Schoolgirls : young women, self-esteem, and the confidence gap / Peggy Orenstein in association with the American Association of University Women
- Author
- Orenstein, Peggy
- Additional Titles
- Young women, self-esteem, and the confidence gap
- Published
- New York : Anchor Books, 2000.
- Physical Description
- xxiii, 334 pages ; 21 cm
- Additional Creators
- American Association of University Women
- Contents
- Introduction : the bad news about good girls -- pt. 1. Weston Middle School -- 1. Learning silence : scenes from the class struggle -- 2. Toeing the line : schoolgirls -- 3. Fear of falling : sluts -- 4. Confronting vulnerability : the sensitive girl -- 5. Bodily harm : purging, gorging, and "delicate self-cutting" -- 6. Striking back : sexual harassment at Weston -- pt. 2. Audubon Middle School -- 7. "You people are animals" : life in the urban school -- 8. Split loyalties : homegirl vs. schoolgirl -- 9. "I choose not to go down that path" : unteachable girls -- 10. Slipping away : lost girls -- 11. Rising above : I like myself -- pt. 3. through the looking glass -- 12. Anita Hill is a boy : tales from a gender-fair classroom.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 0385425767
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-334).
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