Girls, Aggression, and Intersectionality: Transforming the Discourse of "Mean Girls" in the United States (Routledge Research in Gender and Society)

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Synopsis
From media images of "mean girls" to the disproportionate punishment of Black, Latina and/or queer girls in schools and the justice system, female aggression has become a public concern. Scholars, educators, policymakers and parents are scrambling to respond to the perceived upsurge in girls’ bullying, peer pressure, and aggression/violence.

Girls, Aggression and Intersectionality examines how intersecting social identities – such as race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, age, and others - shape media representations of, and criminal justice reactions to, female aggression. The book focuses on three overarching questions: How do race, class, and/or sexuality influence media images of female aggression? How do aggressive girls’ intersecting identities affect law enforcement and criminal justice responses to their aggression? How are diverse groups of girls trying to resist their labelling and criminalization?

Using intersectionality as a conceptual framework, this insightful volume deconstructs a unitary analysis of "female aggression" and transforms the mainstream discourse that paints girls as inherently "mean."

Girls, Aggression and Intersectionality will appeal to undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as postdoctoral researchers, interested in fields including Gender Studies, Women’s Studies, Youth Studies, Criminology and Media and Culture.

Copyright:
2018

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
202 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781351671941
Related ISBNs:
9781138059313, 9781315163697
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Krista McQueeney and Alicia Girgenti-Malone; individual chapters, the contributors
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Krista Mcqueeney
Edited by:
Alicia A. Girgenti-Malone

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