Sexism & Sensibility: Raising Empowered, Resilient Girls in the Modern World
(By Jo-Ann Finkelstein PhD)
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The world is full of mixed messages for girls: Stand up for yourself but do it softly. Be independent but not single. Love your body, just make sure it’s waxed, bleached, and thin. And then there are the more overt hostilities: being talked over, paid less, touched without permission, and having politicians debate their right to bodily autonomy. Many parents find it simpler to affirm girls’ strength than to address these distressing experiences directly. But with girls’ skyrocketing rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide, parenting them in this culture presents an urgent challenge: How do we teach girls to recognize and cope with these realities without crushing their belief that they can effect change?
Harvard-educated psychologist Jo-Ann Finkelstein has more than two decades of experience working with girls, helping them find resilience in the face of toxic messages about beauty, sex, and femininity. In Sexism & Sensibility, she draws on real stories from her practice to unpack the effects of sexism in its many guises. Going beyond "girl power" and full of smart, constructive ways to help girls make sense of things, it includes
• How to talk about misogyny, gender stereotyping, objectification, and consent—at different ages
• Strategies for fine-tuning our daughters’ natural “sexism detectors” and safeguarding their self-esteem
• Ways to help girls spot and contest the microaggressions they face in school, in the media, in relationships, and in public
• How to recognize and combat sexism in our own parenting
We can’t shield our daughters from gender bias and sexism, but we can make sure they are prepared to handle it. Sexism & Sensibility is an eye-opening and essential resource for proactive parenting.”
