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Title: The Secret Lives of Girls: What Good Girls Really Do--Sex Play, Aggression, and Their Guilt by Sharon Lamb ISBN: 0-7432-0107-8 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (7 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Girls young and old need to read this book
Comment: Ah yes, you may be thinking, another femenist book about how girls get the short end of the stick when it comes to sexuality and agressive behavior. But lo! That's not (entirely) what you'll find here. Yes, she does talk about how girls are more repressed than boys, especially in the agression section of the book, but mostly it's a book about realizing that girls take part in sex play and aggression, too. In many places it's a celebration of this fact, especially as Ms. Lamb reveals to the women she interviews and the readers that we are in fact "normal." The disapointment I have in this book is her lack of discussing what as an adolescent educator I should do now with this knowledge. Still an excelent read for women or for anyone in charge of raising one.
Rating: 2
Summary: This book was disappointing...
Comment: I was really looking forward to reading this book, but was disappointed both by the content and the writing. Much of the book is made up of quotes from the women that Lamb interviewed, and most of the rest of the book seems to be Lamb's own clinical interpretation of these statements. I found her clinical opinions (e.g., something about believing it is ok for girls to shut the door of the bedroom and talk to each other with the lips of their vaginas) annoying and uninformed. In my estimation, the book mentioned, but underplayed the connection between early sexuality and previous or on-going sexual abuse... sure, it may be acceptable for girls to experiment sexually with each other, but it is the job of parents and psychologists to ensure that these behaviors did not stem from abuse. No, we don't want to raise women who are ashamed of their sexuality, but turning our backs on these behaviors is not always prudent, and may even be viewed as neglectful. I would also have found this book more useful if Lamb's findings had been integrated into other published research more often than into her own personal views.
Rating: 5
Summary: Love your daughter? READ THIS BOOK!
Comment: Sharon Lamb has written the book that amazingly has not been written up to now. Why this is so is a separate intriguing question that I answered in my own discomfort as I read Sharon's work: Our culture is still very much locked into artificially imposed views of female sexuality and aggression, and our daughters still pay the price. As an Irish-Catholic dad, I can predict that many parents will be so shocked in the first five minutes of this reading that they will angrily toss SECRET LIVES back on the shelf. If you love your daughter, don't do this. You owe her the truths about herself, truths that we may find hard to accept. Read this, and learn, especially if it makes you uneasy. Love your kid that much.
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Title: Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends, and Other Realities of Adolescence by Rosalind Wiseman ISBN: 1400047927 Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA) Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls by Rachel Simmons ISBN: 0156027348 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Fast Girls: Teenage Tribes and the Myth of the Slut by Emily White ISBN: 0425191761 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation by Leora Tanenbaum ISBN: 0060957409 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Woman's Inhumanity to Woman by Phyllis Chesler ISBN: 0452284082 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 28 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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