Swimming Upstream: Parenting Girls for Resilience in a Toxic Culture

by Laura Choate and Laura H. Choate

Book Overview

A guide to help parents teach their daughters to resist negative cultural messages.

Never before have adolescent girls faced so many confusing and contradictory expectations. From a young age, popular culture teaches girls that their worth is based on their appearance, their ability to gain attention, and an ever-increasing accrual of accomplishments. With such unattainable standards, it is no wonder that many girls experience stress, self-doubt,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199391130
• ISBN13: 9780199391134
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"