- Hardcover: 208 pages
- Publisher: Jossey Bass (10 Jun 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0787975710
- ISBN-13: 978-0787975715
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15 x 2 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,959,194 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"This provides answers."
—Bill Cosby
—Bill Cosby
"This book provides solid insights and suggestions as to steps we must take to address girl violence before it gets out of hand. I applaud the authors’ work, commitment, and their heartfelt and practical advice."
—From the Foreword by Janet Reno
"This book is a much–needed wake–up call for everyone who still believes that violence is something girls just don’t do. Parents and teachers both will be grateful for its insights into how to identify negative influences and what adults can do to help."
—Marian Wright Edelman, president, Children’s Defense Fund
"A timely book! The authors warn of the distressing increase in violence among girls. Their recommendations can help parents and policymakers stem the tide of this frightening trend."
—Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D., professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Judge Baker Children’s Center, Boston, Massachusetts
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Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice is a groundbreaking book that offers parents and teachers a primer for understanding and preventing the increasing incidents of physical violence––hazing, brutality, fighting, weapons, murder––by young girls. Written by Drs. Deborah Prothrow–Stith and Howard R. Spivak—the renowned Harvard– and Tufts–based experts on preventing youth violence—this important book offers a plan to help our daughters become strong, confident, powerful, and independent young women without being violent.
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Not that it should or ever did, but this nursery rhyme certainly does not describe today's boys and girls. Read the first page
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A Parents Call, 24 Aug 2005
By Margaret White "Margaret White" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice: Girls and Violence in America (Hardcover)
Many experts and famous people support this books: Marian Wright-Edelman, Bill Cosby, Alvin Poussaint etc. but as a parent I want to say this book has helped tremendously. The pain my daughter and I were experiencing together and respectively was enormous. This book was a really helpful step along the long road of healing. It is many tiny hurtful incidents that can leave a large wound. It is from this wounded place that people find their violent selves and lose control. This book helped me understand that and so I understand my situation and daughter better. I treat this situation with a level of understanding and calmness that I never had before. The absence of this often made me verbally violent towards my daughter, only making our situation worse. I thank the authors for calling out a problem that everyone wants to ignore. With or without the support of experts and famous people- as a real person-I can say book gave me tools and hope and combined with other measures has helped create a better life and better for me and my daughter.
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Powerful Read for Those who Teach Girls, 23 Aug 2009
By Robin Wilson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls' Violence (Paperback)
This book is a required text in the Ed.D program at Liberty University. Very interesting read. Easy to understand. Good resources.
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Answers to an eras problem, 24 Aug 2005
By Mary - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice: Girls and Violence in America (Hardcover)
This book does an excellent job of identifying, articulating and fleshing out a problem that is so ingrained in our culture, that few people realize what a problem it is. Often it is only hindsight that offers the insight that this book gives regarding the toxic levels of violence in our society. Hopefully, this book and books like it will offer a new, more sophisticated and enlightened way for humans to solve problems. Because it is all fun and games until someone loses and eye.
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