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A Must for Working Women.......2006-12-03
This book is great. It focuses on what women do in the workplace that underminds thier career. It also talks about how you should act. It's a great book for women working in a corperate jungle. It's a little hard to read at times, and she focuses on her life experiences in the magazine industry. Therefore, some of the things she talks about don't relate well to my field. I'm sure reading this book will help me in my career.
Highly valuable book, even if you're not a self-help type.......2006-10-05
I was just out of college when my friend's mother gave me this book. My friend and I rolled our eyes - we were *definitely* not self-help-book readers. I still am not. But many times over the past ten years I have referenced this book in conversations with friends. I have found myself applying many of the tips that Ms. White provides. You don't have to be a hyper-ambitious, ladder-climbing corporate professional to get something out of this book. Among the tenets that have stood out to me over the years are:
-Don't always need to be liked
-Don't smile too easily
-Don't apologize too quickly
-Don't clean up after other colleagues (especially men)
-Don't be a perfectionist at the expense of innovative thinking or getting things done
Simply the notion that men and women (in broad strokes, at least) behave differently and are treated differently in the workplace was a novel idea to me, coming out of a liberal arts college during the mid-1990s. Reading this book gave me an awareness that everyone needs. Obviously, no one book will apply perfectly to each of us, so you can't go looking for that. But do look to this book for many useful ways of seeing the professional world and your own role in it.
Enjoyed, learned but read it all with a grain of salt!.......2006-06-10
I have never believed, or wanted to believe, in the feminist views of the world. I like to believe that if we focus on results, deliverables, and excellent performance and good merit, we will indeed get ahead - man or woman - in corporate america. Reading this book however did have certain advice in handling some situations that only arise for women in the workplace. Not every bit of advice or circumstance applies to all of us, but overall, this was a very good read, I took bits and pieces of advice from Kate and really did enjoy her stories and her candid sharing of the experience she had been through. I really do recommend it to everyone - not just women. It's good to be aware of our ingrained beliefs and learn to let go of them and face life with a much more open mind.
People Pleasing is not the way to go.......2006-06-01
This is the golden advice: people pleasing is distinct from delivering credible results. In the world of world it is being respected that wins the day. Being liked is a matter of fickleness and not based on results. Results that are measured are all that matters.
Not for "Every Working Woman".......2006-05-24
This book applies to women who are in leadership positions, which I am not, so I despise the title "Nine Secrets Every Working Woman Must Know". It's misleading. I'm currently reading this book and have only found a small paragraph that applies to "every working woman." Given the title, I thought the book would give helpful tips on getting ahead for the average working woman, but it doesn't. Needless to say, it didn't do me much good for where I am currently in my career.
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Let girls be girls, counsels psychologist Sharon Lamb in her provocative book The Secret Lives of Girls. "I want to be able to free girls and women to take off the shimmering costume of a femininity that equals goodness--to acknowledge all aspects of being human," she writes.
Reporting on 125 interviews with girls and women, Lamb details and normalizes the sexual play and anger expressed in the privacy of girls' bedrooms and playhouses. The result is a groundbreaking and guilt-free guide for parents and teachers to assist girls in accepting their sexual and aggressive feelings. Her portraits of girls' exuberant sexuality ("practice kissing," "I'll show you mine") and spontaneous anger (not-so-dear diary, pranks, and "cutting down") are fresh and fascinating. One particularly memorable chapter describes games of "naked Barbie" and applauds the lessons learned about becoming a sexual person rather than just a desired object.
Lamb's observations are so sharp that readers may wish the chapters offering her smart suggestions for change were longer. Some readers may be surprised and others unsettled by the vivid scenarios Lamb portrays. Still, by listening to girls and telling their stories without judgment, Lamb invites them to stop living a double life that ignores their anger and sexual feelings. She provides parents and teachers with a powerful and practical model of how to understand and nurture the hidden and genuine strengths of every girl. --Barbara Mackoff
Book Description
From playground games of "chase and kiss" to rough-and-tumble soccer games, from slumber party stripteases to romantic fantasies behind closed doors, author Sharon Lamb coaxes out girls' true stories with uncommon sensitivity and focus. The result of more than 125 fascinating interviews with pre-teens, teenagers, and adult women, The Secret Lives of Girls reveals the ways that girls use their minds and bodies for private sexual play, mischief, and hidden aggression.
