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Noted: Girls could be girls.

by CAROLYN MOYNIHAN [MercatorNet] – Sexual identity, the cyberbubble, obsessions, environmental toxins: these are the four factors driving the current crisis for girls that [Leonard] Sax describes in his latest book, Girls on the Edge. It could just as easily have been called Girls On The Surface, because that is the cumulative effect of the risks he is concerned about: girls focused on how they look, on performance, on what they do rather than who they are; girls insatiable for the next bit of gossip or the next A grade, and inconsolable when they meet with setbacks and failures.

That grim scenario represents only half the book, however; the other half is about solutions, and what those solutions have in common is the importance of gender — one of the most fraught issues of our age, and one on which Sax definitively took a stand when he helped found the National Association for Single Sex Education back in 2002.

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