- Overview
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This is a gender story for adolescents who live in a world filled with hatred.
- Book Intro
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Dr. Kimggoh Yeonju, a gender advisor in Seoul, tells various gender stories to adolescents. In her new book, My First Course on Gender, she gives a simple answer to many issues such as studying, careers, love, losing weight, motherhood, and misogyny. Using various studies from classic theories to recent researches and statistics on adolescents, this book will correct readers' misunderstandings.
Dr. Kimggoh Yeonju has written this book for adolescents because they are at the critical age where they are forming their gender identities. The author helps these adolescents not forget the value of consideration and harmony in this world, which is filled with hateful words. She also helps children build healthy and positive gender identities.
- About the Author
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Kim Goh Yeon-ju
Kim Goh Yeon-ju is currently the Seoul Metropolitan Government's gender advisor. She has published Children Who Ask About the Path, Slightly Different Children, and Slightly Different Stories. Greatly interested in the lives and concerns of adolescents, Kim has actively written general books for teenagers including Girls, Run Wild, Talk and Think (co-authorship), Humanities for 21st-Century Adolescents (co-authorship), and Why Does My Mom…?. Her other works include An Intimate Enemy (co-authorship) and Mom Hurts, Too (co-authorship). Her Translations into Korean include The No-Nonsense Guide to Sexual Diversity and Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor.
