Books about puberty in girls

关于女孩青春期的书

When author Naama Bloom watched her hilarious "Camp Gyno" video, about a tween who is the first girl at her summer camp to get a period, go viral in 2013, she knew she was on to something.

2013年，作家娜玛·布鲁姆(Naama Bloom)观看了她的搞笑视频《吉诺夏令营》(Camp Gyno)，视频讲述的是一个孩子是夏令营里第一个来月经的女孩，这段视频在网上疯传，她知道自己说到点子上了。

She received thousands of emails from girls and older women, and she heard from moms who said that the video led to hourlong conversations with their daughters. Some girls were even watching the video, which has now been viewed more than 12 million times on YouTube, at slumber parties.

她收到了数千封来自女孩和年长女性的电子邮件，她收到了妈妈们的来信，她们说视频导致了与女儿长达一小时的对话。一些女孩甚至在睡衣派对上观看了这段视频，这段视频在YouTube上已经被观看了超过1200万次。

The sequel "Full Moon Party," about a girl who fakes getting her period and then faces the consequences when her mom throws a "first moon party" in her honor, has been viewed more than 42 million times.

《月圆之夜》的续集，讲述的是一个女孩假装来了月经，然后她的妈妈为她举办了“第一次月圆之夜”，以此来纪念她，该片的点击量已超过4200万次。

The videos were sparking a "mini-revolution" among young girls, said Bloom, founder of HelloFlo, which started as a subscription service offering monthly packages of tampons and pads and has evolved into a media company providing content on health and feminism. "I just kept thinking to myself, 'how is it that a two-minute video is doing this?' "

HelloFlo的创始人布鲁姆说，这些视频在年轻女孩中引发了一场“迷你革命”。该公司最初是一家订阅服务，每月提供卫生棉条和卫生巾的套餐，现在已经发展成为一家提供健康和女权主义内容的媒体公司。“我一直在想，‘一段两分钟的视频怎么能做到这一点?’”

It was certainly an unusual way to approach conversations about puberty, but the reaction proved to Bloom that the time was right to change the way we talk to girls about it.

这当然是一种不寻常的方式来对待青春期的对话，但这种反应向布鲁姆证明了，现在是时候改变我们和女孩谈论青春期的方式了。

And so she decided to write a book, "The Guide, Period." out this week in the United States, aimed at girls who are close to or are going through puberty or have gone through it. It's a book, she says, that is designed to empower women during a time when too often young women feel uncomfortable, ashamed and embarrassed, and it's a book I most definitely will be giving to my daughters.

因此，她决定写一本书，《青春期指南》，本周在美国出版，目标读者是那些接近青春期、即将进入青春期或已经进入青春期的女孩。她说，这本书的目的是在年轻女性经常感到不舒服、羞耻和尴尬的时候赋予她们力量，我肯定会把这本书送给我的女儿们。

"My dream is that girls feel very confident in their bodies and feel like they love who they are and how they look and what their body does," said Bloom, who has an 8-year-old daughter and 6-year-old son. "I just want to have these open conversations so that they know that there's nothing shameful about their body."

她说：“我的梦想是女孩们对她们的身体感到非常自信，她们喜欢自己，她们的长相和她们的身体发生的事。”布鲁姆有一个8岁的女儿和6岁的儿子。“我只想公开进行这些对话，让她们知道她们的身体没有什么可耻的。”

One way she tries to do that is provide something you don't typically see in puberty books: cultural and historical context on such topics as breast size, body type and pubic hair.

她试图做到这一点的一种方式是提供一些你在青春期书籍中通常看不到的东西：关于乳房大小、体型和阴毛等主题的文化和历史背景。

'It's a very big moment in time'

“这是一个非常重要的时刻”

There are certainly other puberty books available for girls. American Girl's "The Care & Keeping of You 1" (for younger girls) and "The Care & Keeping of You 2" (for older girls) are very popular. But what Bloom wanted to do was delve into what's behind the emotional changes that are going on during puberty, which aren't often discussed.

当然，还有其他适合女孩阅读的青春期书籍。美国女孩的"The Care & Keeping of You 1"(针对年轻女孩)和"The Care & Keeping of You 2"(针对年长女孩)很受欢迎。但是布鲁姆想要做的是深入探究在青春期发生的情感变化背后的原因，而这些变化很少被讨论。