To truly understand what little girls are made of, Lamb suggests, we must listen not only to what they say to us but also to what they don't say, taking into account their hidden selves and the lives that we adults don't see. Yes, girls are known to be "good," but they manage to act out in decidedly ungirlish ways and, despite many parents' fears, be the better for it. What's most remarkable about Lamb's conclusions is that we needn't join the chorus of voices deploring a "girl-poisoning" culture for damaging our daughters. Instead, Lamb finds reason to celebrate girls' resilience in the face of pressures to conform -- and she does it by listening to them and to the women they have become. The Secret Lives of Girls explores such in-depth key issues as:
Using aggression wisely -- when girls need to walk away or to settle verbally, and when to fight. Girls needn't grow up afraid of their own toughness and power.
Building self-esteem, self-respect, and the ambition to achieve -- anger and aggressive feelings can be the impetus for creative and productive work. Eighty percent of female executives of Fortune 500 companies identify as having been tomboys.
Participating in highly physical sports -- karate or boxing, or team sports like soccer -- teaches girls to feel that their bodies are competent, and that they deserve to take up space.
Recognizing daughters as sexual beings -- their love of sexy dress-up, their yearning to understand their bodies and their sensual desires.
Accepting some kinds of sexual play -- teaching the difference between fun and bullying; setting a positive and supportive tone from birth through the grade school years.
From tomboys like "Julia," who runs with the boys in the streets of New York to "Abby," who led a "naked parade," the girls who share their stories here describe a hidden but fascinating world made up of more than girlish innocence. The Secret Lives of Girls is a welcome and much-needed addition to the literature on girls' lives and culture. It celebrates girls' hidden strengths, play, and needs, and opens a door for parents that can teach them how to understand their daughters better and help them grow.
Customer Reviews:
A fascinating look at young woman in today society........2005-06-11
Sharon Lambs look into the development of today's modern woman is a fascinating account of the problems that many woman face in today's society. It does not in the same league as Rachel Simmons's ground breaking "Odd Girl Out" but it's a satisfying look into womanhood and the impact that we hold to each other.
Worth a look.
Groundbreaking Look at Normal Girls' Sexual Play.......2004-07-28
Read this wonderful book!! The Secret Lives of Girls has such an important message for parents, for society, and for helping professionals: Girls'healthy sexual curiousity starts early. Let's not be scared of girl's sexual curiousity and sexual play, because it forms the bedrock of adult women's ability to experience a feeling of sexual agency and sexual pleasure.
This book is based on interviews with 122 women (aged l8 to 70) and girls (aged 6 to 18) of very diverse ethnic backgrounds. Dr. Lamb is to be commended for her commitment to research which reflects the lives of women from all backgrounds. The narratives are compelling, powerful and enlightening--a marvelous read.
If you are looking for a simplistic, black and white view of sexuality, this book is not for you. The first part of the book, which is about two-thirds of the book, is devoted to stories of girls' secret world of sexual play and desire. The stories were quite detailed, and for me, quite magical. Lamb discovered that there was no age where girls did not have their own wishes for sexual experimentation, no period of latency.
She also discussed sexual abuse, with an important focus on how an experience can be abusive without being harmful and with examples of times where deciding whether an experience was abusive or not was far from a black and white determination.
Her discussion of sexual abuse is brave, and respectful. I disagree with another reviewer, who felt she minimized it.
If you, yourself, feel guilty about some of your childhood sex play, The Secret Lives of Girls will help you accept the normalcy of your experience. This is the most specific --and magical--discussion I have ever read of of healthy sexual experimentation among children. Some examples were unsurprising, like highly sexualized Barbie play. Others, however, were idiosyncratic, like a group game where one girl played dead and was arranged in a provocative position, and then the other children came into the room and talked about how beautiful she looked. This girl experienced the sexual thrill of being an erotic object in a very safe way.
So many girls are punished by their mothers or fathers for expressing sexual curiosity, even if all they want to know is What is a tampax? or What a kiss? Harsh or fearful parental reaction leaves them feeling that having any sexual feelings, thoughts, or questions makes them bad or dirty.
These lucky, normal girls whose stories are reported in The Secret Lives of Girls will grow up and have memories of their own evolving sexuality as an important part of who they are. They experienced themselves as having sexual feelings, sexual urges, sexual dreams.They did not have sexuality thrust upon them, as defined by another --usually male-- person, or by a society that increasingly tells girls that they must look impossibly perfect to be seen as sexual.
I have not read another book I like better on girls' developing sexuality, and I'm a diplomate in sex therapy, an author, and an expert in the development of healthy sexuality (...).
If you are curious about the development of girls into women, if you want to live in a society where women feel free to experience sexual pleasure, if you're a woman who wants to understand her own sexuality better, or if you want to be a better parent, read this book.
Aline P. Zoldbrod Ph.D.
