196 pages : 26 cm
Previous edition: [198-]
Includes bibliographical references and index
1. Working with the group -- Establishing the need for women only groups -- Developing community support -- Prepare yourself -- Contacting the group -- Radio and newspaper publicity -- Brochures -- Planning and evaluating a course -- Why is this course being run? -- Where will the course be held? -- Who will be involved in the course? -- When will the course be run? -- What equipment and resources are needed? -- Course planner -- Session planner -- Self-directed learning -- Evaluation -- Working with the group -- 2. Personal skills: issues for young women -- Self concept and self esteem -- Communication skills -- Becoming assertive -- Dealing with conflict -- Decision making -- Priority setting -- Techniques -- Group discussion -- Brainstorming -- Values clarification -- Role play -- 3. Resources -- Background reading -- Reading -- Novels -- 4. Getting it all together -- Sharing expectations -- Evaluation voting -- Unfinished sentences -- Evaluation: field of works -- Evaluation symbol -- Magic box -- And my mother's name is ... -- Name tags -- Moving groups -- Photographs -- Creative introduction -- This is my best friend -- I'd like you to meet -- The things I like about you -- What I like best about me -- Swap shop -- Strengths -- This is me -- Non-verbal lucky dip -- Active listening -- Brag sssion -- Assertive body language -- Put downs -- Resources
5. Growing up female -- A woman's place -- Girls and boys go out to play -- The typical Briton -- The family tree -- Herstory -- The man in the moon -- Women gossip, men talk -- Opposite and unequal -- Why can't a woman? -- Getting it right -- The sins of the mother -- If I was -- Messages -- Women in songs -- 6. A woman's worth -- Random words -- Women in the workforce -- Division of labour brainstorm -- Making changes -- Young women and unemployment -- Women and work -- Breaking in -- Panel interviews -- Equal play -- Just a housewife -- A woman's worth -- In a job I want -- Positive action lucky dip -- 7. Liberating learning -- Guiding lights -- The ideal woman, the ideal man -- That's what the papers say -- Women in the media -- The women's pages -- What girls like, what boys like -- That's what I saw on TV -- School days -- Text books -- I didn't know she existed -- Famous women in history -- 8. Well being and being well -- Women's health brainstorm -- Health web chart -- Women's health -- To be healthy -- Occupational health -- Body size collage -- Body image -- Am I what I eat? -- Fashion makes me sick -- Doctor's visit -- Women in sport -- Sexual harassment: values voting -- Attitudes to rape & sexual harassment -- That's objectional -- Sexual harassment situations -- Hands off -- 9. There's more ways than one -- Life line interviews -- Fifteen years from now -- I want to be like -- Taking a stand -- Communal living -- A living space must be -- I want to live in ... -- Community child care -- Time check -- Decision plan -- Options -- Getting to know you -- A relationship must be -- Happy endings aren't all alike -- A contract for housework -- Saying no -- Conflict fantasy -- What would I do? -- I want to live in -- Community child care -- Time check -- Decision plan -- Options -- Getting to know you -- A relationship must be -- Happy endings aren't all alike -- A contract for housework -- Saying no -- Conflict fantasy -- What would I do?

Szirom, Tricia; Dyson, Sue; Slavin, Hazel

Tricia Szirom and Sue Dyson

Sue Dyson, Tricia Szirom

Bridge Street Books

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

2nd ed. British ed. /, Wisbech, 1990

United Kingdom and Ireland, Ireland

British ed, Wisbech, 1986 or 1987

December 31, 1998

Includes bibliographies and index.

2023-06-28