Girls, Aggression, and Intersectionality

Transforming the Discourse of "Mean Girls" in the United States
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-46011-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 342 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcqueeney, Krista

Girgenti-Malone, Alicia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I

Media Representations of Female Aggression and Violence

1 Girls and Violence: Moral Panics and the Policing of Girlhood

Meda Chesney-Lind and Lisa Pasko

2 Constructing the "Bad Girls" Hype: An Intersectional Analysis of News

Media’s Depictions of Violent Girls

Tia Stevens Andersen, Deena Isom Scott, and Kelsey Collins

3 "Bad Girls" and Moral Panics: Intersectionality in News Framing of Female

Aggression

Krista McQueeney and Alicia Girgenti-Malone

4 The Female World of Love and Ritual Violence: The Slender Man Case and

Popular News Depictions of Female Adolescent Violence

Karen Hayden

5 The New Famous: Deconstructing African American Girl Fights on Social Media

Tammy Rhodes and Andrea Hunt

PART II

Criminalization and Resistance

6 All the Rage: Contextualizing Intersectionality and Violence in Delinquent

Girls’ Lives

Lisa Pasko and Vera Lopez

7 A Critical Review of Sexism, Racism, and Aggression in Female Survivors of

Sex Trafficking

Patrick Kerr

8 Inappropriately Aggressive and Dangerously Submissive: Latina Girls

Navigating and Resisting Racialized Sexualization in the New Latino Diaspora

Katherine Clonan-Roy

9 A Critical View of Female Bullying and Aggression: Pacific Islander Girls

Confront Patriarchy, Racialization, and Imperialism

Katherine Irwin and Sanna King

Über Autor(innen)

Krista McQueeney is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Criminology & Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, USA
Alicia Girgenti-Malone is Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Merrimack College, USA