The secret lives of girls : what good girls really do, sex play, aggression, and their guilt /

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Author / Creator:Lamb, Sharon.
Imprint:New York : Free Press, c2002.
Description:xvi, 255 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4654067
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ISBN:0743201078
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-247) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Good Girls versus Real Girls
  • Part I. The Sexual Lives of Girls
  • Chapter 1. "I'll Show You Mine If You Show Me Yours"
  • Zeroing In On: Play. What is Play? What is Sexual Play?
  • Chapter 2. Just Practicing: It's in Her Kiss
  • Chapter 3. Feminine Ideals: Make-up, Midriffs, and the Pleasures of Being Objectified
  • Chapter 4. Naked Barbies
  • Zeroing In On: Childhood Innocence and the Shaming of Sexuality
  • Chapter 5. Bodies and Pleasure: If It Feels Good, Why Is It so Bad?
  • Chapter 6. Playing Dead but Feeling Tingly
  • Chapter 7. Wanting It and Not Wanting It
  • Chapter 8. Two Kinds of Guilty Pleasure
  • Chapter 9. African-American Girls and Their Secrets
  • Chapter 10. Periods, Pubic Hair, Boobies, and Bodily Torture
  • Chapter 11. Guilty Minds and Sexual Obsessions
  • Chapter 12. Too Sexual Too Soon
  • Chapter 13. Unwelcome Intrusions: Sexual Coercion in the Lives of Girls
  • Chapter 14. Raising Sexual Girls: A Few Words to Parents
  • Part II. Aggression, Destruction, and Being Mean
  • Chapter 15. Aggression in Girls
  • Chapter 16. A Good Girl Doesn't Do That
  • Zeroing In On: Tomboys
  • Chapter 17. Dear Diary, I Hate Her! Secret Anger in Girls
  • Chapter 18. The Aggressive Acts of Good Girls
  • Zeroing In On: Pranks, Mischief, and Little Meannesses
  • Chapter 19. Feeling the Power
  • Chapter 20. Getting Physical: Girl Athletes
  • Chapter 21. Class, Clothes, and Cutting Her Down to Size
  • Zeroing in On: Language and Loudness
  • Chapter 22. "I'm No Sucker": Fighting and Fighting Back
  • Chapter 23. Raising Aggressive Girls?
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 24. Welcoming Sex, Power, and Aggression into the Lives of Girls
  • Notes
  • Index