An account of how culture, media, and marketers influence how girls dress as well as their developing senses of identity and esteem counsels parents on how to talk to their daughters in order to help them build resilience against negative stereotypes andmessages.

A psychological analysis of young female aggression notes the pervasiveness of negative women stereotypes in fairy tales and pop culture, examining the ways in which society reinforces and nurtures mean behavior in girls through misogynistic practices, the establishment of unrealistic expectations, and the oppression of emotional expression. Reprint.

Product Description: This issue of Women's Studies Quarterly lays some of the groundwork for identifying issues key to the development of a feminist precollegiate education for girls and sheds a fresh light on persistent educational concerns of adult women.

Based on a year's worth of conversations with white, middle- and working-class junior and senior high-school girls, a celebratory look at their spirit of protest traces how they accept and use some facets of femininity and adamantly refuse others. UP.

Product Description: On the way to womanhood, what does a girl give up? For five years, Lyn Mikel Brown and Carol Gilligan, asking this question, listened to one hundred girls who were negotiating the rough terrain of adolescence. This book invites us to listen, too, and to hear in these girls' voices what is rarely spoken, often ignored, and generally misunderstood: how the passage out of girlhood is a journey into silence, disconnection, and dissembling, a troubled crossing that our culture has plotted with dead ends and detours...read more