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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha Gonna Do?
1 Reading the Culture of Girlfighting 17
2 Good Girls and Real Boys: Preparing the Ground in Early
Childhood 60
3 Playing It Like a Girl: Later Childhood and Preadolescence
115
4 Dancing Through the Minefield: The Middle School Years 171
5 Patrolling the Borders: High School 235
6 From Girlfighting to Sisterhood 307
7 This Book is an Action 349
Appendix 399
Notes 404
References 422
About the Author 442
Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Teenage girls Psychology, Interpersonal conflict in adolescence, Anger in adolescence, Aggressiveness in adolescence, Girls Psychology, Interpersonal conflict in children, Anger in children, Aggressiveness in children, Women Socialization, Female friendship