@article{1479887,
      recid = {1479887},
      author = {Ness, Cindy D., },
      title = {Why Girls Fight : Female Youth Violence in the Inner City  /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {In low-income U.S. cities, street fights between teenage  girls are common. These fights take place at school, on  street corners, or in parks, when one girl provokes another  to the point that she must either "step up" or be labeled a  "punk." Typically, when girls engage in violence that is  not strictly self-defense, they are labeled "delinquent,"  their actions taken as a sign of emotional pathology.  However, in Why Girls Fight, Cindy D. Ness demonstrates  that in poor urban areas this kind of street fighting is  seen as a normal part of girlhood and a necessary way to  earn respect among peers, as well as a way for girls to  attain a sense of mastery and self-esteem in a social  setting where legal opportunities for achievement are not  otherwise easily available. Ness spent almost two years in  west and northeast Philadelphia to get a sense of how  teenage girls experience inflicting physical harm and the  meanings they assign to it. While most existing work on  girls' violence deals exclusively with gangs, Ness sheds  new light on the everyday street fighting of urban girls,  arguing that different cultural standards associated with  race and class influence the relationship that girls have  to physical aggression.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479887},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814758403.001.0001},
}