The secret lives of girls : what good girls really do -- sex play, aggression, and their guilt /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lamb, Sharon
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Free Press, [2001]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • "I'll show you mine if you show me yours"
  • Just practicing : it's in her kiss
  • Feminine ideals : make-up, midriffs, and the pleasures of being objectified
  • Naked Barbie
  • Bodies and pleasure : if it fells good, why is it so bad?
  • Playing dead but feeling tingly
  • Wanting it and not wanting it
  • Two kinds of guilty pleasure
  • African-American girls and their secrets
  • Periods, pubic hair, boobies, and bodily torture
  • Guilty minds and sexual obsessions
  • Too sexual too soon
  • Unwelcome intrusions : sexual coercion in the lives of girls
  • Raising sexual girls : a few words to parents
  • Aggression in girls
  • A good girl doesn't do that
  • Dear diary, I hate her! Secret anger in girls
  • The aggressive acts of good girls
  • Feeling the power
  • Getting physical : girl athletes
  • Class, clothes, and cutting her down to size
  • "I'm no sucker" : fighting and fighting back
  • Raising aggressive girls?
  • Welcoming sex, power, and aggression into the lives of girls.