Fighting for girls : new perspectives on gender and violence / edited by Meda Chesney-Lind and Nikki Jones.
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- ISBN: 9781438432939 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1438432933 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781438432946 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1438432941 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: x, 266 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, c2010.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | pt. I. Real trends in female violence: getting tough on girls. 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 -- pt. II. Girls' violence: institutional contexts and concerns. The gendering of violence in intimate relationships: how violence makes sex less safe for girls / Melissa E. Dichter, Julie A. Cederbaum, and Anne M. 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 -- pt. III. Girls' violence: explanations and implications. "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 -- Moral panics, violence, and the policing of girls: reasserting patriarchal control in the new millennium / Walter S. DeKeseredy. |
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Fighting for Girls : New Perspectives on Gender and Violence
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Fighting for Girls : New Perspectives on Gender and Violence
Meda Chesney-Lind is Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her many books include Beyond Bad Girls: Gender, Violence, and Hype (coauthored with Kacherine Irwin); The Female Offender: Girls, Women, and Crime, Second Edition (co-authored with Lisa Pasko); and Girls, Delinquency, and Juvenile Justice, Third Edition (coauthored with Randall G. Shelden). Nikki Jones is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Between Good and Ghetto: African American Girls and Inner City Violence.