Sharon Lamb '77
The Secret Lives of Girls: What Good Girls Really Do -- Sex Play, Aggression, and Their Guilt. Hardcover, 255 pages; Simon & Schuster, 2001; ISBN: 0-7432-0107-8.
Sharon Lamb teaches psychology at St. Michael's College in Vermont and is a clinical psychologist in private practice.
"Writing in the tradition of Virginia Woolf and contemporary feminism, Sharon Lamb replaces the image of the 'angel in the house' with the voices of actual girls and women. In this important book, she asks us to listen to girls' anger and sexuality without condemnation; in doing so, she breaks the most pernicious taboos of patriarchy." -- Carol Gilligan
"Sharon Lamb understands girls and is able to provide the crucial but often misunderstood information that every parent needs. Fascinating, provocative, and absorbing, this is one of the best books to cross my desk in a long time." -- Michael Gurian, author of The Wonder of Girls and The Wonder of Boys
Sex, Therapy, and Kids: Addressing Their Concerns Through Talk and Play,
by Sharon Lamb ’77. Hardcover, 336 pages, W. W. Norton, September
2006.
This book shows therapists how to respond appropriately and effectively when
sexual issues emerge in therapeutic play of younger children or in conversation
with
teens. Lamb demonstrates
how to be sex-positive in a way that is responsive to the developmental stage
of the child
or teen and thus promotes honest conversations and successful therapy.
Packaging
Girlhood: Saving Our Daughters from Marketers’ Schemes, by
Sharon Lamb ’77 and Lyn Mikel
Brown. Hardcover, 336 pages, St. Martin’s Press, August 2006.
The image
of girls and girlhood that is being packaged and sold to your daughter isn’t
pretty in pink. It is stereotypical, demeaning, limiting, and alarming. Girl
Power
has been co-opted by marketers of music, fashion, books, and television to
mean the power to shop and attract boys. Girls are besieged by images in
the media
that encourage
accessorizing over academics, sex appeal over sports, fashion over friends.
Packaging Girlhood exposes these stereotypes and the very limited
choices presented of
who girls are and what they can be. Lamb and Brown give parents guidance
on how to talk with their daughters about these negative images and aid them
with tools on how to help girls make more positive choices about the way
they are in the world.
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