls? > A Declaration of the Rights of Girls > The Sexual Workload Good Idea! > In Case of Siege > 77 - Seine et Marne > Right Type > Soul of a Witch > Awesome Adele > We Are Family > Mercy, Mary, Patty > Not Like All the Other Women > No One Is Born Submissive, in the Land of Zanytales > Last of the Cowboys > Conception and Other > The Little Girl on the Iceberg They Become That Way > Twiggy > Salome and the women who spoke out: Misdemeanors > The Witch Complex > Bodies in Abstinence > 40 Incredible Women finding your place > Activistas > Girl > Women and Literature, A Cultural History > Polka’s Huge Arms > Salome and the women who spoke out: > Dead-End Voices > Choosing What They See > Unconditional Equality > Singing Anna standing up for yourself > The Body Is a Mirage > My Dearest Sisters > When the Brain Becomes Male > Hector, the Astounding Strongman > Curiosa, Chattie, and Flirtitia > Dominique > The Unseen Hordes > Turning Points > Countless Suns > With Bastien > A History of Feminism > With Bare Hands > Little Table, Set Yourself! from Ancient Greece to the Present Era > Slutty Red Lips > Odd Couplings > History of Sexualities Comic Books & > Right After Love > The Unfaithful > Love’s Pitfalls: A History of Breaking Up > Too Much Love > World History of Feminism P 28 - 39 > Simone de Beauvoir Graphic > It’s My Body! > Women in Science > Virgin > I’d Never Have Made It This Far If… > Camel Joe > Gisèle and Béatrice > Sisters in Arms: Women and Political Violence > AMA: Breath of a Woman > Crocodiles Illustrated > Words and Women > ELZA - Whenever, Cupid! > Feminism in Seven Quotes and Slogans > Rebels > Evil Witches > Giant P 79 - 82 > The True History of Women > Baby 2000 > Emma G. Wildford Non-Fiction > The Tyranny of Gender > Rose Season > Philippina Lomar’s Thrilling Cases > Women of the World, Unite! > Troublemakers > Western Privilege > Skin of a Man > Anuki > Make Way for Women! > The Girl Who Said “Fuck It!” > Just Men > I Just Had to Tell You > Why Aren’t Men and Women Equal Yet? > Kama Sutra > Chic! > No One’s Born a Woman, > Crocodiles Are Everywhere > Miss Charity > You Aren’t Born a Feminist, You Become One > My Name Is Inna: A Ukrainian Childhood > Barriers You Become One > Touché! A SELECTION OF FRENCH TITLES GENDER, SEXISM & STEREOTYPES Comic Books & Graphic Novels Young Adult Literature & Fiction Children’s Books Essays & Humanities Illustrated Non-Fiction ABC Melody Glénat Mission Dragon - Princesse en détresse Princesse Kevin MISSION: PRINCESS PRINCESS KEVIN IN DISTRESS... RIGHT? Kevin is a princess. Deal with it! Kevin is a princess. For the school’s masked ball, his sis- When a princess disappears, a dragon and a fairy team ter has lent him her dress and high heels, and his mom up to save her. But did she really need saving at all? her makeup. Now he really looks like a princess! And Doug the dragon is flying along, daydreaming, when he princesses look so beautiful that surely it must be fun to crashes headfirst into Princess Lucille’s grumpy fairy be one. Or is it? A funny, lighthearted picture book about godmother. No time to argue, though: a princess needs the joys and sorrows of being what you’ve always wanted saving! She was kidnapped by a knight, the fairy god- to be – or at least getting a chance to try it out first. mother claims. The next thing poor Doug knows, he’s Juliette Valléry, being dragged off on an adventure. The thing is, Doug 9782344026700 / 2018 / 32 pages / 11,00 € can’t stand knights! And the would-be rescuers might Michaël Escoffier, Anna Aparicio Catala have misread the whole situation... Roland Garrigue 9782368362181 / 2020 (forthcoming) Rights sold 48 pages / 13,50 € English (World), Spanish (World), Catalan, Chinese (Traditional), Italian, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Brazil) FIND OUT MORE > 5 international auctions after Bologna 2019 Laurie Jesson [email protected] Étienne Bonnin [email protected] 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 A SELECTION OF FRENCH TITLES GENDER, SEXISM & STEREOTYPES Comic Books & Graphic Novels Young Adult Literature & Fiction Children’s Books Essays & Humanities Illustrated Non-Fiction Actes Sud Junior Hélium Non c’est non ! Contre calamity jeanne le harcèlement sexuel NO MEANS NO! CALAMITY JEAN A book about learning to accept yourself and other FIGHTING SEXUAL people just the way they are, for readers who’ve had their fill of “perfect little girls”! HARASSMENT Calamity Jean isn’t like other little girls. She hates pink, but climbing trees and playing Bigfoot? That’s her jam! A book of resources to help teens better understand And when she has to get all dolled up, she just pulls on one of the great issues of our era. a pair of cowboy boots underneath her pretty dress! But The issues of sexual harassment and sexual violence are today is her birthday, and for her new friend Lily-Rose, at the center of a heated debate as our society comes who’s dressed up like a fairy, she’s going to outdo herself.