Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes - Brossura

Lamb, Sharon; Brown, Lyn Mikel

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ISBN 10: 0312370059 ISBN 13: 9780312370053

Casa editrice: Griffin, 2007

Riassunto

A cautionary account of how culture, media, and marketers influence how girls dress as well as their developing senses of identity and esteem counsels parents on how to talk to their daughters in order to help them build resilience against negative stereotypes and messages. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

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L'autore:

Sharon Lamb is professor of psychology at Saint Michael's College in Vermont and the author of four books, including The Secret Lives of Girls. Her research on girls' development, teenagers and sex, and abuse and victimization is widely cited. As a clinical psychologist, she often works with girls, listening to their struggles and hearing their strengths, in her private practice in Shelburne, Vermont.

Lyn Mikel Brown, professor of education and human development at Colby College in Maine, is the author of three books on girls' development, including Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development (with Carol Gilligan). She creates programs for girls at her nonprofit organization, Hardy Girls Healthy Women (www.hardygirlshealthywomen.org).

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Advance praise for "Packaging Girlhood" "Be prepared to be shocked and saddened as you come to see the world of sex, shopping, media, body-fat, and self-esteem through the wide eyes of today's American girls. Be prepared, also, to find invaluable guidance and insight from authors Sharon Lamb and Lyn Brown who know our daughters from inside out. This is a must-read for parents and teachers who want to steer girls away from marketing schemes that distort female power and authority, and towards true self-acceptance and authentic empowerment."-Polly Young-Eisendrath, author of "Women and Desire" and "The Resilient Spirit" "Lyn Mikel Brown and Sharon Lamb have that rare gift of translating cutting edge research and analysis into strategies and information that every parent (and every girl) can use in daily life. In "Packaging Girlhood," they provide solid ways for families to help girls stay rooted in reality while buffeted by the powerful winds of commercialism. In the process, we parents learn more than a little about staying rooted in reality ourselves. This is the kind of guidance that families need, especially if they think they are immune from marketers' schemes."-Joe Kelly, President, Dads and Daughters "With compassion, insight, and humor, ÝLamb and Brownš unravel and demystify the messages girls confront throughout their development, and they offer adults useful tools to help girls resist their powerful pull. "Packaging Girlhood" is filled with useful information and practical suggestions for adults wishing to help girls critique and rewrite consumer culture's narrow and toxic portrayals of girls. Never judgmental and always illuminating, "PackagingGirlhood" reflects Lamb and Brown's deep respect for girls and their first-hand understanding of the dilemmas of parenting."-Lynn M. Phillips, Ph.D., Department of Communications, University of Massachusetts at Amherst "A tour de force of excellent scholarship put in a very readable context and chock full of practic

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Griffin
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0312370059
• ISBN 13: 9780312370053
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 322