Boston, Massachusetts
Girls young and old need to read this book.......2004-02-12
Ah yes, you may be thinking, another femenist book about how girls get the short end of the stick when it comes to sexuality and agressive behavior. But lo! That's not (entirely) what you'll find here. Yes, she does talk about how girls are more repressed than boys, especially in the agression section of the book, but mostly it's a book about realizing that girls take part in sex play and aggression, too. In many places it's a celebration of this fact, especially as Ms. Lamb reveals to the women she interviews and the readers that we are in fact "normal." The disapointment I have in this book is her lack of discussing what as an adolescent educator I should do now with this knowledge. Still an excelent read for women or for anyone in charge of raising one.
This book was disappointing..........2003-11-13
I was really looking forward to reading this book, but was disappointed both by the content and the writing. Much of the book is made up of quotes from the women that Lamb interviewed, and most of the rest of the book seems to be Lamb's own clinical interpretation of these statements. I found her clinical opinions (e.g., something about believing it is ok for girls to shut the door of the bedroom and talk to each other with the lips of their vaginas) annoying and uninformed. In my estimation, the book mentioned, but underplayed the connection between early sexuality and previous or on-going sexual abuse... sure, it may be acceptable for girls to experiment sexually with each other, but it is the job of parents and psychologists to ensure that these behaviors did not stem from abuse. No, we don't want to raise women who are ashamed of their sexuality, but turning our backs on these behaviors is not always prudent, and may even be viewed as neglectful. I would also have found this book more useful if Lamb's findings had been integrated into other published research more often than into her own personal views.
Love your daughter? READ THIS BOOK!.......2002-05-17
Sharon Lamb has written the book that amazingly has not been written up to now. Why this is so is a separate intriguing question that I answered in my own discomfort as I read Sharon's work: Our culture is still very much locked into artificially imposed views of female sexuality and aggression, and our daughters still pay the price. As an Irish-Catholic dad, I can predict that many parents will be so shocked in the first five minutes of this reading that they will angrily toss SECRET LIVES back on the shelf. If you love your daughter, don't do this. You owe her the truths about herself, truths that we may find hard to accept. Read this, and learn, especially if it makes you uneasy. Love your kid that much.
Book Description
In this powerful book, prominent Christian speaker and TV personality Tammy Maltby gets specific about the brokenness and pain in her own life and the lives of other "good Christian girls." This book is not a lurid expose, but an honest and courageous look at the secrets that often lurk behind a "victorious" Christian façade-secrets that range from feelings of inadequacy to sexual sins, shopping addictions and thoughts of suicide. It is also a passionate testimony to the Lord's eagerness to cleanse and heal those who turn to Him. And it is a fervent appeal to God's people to own up to the sin, brokenness and shame in our midst and to extend to each other the same persistent, healing grace that Jesus extends to us.
Customer Reviews:
"Confessions" is good for the soul.......2007-04-30
Tammy is awake to what others have buried their heads in the sand to: we're all broken inside, and our journey to wholeness comes in sharing our stories with one another. Why is it that we struggle so with this?
Why does it seem like Christians are the last ones in on the joke: we claim to love others, yet are known to our neighbors as hypocrites? Motivated more by guilt and shame than by love, we hide our hurts from everyone including ourselves. It's a broken way to live and it certainly isn't Jesus' way.
And that's why we need more books like "Confessions" as an invitation to others that says not only is it safe to be vulnerable, but that is the only way to health, and in fact, is the only way to be a true disciple of Jesus. In "Confessions" you'll recognize parts of yourself and you'll see where perhaps you still need healing and how that healing can begin.
If you're like the great thundering herd of Christians that, lost in the dust and the noise of others around you, struggle to voice the broken parts of your story, you need this book as a catalyst to your healing and growth. The paradox is that by confessing your humanity to others, Christ, the God-man, is formed in you. Read "Confessions" and weep - with joy and recognition.
Beautiful and Refreshing.......2007-04-28
I would highly recommend this book. The author Tammy Maltby lays out her life on paper so candidly and honestly. She gives so much inspiration to women out there who are facing the same issues. Trying to be the perfect christian girl and yet faced with depression, abuse, addictions and suicide. Tammy shares what most of us good christian girls would be too ashamed to ever talk about. Those of us who hide in shame on church pews, being paralyzed emotionally because of sin and past regrets. Tammy lays out steps in order to overcome and be victorious. This book is scriptural and guided by bible truths and the promises of God. She writes about how we should step out in faith, pray, and and know that God wants more for us than what we want for ourselves. This book is for any women who may be living in emotional or physical bondage or in some situation that prevents you from living a peaceful life due to circumstances. This book will bless your life with all the tools you need to find peace and understanding. You will learn how to not suffer in silence and get out of the personal prison you've been living in. Most importantly, Tammy Maltby will give you the help you need through her own personal circumstances and how we can move forward to the life that Christ so lovingly wants us to have. This book will bring you the freedom you've been searching for.
