The triple bind : saving our teenage girls from today's pressures /
In many ways, today is the best time in history to be a girl: opportunities for a girl's success are as unlimited as her dreams. Yet societal expectations, cultural trends, and conflicting messages are creating what psychologist Stephen Hinshaw calls "the Triple Bind." Girls are now e...
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New York :
Ballantine Books,
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- Impossible expectations
- Blue jeans and "blue" genes : depression and the Triple Bind
- Life in the pressure cooker : impossible expectations and the culture of busy-ness
- No place to run, no place to hide : the popular culture of "self-erasing identities"
- When virtue is its own punishment : how empathy and verbal skills may put our girls at higher risk
- Bratz dolls and Pussycat Dolls : teaching our girls to become sexual objects
- The wired child : how cyberculture interferes with girls' identities
- See Jane hit : the new culture of violence among teenage girls
- Is there a Triple Bind solution?
- Conclusion: Coming to terms with the Triple Bind.