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Extract in Chapter 7 from Kim McCabe’s From Daughter to Woman, Robinson 2018. Used by permission.
Section on self-harm in Chapter 10 adapted with permission from the Lifeline Australia website: www.lifeline.org.au/get-help/topics/self-harm
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Source ISBN: 9780008339784
Ebook Edition: May 2019 ISBN: 9780007455676
Version: 2019-04-02
Contents
1 Cover
2 Title Page
3 Copyright
4 Contents
5 A Flight Manual for Your Girl
6 Meet Kaycee and Genevieve
7 Part One: The Five Stages of Girlhood
8 1 Creating a Total Girl
9 2 Right from the Start
10 3 Learning to Explore
11 4 Getting Along with Others
12 5 Finding Her Soul
13 6 Preparing for Adulthood
14 Part Two: Hazards and Helps: The Six Big Risk Areas and How to Navigate Them
15 7 The Rush We’re All In
16 8 Too Sexy Too Soon
17 9 Mean Girls
18 10 Bodies, Weight and Food
19 11 Alcohol and Other Drugs
20 12 Mirror, Mirror on the Screen
21 Part Three: Girls and Their Parents
22 13 Girls and Their Mums
23 14 Girls and Their Dads
24 What Happened to Kaycee?
25 Special Bonus Section: Where Do I Go from Here?
26 Notes
27 Contributors and Acknowledgements
28 Also by Steve Biddulph
29 About the Publisher
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