Sugar And Spice And No Longer Nice

by Deborah Prothrow-Stith; Howard R. Spivak; Foreword by: Janet Reno

• ISBN13: 9780787975715
• ISBN10: 0787975710
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-01
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Deborah Prothrow-Stith, M.D., is associate dean for faculty development and professor of public health practice and founding director of the Division of Public Health Practice at the Harvard University School of Public Health. Prothrow-Stith is a pioneer of the effort in America to understand youth violence as a public health problem—not just a law enforcement problem.

Howard R. Spivak, M.D., is chief of the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine and vice president for community health programs at the New England Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. He is also professor of pediatrics and community health at Tufts University School of Medicine and director of the Tufts University Center for Children.
Prothrow-Stith and Spivak coauthored Murder Is No Accident: Understand and Preventing Youth Violence in America (Jossey-Bass, 2004).

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Janet Reno
Acknowledgments	xiii
Part One: Understanding the Challenge
1. We Have a Problem	3	(20)
2. Hidden Aggression Becomes Outward Violence	23	(16)
3. Facts and Figures	39	(18)
4. Risk Factors and Protective Factors	57	(20)
5. Feminization of the Superhero	77	(18)
Part Two: Taking On the Challenge
6. Tips for Parents	95	(24)
7. Tips for Teachers and Schools	119	(20)
8. What Communities Can Do	139	(12)
9. A Call to Action	151	(10)
Notes	161	(8)
Resources	169	(6)
About the Authors	175	(2)
Index	177