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From playground games of "chase and kiss" to rough-and-tumble soccer games, from slumber party stripteases to romantic fantasies behind closed doors, author Sharon Lamb coaxes out girls' true stories with uncommon sensitivity and focus. The result of more than 125 fascinating interviews with pre-teens, teenagers, and adult women, "The Secret Lives of Girls" reveals the ways that girls use their minds and bodies for private sexual play, mischief, and hidden aggression. To truly understand what little girls are made of, Lamb suggests, we must listen not only to what they say to us but also to what they don't say, taking into account their hidden selves and the lives that we adults don't see. Yes, girls are known to be "good," but they manage to act out in decidedly ungirlish ways and, despite many parents' fears, be the better for it.
About the Author
Sharon Lamb, Ed.D., Ph.D., ABPP and Harvard University College of Education graduate is Professor of Counseling Psychology in the Department of Counseling and School Psychology at UMass Boston. Sharon has written, edited, and co-authored 11 books and won two awards: the Books for a Better Life Award, for Packaging Girlhood, and the Society for Sex Therapy and Research's book award for Sex, Therapy, and Kids. She is a co-author of the American Psychological Association's Task Force Report on the Sexualization of Girls and, with Lyn Mikel Brown and Mark Tappan, Packaging Boyhood. Her book Sex Ed for Caring Schools: Creating an Ethics-Based Curriculum, published by Teachers College Press, presents her curriculum, the SECS-C (Sexual Ethics for a Caring Society Curriculum) which can be found at www.sexualethics.org. She also has a new curriculum on bystander interventions for first year college students based on published research on the ethical reasoning of bystanders who intervene in "sketchy" sexual situations. An experienced clinician, Sharon also sees children, adolescents, adults, and couples at her therapy office in Shelburne, Vermont. She trains students doctoral and masters students at UMass Boston. Sharon also does forensic evaluations in the state of Vermont as an expert in the best interests of the child, sexual abuse, harassment, and attachment which has formed the basis of her upcoming book. The Not Good Enough Mother, which will be published in May by Beacon Press.
