Sugar and spice and no longer nice : how we can stop girls' violence /
Prothrow-Stith, Deborah, 1954-
Sugar and spice and no longer nice : how we can stop girls' violence / Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Howard R. Spivak ; foreword by Janet Reno. - First edition. - xiv, 183 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-174) and index.
Foreword / understanding the challenge -- We have a problem -- Hidden aggression becomes outward violence -- Facts and figures -- Risk factors and protective factors -- Feminization of the superhero -- taking on the challenge -- Tips for parents -- Tips for teachers and schools -- What communities can do -- A call to action. Janet Reno -- Pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Pt. 2. 6. 7. 8. 9.
"Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice is a book that offers parents and teachers a primer for understanding and preventing the increasing incidents of physical violence - hazing, brutality, fighting, weapons, murder - by girls. Written by Drs. Deborah Prothrow-Stith and Howard R. Spivak - the renowned Harvard- and Tufts-based experts on preventing youth violence - this important book offers a plan to help our daughters become strong, confident, powerful, and independent young women without being violent." "The book is well grounded in scientific data and filled with illustrative examples of girls' real-life stories of violence. The stories cover a range of issues and risk factors that focus on girls' violent and aggressive behavior."--BOOK JACKET.
0787975710 9780787975715
2005003708
Girls--Psychology
Girls--Social conditions
Violence in children
Violence in adolescence
HQ777 / .P76 2005
303.6083520973
Sugar and spice and no longer nice : how we can stop girls' violence / Deborah Prothrow-Stith, Howard R. Spivak ; foreword by Janet Reno. - First edition. - xiv, 183 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-174) and index.
Foreword / understanding the challenge -- We have a problem -- Hidden aggression becomes outward violence -- Facts and figures -- Risk factors and protective factors -- Feminization of the superhero -- taking on the challenge -- Tips for parents -- Tips for teachers and schools -- What communities can do -- A call to action. Janet Reno -- Pt. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Pt. 2. 6. 7. 8. 9.
"Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice is a book that offers parents and teachers a primer for understanding and preventing the increasing incidents of physical violence - hazing, brutality, fighting, weapons, murder - by girls. Written by Drs. Deborah Prothrow-Stith and Howard R. Spivak - the renowned Harvard- and Tufts-based experts on preventing youth violence - this important book offers a plan to help our daughters become strong, confident, powerful, and independent young women without being violent." "The book is well grounded in scientific data and filled with illustrative examples of girls' real-life stories of violence. The stories cover a range of issues and risk factors that focus on girls' violent and aggressive behavior."--BOOK JACKET.
0787975710 9780787975715
2005003708
Girls--Psychology
Girls--Social conditions
Violence in children
Violence in adolescence
HQ777 / .P76 2005
303.6083520973