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Why girls fight [[electronic resource] ] : female youth violence in the inner city / / Cindy D. Ness



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Autore: Ness Cindy D. <1959-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Why girls fight [[electronic resource] ] : female youth violence in the inner city / / Cindy D. Ness Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 185 pages)
Disciplina: 303.60835/20973
Soggetto topico: Female juvenile delinquents - United States
Teenage girls - Psychology
Inner cities - United States
Minorities - United States - Psychology
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Why girls fight  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8147-5907-6
0-8147-5867-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910460048803321
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