- Between Voice and Silence
- Jill McLean Taylor
- Carol Gilligan
- Amy Sullivan
- When adolescent girls silence or censor themselves to maintain relationships, they often become depressed and develop a range of psychological problems. When they remain outspoken they are labeled as troublemakers. If this is true in an affluent suburban setting, where much of this groundbreaking research took place, what of girls from poor and working-class families? In Between Voice and Silence, Taylor, Gilligan, and Sullivan grapple with these questions.
- Paperback 1997 / Hardcover
- Dilemmas of Desire
- Deborah L. Tolman
- What teenage girls make of their awakening sexuality--distant from and yet susceptible to cultural stereotypes--emerges for the first time in Deborah Tolman's Dilemmas of Desire. Thoughtful, vivid, and richly informed, this revealing book begins the critical work of understanding the sexuality of young women in all its personal, social, and emotional significance.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2005
- Fat Talk
- Mimi Nichter
- The result of a study that followed hundreds of teen-aged girls for three years, Fat Talk brings to light the subtleties, the complexities, and the realities of girls' ideas about their shapes, their eating habits, and their physical ideals. Anthropologist Mimi Nichter uses an engaging narrative style to explore the influence of peers, family, and media on girls' sense of self. She finds that despite widespread dissatisfaction with one aspect or another of their bodies, the girls did not diet so much as talk about dieting. "Fat talk," Nichter wryly argues, is a kind of social ritual among friends, a way of establishing solidarity.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001
- The New Gay Teenager
- Ritch C. Savin-Williams
- Gay, straight, bisexual: how much does sexual orientation matter to a teenager's mental health or sense of identity? In this down-to-earth book, filled with the voices of young people speaking for themselves, Savin-Williams argues that the standard image of gay youth presented by mental health researchers--as depressed, isolated, drug-dependent, even suicidal--may have been exaggerated even twenty years ago, and is far from accurate today.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2006
- Out of the Woods
- Stuart T. Hauser
- Joseph P. Allen
- Eve Golden
- Deeply troubled teenagers spend time in a locked psychiatric ward. They are out of control--violent or suicidal, in trouble with the law, unpredictable, and dangerous. Twenty years later, a handful of them are thriving. In a series of interviews that began during their hospitalizations and ended years later, these teens tell their stories. Out of the Woods portrays edgy teenagers developing into thoughtful, responsible adults. Listening in on the poignant, dramatic, and funny interviews, we hear the kids growing into more composed versions of their tough and feisty selves.
- Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008
- Raising Their Voices
- Lyn Mikel Brown
- This book, filled with the voices of teenage girls, corrects the misperceptions that have crept into our picture of female adolescence. Based on the author's yearlong conversation with white junior high and middle school girls--from the working poor and the middle class--Raising Their Voices allows us to hear how girls adopt some expectations about gender but strenuously resist others, how they use traditionally feminine means to maintain their independence, and how they recognize and resist pressures to ignore their own needs and wishes.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1999
- The Relationship Code
- David Reiss
- Robert Plomin
- Jenae M. Neiderhiser
- E. Mavis Hetherington
- The Relationship Code is the report of a longitudinal study, conducted over a ten-year period, of the influence of family relationships and genetic factors on competence and psychopathology in adolescent development. The sample for this landmark study included 720 pairs of same-sex adolescent siblings--including twins, half siblings, and genetically unrelated siblings--and their parents. Using a clear expressive style, David Reiss and his coinvestigators propose a striking hypothesis: family relationships are crucial to the expression of genetic influences and may constitute a code for translating genetic influences into the ontogeny of behaviors, a code every bit as important for behavior as DNA-RNA.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2003