Transparently Riveting.......2007-04-17
Confessions of a Good Christian Girl: the Secrets Women Keep and the Grace That Saves Them is powerful...and seasoned with grace. It's filled with wonderful quotes and more importantly, points to the one who can heal all of our brokenness. Many times throughout reading, I thought...Oh that is powerful...Oh that ministers healing...It's the kindness of God that leads us to repentance and it's the brave woman of God, willing to be transparent, that ministers to the broken. I know the darkest hours of my life exposed the tenderness of God the most. Though I never would wish a divorce on anyone...for me it proved to be the time God revealed His grace most powerfully. I felt as though I committed the ultimate sin. It broke my self-will and my belief that somehow I might earn God's love...As I read your book I realized you learned the same thing and it encouraged me. No matter how "good" we are we can never merit God's love or our salvation. That's the beauty of Christianity. We don't need to have all the answers or be perfect because God loves us no matter what. His grace is for every area of our life...not just our salvation. He equips and empowers us to "be" for Him. Each of my dark seasons produced more of Christ character and caused me to love others more unconditionally. He loves us...because He chose to...and nothing can change that.
Finally.......2007-03-22
When I first became a Christian at age 22, I devoured every possible Christian book, I needed all the direction and information I could get! After a while, I got burned out, so I took a break from them ~ for years.... However, this book has brought me back in a big way. It is refreshing, honest, edgy, real, hopeful and different. If you are a women who doesn't feel she fits in to the classic mold, but one who feels she has to put on a smiley face and hide her real pain and confusion, then be encouraged with this book - you will find women just like you, who aren't perfect, but find the hope and love of Jesus. Tammy, thanks for writing a book that's filled a much needed void....Bravo
raw and real.......2007-03-13
I started this book at 9 am on a saturday, and could not put it down,
thank God for a real book about real women, we start out with the biggest dreams and best of intentions, but life can be so much more challangeing than we ever imagine, this book gives you hope for healing in the most difficult of circumstances that you never thought would be a part of the dreams you have for your live,
thank you to Tammy and everyone that told their story in this book...it was refreshing and beatuiful...a must read for all women..
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In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their South Carolina peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unclear circumstances, Lily accidentally shot and killed her mother. All Lily has left of Deborah is a strange image of a Black Madonna, with the words "Tiburon, South Carolina" scrawled on the back. The search for a mother, and the need to mother oneself, are crucial elements in this well-written coming-of-age story set in the early 1960s against a background of racial violence and unrest. When Lily's beloved nanny, Rosaleen, manages to insult a group of angry white men on her way to register to vote and has to skip town, Lily takes the opportunity to go with her, fleeing to the only place she can think of--Tiburon, South Carolina--determined to find out more about her dead mother. Although the plot threads are too neatly trimmed, The Secret Life of Bees is a carefully crafted novel with an inspired depiction of character. The legend of the Black Madonna and the brave, kind, peculiar women who perpetuate Lily's story dominate the second half of the book, placing Kidd's debut novel squarely in the honored tradition of the Southern Gothic. --Regina Marler
Book Description
"The bees came the summer of 1964, the summer I turned fourteen and my life went spinning off into a whole new orbit, and I mean whole new orbit. Looking back on it now, I want to say the bees were sent to me. I want to say they showed up like the angel Gabriel appearing to the Virgin Mary, setting events in motion I could never have guessed." So begins the story of Lily Melissa Owens, a plucky girl, rich in humor despite heart wrenching circumstances. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her harsh, unyielding father, her entire life has been shaped around one devastating, though blurred, memory- the afternoon her mother was killed. Four at the time, she remembers innocently picking up the gun. And, she has her father's eyewitness account of the gun firing. People remind her it was an accident, yet she's inhabited by a torturous guilt. Lily's only real companion is Rosaleen, a tender, but fierce-hearted black woman who cooks, cleans and acts as her "stand-in mother."
South Carolina in 1964 is a place and time of seething racial divides. When violence explodes one summer afternoon, and Rosaleen is arrested and beaten, Lily is desperate, not only to save Rosaleen, but to flee a life she can no longer endure. Calling upon her colorful wits and uncommon daring, she breaks Rosaleen out of jail and the two of them take off, runaway-fugitives conjoined in an escape that quickly turns into Lily's quest for the truth about her mother's life.
