04445nam 2201117Ia 450 991081777080332120240516124827.00-8147-5907-60-8147-5867-310.18574/9780814759073(CKB)2670000000042031(EBL)865680(OCoLC)779828184(SSID)ssj0000431145(PQKBManifestationID)11293746(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000431145(PQKBWorkID)10456799(PQKB)11334783(StDuBDS)EDZ0001325793(MiAaPQ)EBC865680(OCoLC)662459846(MdBmJHUP)muse4830(DE-B1597)547267(DE-B1597)9780814759073(Au-PeEL)EBL865680(CaPaEBR)ebr10409385(EXLCZ)99267000000004203120100114d2010 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWhy girls fight[electronic resource] female youth violence in the inner city /Cindy D. Ness1st ed.New York New York University Pressc20101 online resource (xiii, 185 pages)Description based upon print version of record.0-8147-5841-X 0-8147-5840-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.The City of Philadelphia and Female Youth Violence --Girls’ Violent Behavior as Viewed from the Streets --The Reasons Girls Give for Fighting --Mothers, Daughters, and the Double-Generation Dynamic --Culture and Neighborhood Institutions.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.Female juvenile delinquentsUnited StatesTeenage girlsPsychologyInner citiesUnited StatesMinoritiesUnited StatesPsychologyCindy.Fight.Ness.achievement.among.areas.attain.available.demonstrates.earn.easily.fighting.girlhood.girls.kind.legal.mastery.necessary.normal.opportunities.otherwise.part.peers.poor.respect.seen.self-esteem.sense.setting.social.street.that.this.urban.well.where.Female juvenile delinquentsTeenage girlsPsychology.Inner citiesMinoritiesPsychology.303.60835/20973Ness Cindy D.1959-1461716MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910817770803321Why girls fight3670372UNINA