The secret lives of girls
Subtitle: what good girls really do -- sex play, aggression, and their guilt
By: Sharon Lamb.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Girls; Girls -- Psychology; Girls -- Sexual behavior; Aggressiveness in children
Description: Draws from interviews with pre-teens, teens, and adult women to examine the everyday behavior of "real" pre-adolescent girls, revealing how private sexual play and aggressive behavior can mold them into strong, self-assured, and well-balanced women.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-247) and index.

Library copy signed by author.
Table of contents: title: "I'll show you mine if you show me yours" --; title: Just practicing : it's in her kiss --; title: Feminine ideals : make-up, midriffs, and the pleasures of being objectified --; title: Naked Barbie --; title: Bodies and pleasure : if it fells good, why is it so bad? --; title: Playing dead but feeling tingly --; title: Wanting it and not wanting it --; title: Two kinds of guilty pleasure --; title: African-American girls and their secrets --; title: Periods, pubic hair, boobies, and bodily torture --; title: Guilty minds and sexual obsessions --; title: Too sexual too soon --; title: Unwelcome intrusions : sexual coercion in the lives of girls --; title: Raising sexual girls : a few words to parents --; title: Aggression in girls -- A; title: good girl doesn't do that --; title: Dear diary, I hate her! Secret anger in girls -- The; title: aggressive acts of good girls --; title: Feeling the power --; title: Getting physical : girl athletes --; title: Class, clothes, and cutting her down to size --; title: "I'm no sucker" : fighting and fighting back --; title: Raising aggressive girls? --; title: Welcoming sex, power, and aggression into the lives of girls.