Urban girls revisited [[electronic resource] ] : building strengths / / edited by Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater and Niobe Way

• Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (398 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.7
• Soggetto topico: Poor teenagers - United States; Teenage girls - United States; Urban youth - United States; Minority teenagers - United States
• Altri autori: LeadbeaterBonnie J. Ross <1950-> WayNiobe <1963->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Urban Girls: Building Strengths, Creating Momentum; Part I. Resituating Positive Developmentfor Urban Adolescent Girls; The Many Faces of Urban Girls: Features of Positive Development in Early Adolescence; From Urban Girls to Resilient Women: Studying Adaptation Across Development in the Context of Adversity; Part II. Safe Spaces Revisited; Makin' Homes: An Urban Girl Thing; "They Are Like a Friend": Othermothers Creating Empowering, School-Based Community LivingRooms in Latina and Latino Middle Schools ; To Stay or to Leave? How Do Mentoring Groups Support Healthy Dating Relationships in High-Risk Girls?Caring Connections: Mentoring Relationships in the Lives of Urban Girls; Latina Girls: "We're Like Sisters-Most Times!"; Part III. Culture, Parents, and Protection; Changes in African American Mother-Daughter Relationships DuringAdolescence: Conflict, Autonomy, and Warmth; The "Good" News and the "Bad" News: The "Americanization" of Hmong Girls; Part IV. Resistance: Personal and Political ; "Don't Die With Your Work Balled Up in Your Fists": Contesting Social Injustice Through Participatory ResearchUncovering Truths, Recovering Lives: Lessons of Resistance in the Socialization of Black Girls; Part V. Claiming Sexuality in Relationships:Taking Stock and Gaining Control; "If You Let Me Play . . .": Does High School Physical Activity Reduce Urban Young Adult Women's Sexual Risks?; Condom Use Among Sexually Active Latina Girls in Alternative High Schools; Girl-on-Girl Sexuality; Part VI. When Adversity Is Overwhelming-Then What? ; Understanding Health Disparities Among Female Street YouthBusinesswomen in Urban Life; About the Contributors; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Urban Girls , published in 1996, was one of the first volumes to showcase the lives of girls growing up in contexts of urban poverty and sometimes racism and violence. It spoke directly to young women who, often for the first time, were seeing their own stories and those of their friends explained in the materials they were asked to read. The volume has helped to shape the way in which we study girls and understand their development over the past decade. Urban Girls Revisited explores the diversity of urban adolescent girls' development and the sources of support and resilience that help them
• Titolo autorizzato: Urban girls revisited
• ISBN: 0-8147-5343-4; 0-8147-5237-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910807472803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II