Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice
Girls and Violence in America
Published on 18. May 2005
Book
Hardback
208 pages
978-0-7879-7571-5 (ISBN)
Description
Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice is a groundbreaking book that offers parents and teachers a primer for understanding and preventing the increasing incidents of physical violence----hazing, brutality, fighting, weapons, murder----by young girls. Written by Drs. Deborah Prothrow--Stith and Howard R. Spivak the renowned Harvard-- and Tufts--based experts on preventing youth violence this important book offers a plan to help our daughters become strong, confident, powerful, and independent young women without being violent.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7879-7571-5 (9780787975715)
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Other editions
Additional editions
Deborah Prothrow-Stith | Howard R. Spivak
Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice
How We Can Stop Girls' Violence
E-Book
05/2005
Jossey-Bass
€10.99
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Persons
Deborah Prothrow-Stith, M.D., is associate dean for faculty development and professor of public health practice and founding director of the Division of Public Health Practice at the Harvard University School of Public Health. Prothrow-Stith is a pioneer of the effort in America to understand youth violence as a public health problem-not just a law enforcement problem. Howard R. Spivak, M.D., is chief of the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and vice president for community health programs at the New England Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also professor of pediatrics and community health at Tufts University School of Medicine and director of the Tufts University Center for Children. Prothrow-Stith and Spivak coauthored Murder Is No Accident: Understand and Preventing Youth Violence in America (Jossey-Bass, 2004).
Content
Foreword (Janet Reno).Acknowledgments.Part One: Understanding the Challenge.1. We Have a Problem.2. Hidden Aggression Becomes Outward Violence.3. Facts and Figures.4. Risk Factors and Protective Factors.5. Feminization of the Superhero.Part Two: Taking On the Challenge.6. Tips for Parents.7. Tips for Teachers and Schools.8. What Communities Can Do.9. A Call to Action.Notes.Resources.About the Authors.Index.