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Why Girls Fight: Female Youth Violence in the Inner City

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Description for Why Girls Fight: Female Youth Violence in the Inner City Paperback. A fresh perspective on the issues behind everyday street fighting among urban girls. Num Pages: 198 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFE; JFSG; JFSJ1; JFSP2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 15. Weight in Grams: 284.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
198
Condition
New
Number of Pages
198
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814758410
SKU
V9780814758410
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About Cindy D. Ness
Cindy D. Ness is a Senior Policy Consultant at the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy in Albany, New York, and a practicing psychologist in New York City. She holds doctorates in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University and in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania..

Reviews for Why Girls Fight: Female Youth Violence in the Inner City
Ness's interdisciplinary approach to the subject of street fighting among young women effectively orchestrates a dialogue between cultural, social-institutional, and psychological-theoretical analyses.
Aimee Meredith Cox
Signs
Ness's book is well written, well organized, and thought provoking. The interdisciplinary foundation to her work offers insight and explanation that few other studies of its kind have conveyed.
Lisa ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Why Girls Fight: Female Youth Violence in the Inner City


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