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Author Brown, Lyn Mikel, 1956-

Title Girlfighting : Betrayal and Rejection among Girls.

Imprint New York : NYU Press, 2003.
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Description 1 online resource (272 pages)
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Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction: Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do?; 1 Reading the Culture of Girlfighting; 2 Good Girls and Real Boys: Preparing the Ground in Early Childhood; 3 Playing It Like a Girl: Later Childhood and Preadolescence; 4 Dancing through the Minefield: The Middle School Years; 5 Patrolling the Borders: High School; 6 From Girlfighting to Sisterhood; 7 This Book Is an Action; Appendix; Notes; References; Index; About the Author.
Summary For some time, reality TV, talk shows, soap-operas, and sitcoms have turned their spotlights on women and girls who thrive on competition and nastiness. Few fairytales lack the evil stepmother, wicked witch, or jealous sister. Even cartoons feature mean and sassy girls who only become sweet and innocent when adults appear. And recently, popular books and magazines have turned their gaze away from ways of positively influencing girls' independence and self-esteem and towards the topic of girls' meanness to other girls. What does this say about the way our culture views girlhood? How much do the.
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Subject Teenage girls -- Psychology.
Interpersonal conflict in adolescence.
Anger in adolescence.
Aggressiveness in adolescence.
Girls -- Psychology.
Interpersonal conflict in children.
Anger in children.
Aggressiveness in children.
Women -- Socialization.
Female friendship.
Adolescentes -- Psychologie.
Conflit interpersonnel chez l'adolescent.
Colère chez l'adolescent.
Agressivité chez l'adolescent.
Filles -- Psychologie.
Conflit interpersonnel chez l'enfant.
Colère chez l'enfant.
Agressivité chez l'enfant.
Femmes -- Socialisation.
Amitié féminine.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Aggressiveness in adolescence
Aggressiveness in children
Anger in adolescence
Anger in children
Female friendship
Girls -- Psychology
Interpersonal conflict in adolescence
Interpersonal conflict in children
Teenage girls -- Psychology
Women -- Socialization
Indexed Term Understanding.
aggression.
roots.
women.
young.
Other Form: Print version: Brown, Lyn Mikel. Girlfighting : Betrayal and Rejection among Girls. New York : NYU Press, ©2003 9780814799154
ISBN 9780814739112 (electronic bk.)
0814739113 (electronic bk.)
Standard No. AU@ 000055802314
DEBBG BV044162782
DEBSZ 397247591
DEBSZ 449286460
DEBSZ 456492356
AU@ 000076174612

 
    
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