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Fighting for girls : new perspectives on gender and violence
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Fighting for girls : new perspectives on gender and violence

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pt. I. Real trends in female violence: getting tough on girls. Have "girls gone wild"? / Mike Males
Criminalizing assault: do age and gender matter? / Eve S. Buzawa and David Hirschel
Jailing 'bad' girls: girls' violence and trends in female incarceration / Meda Chesney-Lind
pt. II. Girls' violence: institutional contexts and concerns. 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
Policing girlhood? Relational aggression and violence prevention / Meda Chesney-Lind, Merry Morash, and Katherine Irwin
"I don't know if you consider that as violence": using attachment theory to understand girls' perspectives on violence / Judith A. Ryder
Reducing aggressive behavior in adolescent girls by attending to school climate / Sibylle Artz and Diana Nicholson
Negotiations of the living space: life in the group home for girls who use violence / Marion Brown
pt. III. Girls' violence: explanations and implications. "It's about being a survivor": African American girls, gender, and the context of inner city violence / Nikki Jones
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
Moral panics, violence, and the policing of girls: reasserting patriarchal control in the new millennium / Walter S. DeKeseredy.

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Fighting for girls : new perspectives on gender and violence. ISBN 9781438432946. Published by State University of New York Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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