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BROWN, Lyn Mikel. Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection among Girls. New York: New York University Press, 2005. 271pp. $45.00 (h), $19.00 (p).
In Girlfighting, psychologist and educator Lyn Mikel Brown scrutinizes the way the culture nurtures and reinforces meanness in girls. She argues that the old adage "girls will be girls"-gossipy, competitive, cliquish, backstabbing-and the idea that fighting is part of a developmental stage...