Abigail Shrier is a writer for the Wall Street Journal. She holds an A.B. from Columbia College, where she received the Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship; a BPhil from the University of Oxford; and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
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Land, a perilous place where large numbers of teenage girls come to
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'In Irreversible Damage, Abigail Shrier provides a
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adolescent and child psychologist and chair of the DSM-5 Work Group
on Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders
'A work brimming with compassion for a vulnerable subset of our
population: teenage girls. It is a work that makes you want to keep
reading because it is accessible, lucid and compelling. A must-read
for all those who care about the lot of our girls and women'
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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