Combining careful research with personal experience, sociologist and mother-of-three, McMinn challenges parents, teachers, churches, and communities to create a social environment that nurtures strong, confident girls. She offers a thoughtful look at gender differences and patterns that limit women and suggests strategies for cultivating godliness, wisdom, virtue, and a healthy self-image in your daughters.
Today's culture offers broadening opportunities for women; yet it still pressures them to fit long-standing stereotypes. McMinn challenges parents, teachers, churches, and civic communities to create a social environment that nurtures strong, confident girls. Combining careful research with personal experience, McMinn takes a thoughtful look at gender differences and patterns limiting women's full participation in society. She discusses what it means to raise strong daughters made in the image of God and covers the various aspects of strength--confidence, interdependence, voice, and self-image.
Lisa Graham McMinn is associate professor of sociology at George Fox University, where much of her teaching and work with students intersects with the issues she raises in Growing Strong Daughters. McMinn lives in Oregon.
