Description:
Why are girls becoming more aggressive in their everyday lives,
and how is it affecting their overall self-esteem? Rachel Simmons, a
Rhodes scholar who has researched female bullying and the psychology
of girls, feels that girls' aggressiveness is just as harmful as that
of boys but is much harder to recognize. The author, visited 30 schools
and talked to 300 girls, cataloguing acts of aggression, including the
silent treatment, note-passing, glaring, gossiping, ganging up, fashion
police, and being nice in private/mean in public.
Our panel:
Jackie Shelton
Stephanie Kruse
Jessica Groach
Mike Chern
Links
for this book:
http://www.januarymagazine.com/nonfiction/oddgirlout.html
http://www.harcourtbooks.com/authorinterviews/
bookinterview_Simmons.asp
Also
by this author:
Behind
My Back: Girls Write about Bullies, Cliques, Popularity, and Jealousy;
Harvest Books; January 19, 2004
A study of a group of children of exceptionally high intelligence quotient
in situations partaking of the nature of suggestion; AMS Press
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