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Author Orenstein, Peggy.

Title Schoolgirls : young women, self-esteem, and the confidence gap / Peggy Orenstein in association with the American Association of University Women.

Publication Info. New York : Doubleday, [1994]
©1994

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  305.235 OR3    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.235 O66S    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.235 O66S2    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xxix, 335 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-334).
Contents Introduction: The bad news about good girls. -- Weston Middle School. Learning silence: scenes from the class struggle ; Towing the line: schoolgirls ; Fear of falling: sluts ; Confronting vulnerability: the sensitive girl ; Bodily harm: purging, gorging, and "delicate self-cutting" ; Striking back: sexual harassment at Weston. -- Audubon Middle School. "You people are animals": life in the urban school ; Split loyalties: homegirl vs. schoolgirl ; "I choose not to go down that path": unteachable girls ; Slipping away: lost girls ; Rising above: I like myself. -- Through the looking glass: Anita Hill is a boy: tales from a gender-fair classroom. -- Afterword by the American Association of University Women.
Subject Teenage girls -- United States -- Psychology.
Self-esteem in adolescence -- United States.
Self-perception in adolescence -- United States.
Ego.
Adolescent.
Women -- psychology.
Added Author American Association of University Women.
ISBN 0385425759: $23.50 ($29.95 Can.)
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