Rough Guide to Girl Stuff

532 Pages·2009·126.799 MB·English

by  Kaz Cooke

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Your full-on guide to the teen years

Your full-on guide to the teen years
CONTENTS
Introduction
1
5
PART 1
CHANGE 2 SKIN
7 34
Understanding the new you Don’t put up with acting up
So what are you in for? 9 The skin on your face 35
Breasts 12 Spots and blackheads 39
Your girly bits 17 Common skin conditions 45
Clear or white stuff 21 Skin colour 46
Your period 22 Skin marks 50
Sweating 52
Piercing and tattoos 54
HAIR
3 60 FOOD
4 70
Cutting, curling, shaving
Sorting out feelings and food
and hairdo misbehaving
What you need 71
Looking after your hair 61
What you don’t need 81
Body hair 69
SHAPE
6 104
MOVE
5 95 One size doesn’t fi t all
Finding the groove Your body shape 105
Your weight 106
Physical activity 96
Not liking your bits 119
Finding your own activity thing 99
Growing out of obsessions 124
Activity problems 106
PART 2
HEAD 7
BRAIN
129
127 Grow a good one
What we know about
the teenage brain 130
Looking after your brain 133
FEELINGS
8 139 DRINKING
Up, down, all around 9 154
Make your own rules
Moods 140
Things you need to know about
Feeling embarrassed 141
alcohol before drinking 155
Feeling angry 143
Feeling anxiety and stress 145 Deciding whether or not to drink 162
Feeling down 148 Being drunk 164
Feeling optimistic and strong 151 Taking control 171
DRUGS 11 CONFIDENCE
10 174
195
Make up your own mind In search of the real cool
Cigarettes 175 Not feeling confi dent 196
Legal drugs 179 Getting confi dent 197
Illegal drugs 181 Who are you? 205
HEART
211
PART 3
FAMILY 13 FRIENDS
12 213 234
Getting on and moving on Good ones, bad ones, and downright enemies
Happy families 214 Good friends 235
Not-so-happy families 221 Changing a friendship 238
When families break up 226 Groups 243
Different family combos 229 Meanness 245
Bullying: way beyond unfriendly 250
SEX
14 LOVE 15 288
262 What goes on, how you feel, and why
When it’s real, what’s the deal Becoming a sexual person 289
Falling in love 264 Sexual touching 291
Hooking up, dating, or going out Deciding whether or not to have sex 294
with someone 268 Going all the way 301
Liking girls: same-sex relationships 274 Safe sex 309
Relationships 278 Contraception 319
Sex and love 327
CARING
16 346
Believe, belong, be you
What people believe in 347
How to change the world 355
PART 4
INFO
SCHOOLWORK
17
TO GO
Getting out from under 345
Homework and study 346
Learning stuff 349
343 Education and careers 356
19 SAVVY
WORK
381
18 363
Because you need to know the inside story
Where’s the money?
Smart surfi ng 382
Looking for a job 364
Personal savvy 385
Applying for a job 366
Abusive relationships 391
The job interview 370
Sexual assault 397
Being a good employee 373
Your rights as a worker 377
20 MIND HEALTH
21
414
BODY Getting your head together
MAINTENANCE Mental health problems 415
Depression 419
401 Severe anxiety 422
Staying healthy
Eating disorders 424
Managing your health 402
Self-harm 429
Girls’ and women’s health 408
Suicide 430
Psychosis and schizophrenia 432
Mental health 434
PREGNANCY MONEY
22 23 450
435
What to do and where to go
Get it, spend it, use it
Being pregnant 436
How to hang onto it 451
Pregnancy termination (abortion) 441
How to spend it and not get into debt 454
Becoming a young mum 445
Adoption 449
SHOPPING CLOTHES &
24 462 25
MAKE-UP
Dodging the rip-offs 473
Marketing 463
Having fun with them
Going shopping 469
Clothes 474
Face 486
THE F WORD
496
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Stay strong, sister
Thanks, feminism 497
Isn’t everything okay now? 498
Acknowledgements Index
507
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Credits and Publishing Information
While every care has been taken in researching and compiling the medical information
in this book, it is in no way intended to replace or supersede professional medical advice.
Neither the author nor the publisher may be held responsible for any action or any claim
howsoever resulting from the use of this book or any information contained in it. Readers must
obtain their own professional medical advice before relying on or otherwise making use of the
medical information contained in this book.
Contact details for organizations and website addresses frequently change:
those included in this book were correct at the time of publication.
All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved below, no part of this
publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted,
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without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the publisher of this book.
Copyright © Kaz Cooke 2007, 2009
Illustrations copyright © Kaz Cooke 2007, 2009
The moral right of the author has been asserted.
Designed by Adam Laszczuk © Penguin Group (Australia)
Kazza font created by Kaz Cooke, digitalised by DiZign Pty Ltd
Typeset in 9/14 pt Stone Serif by Post Pre-press Group/Dan May, Rough Guides
Printed in Singapore by SNP Security Printing
Edited by: Tracy Hopkins and Peter Buckley
Proofreading: Sam Cook
Production:Rebecca Short and Vicky Baldwin
Rough Guides Reference
Editors: Peter Buckley, Tracy Hopkins, Matt Milton, Joe Staines, Ruth Tidball
Director: Andrew Lockett
First published as Girl Stuff by Penguin Group (Australia) 2007
This edition first published May 2009 by Rough Guides Ltd:
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Distributed by the Penguin Group:
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528 pages; includes index
ISBN 978-1-84836-018-1
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
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