Table of Contents:
  • Section 1. Identity and the immediate environment
  • The development of female identity / Phyllis A. Katz
  • Growing up black and female / Gloria Johnson Powell
  • Growing up with a physical handicap / Shirley Sargent
  • The father-daughter relationship : past, present, and future / Michael E. Lamb, Margaret Tresch Owen, and Lindsay Chase-Lansdale
  • Mothers and daughters / Phyllis R. Magrab
  • Section 2. Characteristics
  • Sex-related differences in spatial ability : a developmental psychological view / Lauren Julius Harris
  • The role of laughter and humor in growing up female / Paul E. McGhee
  • The changing nature of female delinquency / Sheila Balkan and Ronald J. Berger
  • The play of girls / Brian Sutton-Smith
  • Effects of observed violence on females : a critical review / Susan H. Franzblau
  • Section 3. The larger environment
  • Where are the women geniuses? Up the down escalator / Marilyn F. Graham and Beverly Birns
  • Some cross-cultural perspectives on becoming female / Thomas S. Wisner
  • "On the road to find out" : the role music plays in adolescent development / Julie Marks
  • Portrait of a female on television : some possible effects on children / Norma D. Feshbach, Arline S. Dillman, and Tricia S. Jordan
  • Dressing up / Shane Adler
  • Section 4. Biological considerations
  • The genetics of sex and its consequences / Kenneth K. Kidd
  • Physical growth of adolescent girls : patterns and sequence / Margaret S. Faust
  • Nutrition and women : facts and faddism / Charlotte Neumann.