Odd girl out : the hidden culture of aggression in girls

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Label

Odd girl out : the hidden culture of aggression in girls

Title remainder

the hidden culture of aggression in girls

Statement of responsibility

Rachel Simmons

Creator

• Simmons, Rachel, 1966-

Subject

• Aggressiveness in girls
• Bullying -- Prevention
• Cyberbullying -- Prevention
• Girls -- Psychology

Language

eng

Summary

Odd Girl Out begins with the premise that girls are socialized to be sweet with a double bind: they must value friendships; but they must not express the anger that might destroy them. Lacking cultural permission to acknowledge conflict, girls develop what Simmons calls "a hidden culture of silent and indirect aggression." The author, who visited 30 schools and talked to 300 girls, catalogues chilling and heartbreaking acts of aggression, including the silent treatment, note-passing, glaring, gossiping, ganging up, fashion police, and being nice in private/mean in public. She decodes the vocabulary of these sneak attacks, explaining, for example, three ways to parse the meaning of "I'm fat"

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

302.5408342

Index

index present

LC call number

BF723.A35

LC item number

S56 2011

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography