Why are more American adolescent girls prey to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempts than ever before? According to Dr. Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist who has treated girls for more than twenty years, we live in a look-obsessed, media-saturated, "girl-poisoning" culture. Despite the advances of feminism, escalating levels of sexism and violence - from undervalued intelligence to sexual harassment in elementary school - cause girls to stifle their creative spirit and natural impulses, which, ultimately, destroys their self esteem. Yet girls often blame themselves or their families for this "problem with no name" instead of looking at the world around them as the culprit.
- ISBN10 0553476947
- ISBN13 9780553476941
- Publish Date 1 January 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 May 2017
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Imprint Corgi Audio
- Edition Abridged edition
- Format Audiobook
- Language English