The authors present an eye-opening look at how culture, media, and marketers dictate what girls should look like, enjoy, become, and consume--and what parents can do about it.
In Girlfighting, psychologist and educator Lyn Mikel Brown scrutinizes the way our culture nurtures and reinforces competition, cliques, backstabbing, and general meanness among girls. She traces the changes in girls' thoughts, actions, and feelings from childhood into young adulthood, providing the developmental understanding and theoretical ...
On the way to womanhood, what does a girl give up? For five years, Lyn Mikel Brown and Carol Gilligan, with this question in mind, listened to 100 girls who were negotiating the rough terrain of adolescence. This book invites the reader to listen, too, to hear in these girls' voices what is rarely spoken, often ignored, and generally misunderstood ...
A groundbreaking work offering major new insights into girls' development and women's psychology. Just as important, this book provides women with the means of meeting girls at the critical crossroads of adolescence, of harkening to the voices of girlhood and sustaining their self-affirming notes.
Lyn Mikel Brown studies two groups of young women--one from a comfortable community, the other from a working-class town--to see if prevailing notions of conformity and low self-esteem ring true.
Lyn Mikel Brown studies two groups of young women--one from a comfortable community, the other from a working-class town--to see if prevailing notions of conformity and low self-esteem ring true.
James Mitchell presents a series of biographical sketches and interviews of more than thirty Maine women who have all carved out meaningful careers for themselves. The women shared their stories and dreams with Mitchell to celebrate their and other women's accomplishments. Although their stories and fields of endeavor -- ranging from commercial ...
Boys are besieged by images in the media that encourage slacking over studying, competition over teamwork. The authors give parents advice on how to talk with their sons about these troubling images and provide them with tools to help their sons resist these messages.
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