Fighting for girls : new perspectives on gender and violence / edited by Meda Chesney-Lind and Nikki Jones.

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TextSeries: SUNY series in women, crime, and criminologyPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (x, 266 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781441674159
1441674152
9781438432953
143843295X

Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Fighting for girls.DDC classification:

364.36082/0973 22

LOC classification:

HV9104 .F54 2010eb

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EBSCOhost

Contents:

Introduction / Meda Chesney-Lind and Nikki Jones -- Have "girls gone wild"? / Mike Males -- Criminalizing assault : do age and gender matter? / Eve S. Buzawa and David Hirschel -- Jailing 'bad' girls : girls' violence and trends in female incarceration / Meda Chesney-Lind -- The gendering of violence in intimate relationships : how violence makes sex less safe for girls / Melissa Dichter, Julie Cederbaum, and Anne Teitelman -- Policing girlhood? Relational aggression and violence prevention / Meda Chesney-Lind, Merry Morash, and Katherine Irwin -- "I don't know if you consider that as violence" : using attachment theory to understand girls' perspectives on violence / Judith A. Ryder -- Reducing aggressive behavior in adolescent girls by attending to school climate / Sibylle Artz and Diana Nicholson -- Negotiations of the living space : life in the group home for girls who use violence / Marion Brown -- "It's about being a survivor" : African American girls, gender, and the context of inner city violence / Nikki Jones -- The importance of context in the production of older girls' violence : implications for the focus of interventions / Merry Morash, Suyeon Park, and Jung Mi Kim -- Epilogue.

Summary: Have girls really gone wild? Despite the media fascination with "bad girls," facts beyond the hype have remained unclear. Fighting for Girls focuses on these facts, and using the best data available about actual trends in girls' uses of violence, the scholars here find that by virtually any measure, incidents of girls violence are going down, not up. Additionally, rather than attributing gril's violence to personality or to girls becoming more like boys, the contributors examine the contexts that produce violence in girls, demonstrating how addressing the unique problems that confront girls in dating relationships, families, school hallways and classrooms, and in distressed urban neighborhoods can help reduce girls' use of violence. Often including girls' own voices, contributors illustrate why girls use violence in certain situations, encouraging us to pay attention to trauma in the girls pasts, as well as how violence becomes a tool for surviving toxic families, deteriorated neighborhoods, and neglectful schools.Summary: "From a broad range of perspectives and empirical studies, this book addresses a number of important questions central to the study of girls and violence."--Sara Goodkind, University of PittsburgSummary: Meda Chesney-Lind is Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.Summary: Nikki Jones is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. --Book Jacket.

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Have girls really gone wild? Despite the media fascination with "bad girls," facts beyond the hype have remained unclear. Fighting for Girls focuses on these facts, and using the best data available about actual trends in girls' uses of violence, the scholars here find that by virtually any measure, incidents of girls violence are going down, not up. Additionally, rather than attributing gril's violence to personality or to girls becoming more like boys, the contributors examine the contexts that produce violence in girls, demonstrating how addressing the unique problems that confront girls in dating relationships, families, school hallways and classrooms, and in distressed urban neighborhoods can help reduce girls' use of violence. Often including girls' own voices, contributors illustrate why girls use violence in certain situations, encouraging us to pay attention to trauma in the girls pasts, as well as how violence becomes a tool for surviving toxic families, deteriorated neighborhoods, and neglectful schools.

"From a broad range of perspectives and empirical studies, this book addresses a number of important questions central to the study of girls and violence."--Sara Goodkind, University of Pittsburg

Meda Chesney-Lind is Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Nikki Jones is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. --Book Jacket.

English.

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