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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Cindy D Ness |
ISBN: | 9780814758403 0814758401 9780814758410 081475841X |
OCLC Number: | 878744387 |
Description: | xiii, 185 p. ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction to the subject -- The city of Philadelphia and female youth violence -- Girls' violent behavior as viewed from the streets -- The reasons girls give for fighting -- Mothers, daughters, and the "double-generation" dynamic -- Culture and neighborhood institutions -- Conclusion. |
Responsibility: | Cindy D. Ness. |
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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 Pasko * American Journal of Sociology * Psychologist Ness offers compelling evidence for the cultural and structural reasons why inner-city girls fight. * Choice Magazine * This is a scholarly book in which a case is made for the heretofore undocumented reasons why girls maintain a fighting stance both in school and in the streets . . . The ten pages of references attest to the academically rigorous research that went into thisground-breaking book. -- Peggy Flemming * VOYA Library Magazine * Read more...

