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Book SynopsisIn opposition to other books available discussing how girls are mean to each other, this book looks at WHY girls act this way. The author looks at the images family and media inadvertenly send to girls and discusses what should be done to prevent this avoidable pattern.
Trade Review"Browns book, however, is a clear departure from the film [Mean Girls] stereotypes about dumb, mean, backstabbing girls." -- Waterville * Sunday Morning Sentinel *
"While schools and parents scramble to once again 'fix girls' via meanness prevention programs, Lyn Brown gives us a wider, different, and eye-opening view of the problem. . . . This is the smartest book on mean girls around." -- Sharon Lamb,author of The Secret Lives of Girls
"This book opens discussion related to the female gender role and the socialization of girls in many different, thought provoking ways, and serves as a timely critique of the current societal messages directed toward girls." * Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy *
"Brown declares that to change the patterns of female animosity we must address the social environment as well as the individual." * Women's Review of Books *
"Girlfighting is a serious and intelligent analysis of the cruelty and meanness involved in girls' relationships at each stage of development." * Pyschiatric Services *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do? 1 Reading the Culture of Girl?ghting 2 Good Girls and Real Boys: Preparing the Ground in Early Childhood 3 Playing It Like a Girl: Later Childhood and Preadolescence4 Dancing through the Mine?eld: The Middle School Years 5 Patrolling the Borders: High School 6 From Girl?ghting to Sisterhood7 This Book Is an ActionAppendix Notes ReferencesIndexAbout the Author
