Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
Dirty looks and taunting notes are just a few examples of girl bullying that girls and women have long suffered through silently and painfully. With this book Rachel Simmons elevated the nation's consciousness and has shown millions of girls, parents, counselors, and teachers how to deal with...
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Dirty looks and taunting notes are just a few examples of girl bullying that girls and women have long suffered through silently and painfully. With this book Rachel Simmons elevated the nation's consciousness and has shown millions of girls, parents, counselors, and teachers how to deal with this devastating problem. Poised to reach a wider audience in paperback, including the teenagers who are its subject, Odd Girl Out puts the spotlight on this issue, using real-life examples from both the perspective of the victim and of the bully.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780756789565 (0756789567)
Publish date: May 30th 2005
Publisher: Diane Pub Co
Pages no: 296
Edition language: English
Must read for every teenage girl out there (or those raising girls!)
A must read for any parent of a daughter. Whether your own child is going through the hell that is relational aggression or if she is a perpetrator, Simmons' book shines a light on how our entire society sets girls up to fail each other. By insisting that nice girls only act "nice", we leave them no...
Interesting. Informative. Had plenty of resource materials and a decent bibliography. Some interpretations of the data I disagreed with, but on the whole a useful read.
girls can be just as aggressive as boys. WE just tend to view the aggression differently, and channel it differently.
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