Rachel Simmons is the author of The New York Times bestseller Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls. Simmons is a Vassar College graduate who has worked for Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and New York's senior Senator, Charles E. Schumer. She won a Rhodes Scholarship from New York and attended Oxford University, where she began studying female aggression. Simmons is a pioneer in the exploration of schoolgirl cruelty and treats the subject in a thorough and illuminating manner. Over the course of a year, she spoke to 300 girls from 10 schools across the US, some with middle-class white student populations, others with students of various races and from different socioeconomic backgrounds. Odd Girl Out is both an exposé and instruction manual for treating girls' aggression. As such, it treats its subject with both clinical objectivity and experiential empathy.
Simmons relies heavily on her interviews with girls and other research, but she intersperses enough of her own personal anecdotes to make the book striking for both its intellectual and emotional accuracy. Also the author of Odd Girl Speaks Out: Girls Write about Bullies, Cliques, Popularity and Jealousy, Simmons's latest book is The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence. Simmons is the founding director of the Girls Leadership Institute and serves as a consultant to schools and organizations all over the world. Odd Girl Out has been translated into ten languages and was adapted into a highly acclaimed Lifetime movie. In the fall of 2008, Simmons became Scholar-in-Residence at Miss Hall's School, a nationally recognized boarding and day school for girls in Massachusetts, where she teaches and conducts independent research with the Girls' Leadership Project.
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