Raising their voices
Subtitle: the politics of girls' anger
By: Lyn Mikel Brown.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Subjects: Girls -- Maine -- Psychology -- Case studies.; Girls -- Maine -- Attitudes -- Case studies.; Girls -- United States -- Psychology.; Girls -- United States -- Attitudes.; Girls -- United States -- Social conditions.; Sex role in children -- United States -- Case studies.; Anger in children -- Case studies.; Anger in adolescence -- Case studies.; Women -- Socialization -- United States.
Description: This book, filled with voices of young girls, corrects the misperceptions that have crept into our picture of female adolescence.

Based on the author's yearlong conversation with white junior high and middle-school girls - from the working poor and the middle class - Raising Their Voices allows us to hear how girls adopt some expectations about gender but strenuously resist others, how they use traditionally feminine means to maintain their independence, and how they recognize and resist pressures to ignore their own needs and wishes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-250) and index.