Following a trail left ten years earlier, Lily and Rosaleen end up in the home of three bee-keeping sisters. No ordinary women, the sisters revere a Black Madonna and tend a unique brand of female spirituality that reaches back to the time of slavery. As Lily's life becomes deeply entwined with theirs, she is irrevocably altered. In a mesmerizing world of bees and honey, amid the strength and power of wise women, Lily journeys through painful secrets and shattering betrayals, finding her way to the single thing her heart longs for most.
Customer Reviews:
Exceptional.......2007-10-08
The novel is very well written and not only historical but highlights emotions and relationships. A good read
One of my favorite books!.......2007-10-04
This is one of the best books I've read in a long, long time! Loved it, so I read it s-l-o-w!
So cute!.......2007-09-28
Great book, easy read, hard to put down. The way the author writes keeps you interested and wanting to read more.
All my friends get this audio book from me.......2007-09-26
I was recommended this book by a dear friend when I was going through some hard times in my life. I love this book and the story told. I have order this book many times for friends and relatives as a lesson in the "Secret Life of Bees" and life.
Great Read.......2007-09-19
This book was so good I passed it on to my daughter. It was so well written, I don't usually get emotional about a book, but I laughed & cried reading this. Highly recommend.
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Secret Power to Treasures, Purity, and a Good Complexion: A Personal Bible Study on the Book of Colossians (invert / Secret Power Bible Studies for Girls)
Susie Shellenberger
Manufacturer: Zondervan/Youth Specialties
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Book Description
Students find themselves in a culture that asks them to blend their faiths with competing morals. This study of Colossians outlines the most essential Christian beliefs and gives young women the tools to focus on Jesus first, last, and always. Each lesson can be completed alone, with a friend, or in a group—and small sections allow students to move at their own pace.
Customer Reviews:
A true tooth of wisdom.......2005-11-19
CAUTION contains SPOILERS
This is the story of a man who goes to find his lost love, and find out why she was lost.
The girl ran away ten years ago, for reasons unknown to the hero. The Heroine has several disturbing flashbacks to what made her run away, but doesn't come truly clean til the end of the story.
The Hero, upon hearing what his true love did that turned her own life upside down acts just as one would expect. He turns away from her. But, after reflection, he also grows up and learns a lesson.
There is a true maturity to the relationship of these characters that one doesn't find often in such a short story. I found myself uncomfortable with the situation, and how truly human the Heroine was. But it was realistic in a way, again, many romances aren't.
I really enjoyed it. BUT it's part of a series. I almost always subtract a star for that - because there are dangling ends or pieces of information that you can only get if you read the rest of the series. I think that's a cheap trick. Worth reading this part of the series, tho.
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Just Us Girls: Secrets to Feeling Good About Yourself, Inside and Out (A Sunscreen Book)
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Sunscreen(tm) A new series that offers good advice in an appealing, portable package
Written with candor and humor, the Sunscreen series offers preteens and teens advice on the topics that interest them most in a compact, highly illustrated paperback that fits conveniently in a purse, backpack, or messenger bag. Not too glib and not overly serious, the Sunscreen books deliver just the right information, and the freedom and protection that come with it.
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Secret Lives: What Good Girls Really Do--Sex Play, Aggression, and Their Guilt
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An interesting and intriguing novel..........1999-07-06
I thought this book was great. The story was interesting and enthraling, with a deep meaning. The characters were deep, the plot thick and fast and overall I thought it was a wonderful novel. Just read it!
Customer Reviews:
Insightful!.......2002-03-21
Ideas and messages spread through human communities in the same way that viruses jump from person to person and group to group. This premise - that social trends saturate populations like contagious epidemics - is an intriguing foundation for a book, and indeed, Malcolm Gladwell's examination of the theme is at times a fascinating read. The book is at its best when applying the epidemic theory to marketing by attempting to identify the key individuals that help transmit a trend, or for that matter, a disease. However, Gladwell never quite succeeds in knitting these observations into a cogent and coherent argument. The book reads like a set of notes - some of which come off as unnecessary digressions. But on the basis of those sections that truly illuminate the cycle of trend dissemination, we from getAbstract recommend this book to marketing, advertising and promotional executives.
This Book.......2000-09-16
This changed my life, as cliche as that sounds, it did. Kate White lays out lots of common sense and things I 'knew,' but never put together before. A friend gave me this book when I worked for a boss just like Richard (Machiabelly)from Survivor. I learned to respect myself, prioritize, make a plan and forge ahead. Old habits of self-sabatogue fell away as I started to make my own rules and follow them. I have just been tapped by a woman acquaintance to be on her graduate shcool committee, and I am buying her a copy of this!
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