Girls Will Be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters by Joann Deak, Teresa Barker, Teresa Barker (With)

JoAnn Deak, Ph.D., is an international speaker, educator, and school psychologist. She lectures frequently, often in tandem with Raising Cain coauthor Michael Thompson. She is a consultant to schools worldwide on issues of brain development, gender equity, and optimal learning environments for boys and girls. Teresa Barker is a veteran journalist and coauthor of numerous books, including Raising Cain, Speaking of Boys, and The Mother-Daughter Book Club. Barker and her family, including two daughters, live in Wilmette, Illinois.

Introduction 1 Chapter 1 The Search for Perspective 9 Chapter 2 The Formative Years: The Layering of Nature, Nuture, and Life Experience 37 Chapter 3 Betwixt and Between: The Preadolescent Years 69 Chapter 4 Everything and Nothing: Sharing the Adolescent Girl's Struggle to Be and Become Herself 103 Chapter 5 Mothers and Daughters: Roots to Grow, Wings to Fly 136 Chapter 6 Fathers and Daughters: Soul Mates, Strangers, and a Delicate Dance 161 Chapter 7 The Galapagos Islands of Girls' Social Development 193 Chapter 8 Aiming to Please: Moving Beyond the "Tyranny of Niceness" 221 Chapter 9 Parents Under Pressure: How to Think Straight When Worry Sets In 243 Chapter 10 Girls in Action: The Magic of Doing 266 Epilogue: Girls in Progress 286

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