Celebrating Girls: Nurturing and Empowering Our Daughters

by Virginia Beane Rutter

Book Overview

Jungian psychologist Virginia Beane Rutter offers a wide variety of everyday things women can do to strengthen a girl's sense of self and ensure confidence and healthy self-esteem throughout her... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573240532
• ISBN13: 9781573240536
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Red Wheel
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

A must for mothers of daughters

I am amazed that there are only 3 reviews of this wonderful book. I LOVE this book. It affirmed many of my beliefs regarding the celebration of femininity. So many wonderful suggestions for connecting to our daughters from infancy through adolescence -- remembering and reviving the ways women have honored their daughters for centuries. The simple gesture of brushing your daughter's hair will take on new meaning. When my daughter was younger (she is currently 17!), this book was a wonderful guide. I gave this as a baby shower gift a few years ago and recently crossed paths with the mother. She expressed how grateful she was to have the book -- how she wished HER mother had had such a resource. By the way, if you are thinking about a gift for a mother of an adolescent girl, buy the author's other book: Embracing Persephone -- a must-read for a mother of a middle school or high school girl.

A Self-Esteem Plus!!!

I came upon this book by accident. I was searching the library shelves for books on adolescents for a reasearch paper on troubled youth, and all of a sudden a little pink and purple colored book came falling off the shelf. It turned out to be one of those little moments where you could sense destiny happening before your eyes.What started out as a research paper for school, turned into a major life changing moment. I can't help wishing that my mother could have read this book before I was born...how different my journey into adulthood would have been!!!This is an inspiring book that can help parents raise their daughters with dignity, and a sense of self, in a world where Brittney Spears seems to be of high influence, kids complain because they have only ONE pair of [expensive] shoes, and expect not only a [expensive] Nintendo Play Station, but other holiday/birthday gifts as well (what ever happened to begging for the simple pony)? In fact, I would not only recommend this for parents, but for anyone who is looking to make peace, and mend relationships with their own parents. It helped me to understand myself and my childhood a whole lot better. It's a wonderful, wonderful book. Every young girl should be under its influence.

An answer to Reviving Ophelia

Reviving Ophelia, while necessary and in my opinion accurate, was pretty discouraging. It talked all about the problems of how girls' self-esteem plummets during puberty. And it compares girls to a tree in a hurricane who need the support of others to survive. But Reviving Ophelia doesn't give much advice as to what a parent can do.I really liked this book because it gave a lot of concrete examples of how to make your daughter proud of being a woman. From doing the hair of a toddler to coming of age ceremonies, this book had a lot of good suggestions. I also liked that it had examples of how things are done in other cultures such as certain Native American or African groups of people.

A great book for all Moms with daughters

This book really gave me some insight into raising my daughter. It explores the differences in the way girls and women are raised in other cultures as well as our own. It helped me to really look to my daughters spirit and nurture her at the heart of it. I gave it to a friend and now I'm purchasing another copy!