Research Catalog

Title

Smart girls two : a new psychology of girls, women, and giftedness / Barbara Kerr.

Author

Kerr, Barbara A.

Publication

Dayton, Ohio : Ohio Psychology Press, c1994.

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Description

xviii, 270 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Why do talented, gifted girls so often fail to realize their potential as they reach adolescence and adulthood? This outstanding book explores this question and offers practical advice to parents, teachers, and policy-makers about ways to help gifted girls continue to grow and succeed.

Alternative Title

Smart girls 2

Subject

• Gifted girls
• Gifted women
• Gifted women > Longitudinal studies
• Gifted women > Biography
• Gifted women > Employment
• Self-actualization (Psychology)
• Achievement motivation in women > Case studies
• Success > Case studies

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Case studies
• Longitudinal studies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The leaders of tomorrow: a retelling -- Looking for the leaders of tomorrow -- Twenty years after -- Eminent women -- Major works and what they tell us -- Bright beginnings: the gifted girl -- The adolsecence of the gifted girl -- Gifted college women -- Barriers to achievement -- Gifted minority girls and women -- Girls and women with specific extraordinary talents -- Is self-actualization optional? -- Programs which have stood the test of time -- Guiding gifted girls -- Conclusion.

ISBN

0910707251 :

LCCN

^^^94045864^//r95

OCLC

• 31816235
• SCSB-10738475

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library