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Brown's book, however, is a clear departure from the film [Mean Girls] stereotypes about dumb, mean, backstabbing girls. -Waterville, Sunday Morning Sentinel This book opens discussion related to the female gender role and the socialization of girls in many different, thought provoking ways, and serves as a timely critique of the current societal messages directed toward girls. -Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Girlfighting is a serious and intelligent analysis of the cruelty and meanness involved in girls' relationships at each stage of development. -Pyschiatric Services While schools and parents scramble to once again 'fix girls' via meanness prevention programs, Lyn Brown gives us a wider, different, and eye-opening view of the problem... This is the smartest book on mean girls around. -Sharon Lamb,author of The Secret Lives of Girls Brown declares that to change the patterns of female animosity we must address the social environment as well as the individual. -Women's Review of Books

Brown's book, however, is a clear departure from the film [Mean Girls] stereotypes about dumb, mean, backstabbing girls. -Waterville, Sunday Morning Sentinel Brown declares that to change the patterns of female animosity we must address the social environment as well as the individual. -Women's Review of Books Girlfighting is a serious and intelligent analysis of the cruelty and meanness involved in girls' relationships at each stage of development. -Pyschiatric Services While schools and parents scramble to once again 'fix girls' via meanness prevention programs, Lyn Brown gives us a wider, different, and eye-opening view of the problem... This is the smartest book on mean girls around. -Sharon Lamb,author of The Secret Lives of Girls This book opens discussion related to the female gender role and the socialization of girls in many different, thought provoking ways, and serves as a timely critique of the current societal messages directed toward girls. -Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy

Brown's book, however, is a clear departure from the film [Mean Girls] stereotypes about dumb, mean, backstabbing girls. -Waterville, Sunday Morning Sentinel Girlfighting is a serious and intelligent analysis of the cruelty and meanness involved in girls' relationships at each stage of development. -Pyschiatric Services While schools and parents scramble to once again 'fix girls' via meanness prevention programs, Lyn Brown gives us a wider, different, and eye-opening view of the problem... This is the smartest book on mean girls around. -Sharon Lamb,author of The Secret Lives of Girls This book opens discussion related to the female gender role and the socialization of girls in many different, thought provoking ways, and serves as a timely critique of the current societal messages directed toward girls. -Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Brown declares that to change the patterns of female animosity we must address the social environment as well as the individual. -Women's Review of Books

Challenges the popular notion that 'girls will be girls,' gives readers a sense of hope that this trend can be reversed, and suggests practical ways to support girls and bring about social change. - Christian Science Monitor; Brown declares that to change the patterns of female animosity we must address the social environment as well as the individual. - The Women's Review of Books; Lyn Brown gives us a wider, different, and eye-opening view of the problem... This is the smartest book on mean girls around. - Sharon Lamb, author of The Secret Lives of Girls; When it comes to girls' issues, there aren't many people more expert than Lyn Mikel Brown. - Daughters magazine

While schools and parents scramble to once again 'fix girls' via meanness prevention programs, Lyn Brown gives us a wider, different, and eye-opening view of the problem... This is the smartest book on mean girls around. -Sharon Lamb,author of The Secret Lives of Girls Brown's book, however, is a clear departure from the film [Mean Girls] stereotypes about dumb, mean, backstabbing girls. -Waterville, Sunday Morning Sentinel Girlfighting is a serious and intelligent analysis of the cruelty and meanness involved in girls' relationships at each stage of development. -Pyschiatric Services This book opens discussion related to the female gender role and the socialization of girls in many different, thought provoking ways, and serves as a timely critique of the current societal messages directed toward girls. -Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Brown declares that to change the patterns of female animosity we must address the social environment as well as the individual. -Women's Review of Books

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Lyn Mikel Brown is associate professor of education and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Colby College and co-creator of Hardy Girls Healthy Women (www hardygirlshealthywomen.org). She is the author of Raising Their Voices: The Politics of Girls' Anger and, with Carol Gilligan, Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and Girls' Development. She lives in Waterville, ME.

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