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Originally published in hardcover as
My Girl, this book offers an honest portrayal of author Karen Stabiner’s relationship with her daughter — complete with its difficulties and its rewards. When it comes to adolescent girls, the media is well known for rehashing issues such as eating disorders, depression, promiscuity, low self-esteem, and fights with parents. In
Reclaiming Our Daughters, Karen seeks to not only dispel the insidiousness of these messages, but attempts to equip her own daughter, Sarah, with positive, feminist values.
Karen avoids painting a glowing, one-sided picture of adolescence. Reclaiming Our Daughters revisits the age old topic of mother-daughter relationships, but with acute realism, where Karen speaks to her personal struggles as a mother and sheds light on that bumpy road from sixth to ninth grade rather than sensationalizing the teenage experience. You’ll find this book both supportive and encouraging, genuine and uplifting, from a mother who cares about providing our daughters with the skills they need to become successful, smart, strong and independent-minded women.
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Reclaiming Our Daughters offers a fresh and long-needed perspective on pre-teen and teen girls, one that finally brings a message of hope and optimism about girls today.
Part memoir, part sociological examination, Karen Stabiner observes her daughter, Sarah, as she navigates her critical pre-teen years, a time when girls become adolescents and are rumored to become increasingly difficult and alienated. However, unlike most writing on the subject, Stabiner presents a well-rounded account of parenting a coming-of-age girl. She writes eloquently about societal pressures on girls and of her determination to be her daughter's advocate. This mother-daughter relationship is generally warm and close, though when it's difficult, as it inevitably is at times, Stabiner writes honestly about the challenges. In doing so, she unravels the bad-girl stereotypes we've all believed in for too long.
Synopsis
Reclaiming Our Daughters (previously published as My Girl) offers a fresh and long-needed perspective on pre-teen and teen girls, one that finally brings a message of hope and optimism about girls today.
Part memoir, part sociological examination, Karen Stabiner observes her daughter, Sarah, as she navigates her critical pre-teen years, a time when girls become adolescents and are rumored to become increasingly difficult and alienated. However, unlike most writing on the subject, Stabiner presents a well-rounded account of parenting a coming-of-age girl. She writes eloquently about societal pressures on girls and of her determination to be her daughter's advocate. This mother-daughter relationship is generally warm and close, though when it's difficult, as it inevitably is at times, Stabiner writes honestly about the challenges. In doing so, she unravels the bad-girl stereotypes weve all believed in for too long.
Reclaiming Our Daughters (previously published as My Girl) is both supportive and encouraging, written by a mother who cares about lifting our daughters up and providing them with the skills they need to become successful, strong, independent-minded women.