Educating Adolescent Girls

Originally published in 1980, the main purpose of this work was to provide a soundly based textbook on the education of adolescent girls which, by taking into account the changing role of women in our society at the time, would be of immediate use to all practitioners and students of education.

Preface. 1. An Introduction to Adolescent Girls 2. The Adolescent in Conflict 3. The Coming of Puberty 4. Dependency 5. The Physical Education of the Adolescent 6. Keeping up Appearances 7. Classroom Control and the Normal Adolescent 8. Classroom Control and the Difficult Girl 9. The Bully and the Bullied 10. School Refusal 11. Sexuality 12. Girls Who Have Been Assaulted 13. Girls and their Health 14. Suicide, Depression and Suicide Threats 15. Stealing 16. The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Drops the H-Bomb 17. Careers 18. Conclusion - a Mind Like a Man's. Bibliography and References. Index.