Meda Chesney-Lind & Nikki Jones 
Fighting for Girls [EPUB ebook] 
New Perspectives on Gender and Violence

Have girls really gone wild? Despite the media fascination with ‘bad girls, ‘ facts beyond the hype have remained unclear. Fighting for Girls focuses on these facts, and using the best data availabe about actual trends in girls’ uses of violence, the scholars here find that by virtually any measure available, incidents of girls’ violence are going down, not up. Additionally, rather than attributing girls violence to personality or to girls becoming ‘more like boys, ‘ Fighting for Girls focuses on the contexts that produce violence in girls, demonstrating how addressing the unique problems that confront girls in dating relationships, families, school hallways and classrooms, and in distressed urban neighborhoods can help reduce girls’ use of violence. Often including girls’ own voices, contributors to the volume illustrate why girls use violence in certain situations, encouraging us to pay attention to trauma in the girls’ pasts as well as how violence becomes a tool girls use to survive toxic families, deteriorated neighborhoods, and neglectful schools.

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List of Tables

Acknowledgments



Introduction


Meda Chesney-Lind and Nikki Jones




Part I. Real Trends in Female Violence: Getting Tough on Girls



1. Have “Girls Gone Wild”?


Mike Males



2. Criminalizing Assault: Do Age and Gender Matter?


Eve S. Buzawa and David Hirschel



3. Jailing “Bad” Girls: Girls’ Violence and Trends in Female Incarceration


Meda Chesney-Lind




Part II. Girls’ Violence: Institutional Contexts and Concerns



4. 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



5. Policing Girlhood? Relational Aggression and Violence Prevention


Meda Chesney-Lind, Merry Morash, and Katherine Irwin



6. “I don’t know if you consider that as violence . . .”: Using Attachment Theory to Understand Girls’ Perspectives on Violence


Judith A. Ryder



7. Reducing Aggressive Behavior in Adolescent Girls by Attending to School Climate


Sibylle Artz and Diana Nicholson



8. Negotiations of the Living Space: Life in the Group Home for Girls Who Use Violence


Marion Brown




Part III. Girls’ Violence: Explanations and Implications



9. “It’s about being a survivor . . .”: African American Girls, Gender, and the Context of Inner-City Violence


Nikki Jones



10. 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



Epilogue: Moral Panics, Violence, and the Policing of Girls: Reasserting Patriarchal Control in the New Millennium


Walter S. De Keseredy



About the Contributors

Index

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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 Katherine Irwin);
The Female Offender: Girls, Women, and Crime, Second Edition (coauthored 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.