Friday, February 24, 2006
The Secret Lives of Girls
Every mother, teach… ah well, woman (or man trying to understand girls) should read Sharon Lamb’s book, The Secret Lives of Girls: What Good Girls Really Do: Sex Play, Aggression, and Their Guilt.
When young girls spread hurtful gossip, dress suggestively and shun other girls, they may, in fact, be projecting the shame they feel about their sexuality, according to the author, a professor of education.
Lamb believes that society gives a contradictory picture of rampant sexual images but condemnation of girls’ sexual feelings.
Girls may strike out against one of their own, branding her the slut they all fear that they might themselves be.
When young girls spread hurtful gossip, dress suggestively and shun other girls, they may, in fact, be projecting the shame they feel about their sexuality, according to the author, a professor of education.
Lamb believes that society gives a contradictory picture of rampant sexual images but condemnation of girls’ sexual feelings.
Girls may strike out against one of their own, branding her the slut they all fear that they might themselves be.
