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Adolescent Girls in Crisis: Intervention and Hope.

Publication: Families, Systems & Health
Publication Date: 01-MAR-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Adolescent Girls in Crisis: Intervention and Hope.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Adolescent Girls in Crisis: Intervention and Hope

by Martha B. Straus

W.W. Norton

New York, 2007, 398 pp.

DOI: 10.1037/1091-7527.26.1.108

Are today's adolescent girls really in crisis? If so, how many, who are they, and what are they in crisis about? For the past decade, there has been an ongoing debate over the degree of risk teenage girls experience and how to help them. Beginning in the 1990s, Mary Pipher's (1995) Reviving Ophelia, the American Association of University Women's (1995) How Schools Shortchange Girls, and Taylor, Gilligan, and Sullivan's (1995) Between Voice and Silence were seminal in outlining the many ways in which girls are silenced, sexualized, and unsupported during their teens and the potential impact this can have on their future. Soon after, a challenge was issued by Christina Hoff Sommers in an article in the Atlantic Monthly (Sommers, 2000) in which she questioned the accuracy of some of...

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