Adolescent Girls in Crisis: Intervention and Hope
by Martha B. Straus
W.W. Norton
New York, 2007, 398 pp.
DOI: 10.1037/1091-7527.26.1.108
Are today's adolescent girls really in crisis? If so, how many, who are they, and what are they in crisis about? For the past decade, there has been an ongoing debate over the degree of risk teenage girls experience and how to help them. Beginning in the 1990s, Mary Pipher's (1995) Reviving Ophelia, the American Association of University Women's (1995) How Schools Shortchange Girls, and Taylor, Gilligan, and Sullivan's (1995) Between Voice and Silence were seminal in outlining the many ways in which girls are silenced, ...