Fighting for girls : new perspectives on gender and violence / edited by Meda Chesney-Lind and Nikki Jones.
Chesney-Lind, Meda.; Jones, Nikki, 1975-
2010
HV9104 .F54 2010 (Mapit)
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Title
Fighting for girls : new perspectives on gender and violence / edited by Meda Chesney-Lind and Nikki Jones.
ISBN
9781438432946 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1438432941 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781438432939
1438432933
Publication Details
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2010.
Language
English
Description
x, 266 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Call Number
HV9104 .F54 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.36082/0973
Summary
Synopsis: 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 available, incidents of girls' violence are going down, not up. Additionally, rather than attributing girls violence to personality or to girls becoming "more like boys," Fighting for Girls focuses on 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 to the volume 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 girls use to survive toxic families, deteriorated neighborhoods, and neglectful schools.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Chesney-Lind, Meda.
Jones, Nikki, 1975-
Series
SUNY series in women, crime, and criminology.
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List of tables and figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction / Meda Chesney-Lind and Nikki Jones
Part 1: Real Trends In Female Violence: Getting Tough On Girls
1: Have "girls gone wild"? / Mike Males
2: Criminalizing assault: do age and gender matter? / Eve S Buzawa and David Hirschel
3: Jailing 'bad' girls: girls' violence and trends in female incarceration / Meda Chesney-Lind
Part 2: Girls' Violence: Institutional Contexts And Concerns
4: Gendering of violence in intimate relationships: how violence makes sex less safe for girls / Melissa E Dichter, Julie A Cederbaum, and Anne M Teitelman
5: Policing girlhood? Relational aggression and violence prevention / Meda Chesney-Lind, Merry Morash, and Katherine Irwin
6: I don't know if you consider that as violence": using attachment theory to understand girls' perspectives on violence / Judith A Ryder
7: Reducing aggressive behavior in adolescent girls by attending to school climate / Sibylle Artz and Diana Nicholson
8: Negotiations of the living space: life in the group home for girls who use violence / Marion Brown
Part 3: Girls' Violence: Explanations And Implications
9: It's about being a survivor: African American girls, gender, and the context of inner city violence / Nikki Jones
10: 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: Moral panics, violence, and the policing of girls: reasserting patriarchal control in the new millennium / Walter S DeKeseredy
About the contributors
Index.

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