Girls, aggression, and intersectionality : transforming the discourse of "mean girls" in the United States / edited by Krista McQueeney and Alicia Girgenti-Malone.

Other author McQueeney, Krista, editor.
Other author Girgenti-Malone, Alicia, editor.
Format Electronic
PublicationAbingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
Copyright Date©2018
Description1 online resource (xv, 202 pages) : illustrations.
Supplemental ContentProQuest Ebook Central
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SeriesRoutledge research in gender and society ; 66
Routledge research in gender and society 66. ^A720874
Contents Girls and violence: moral panics and the policing of girlhood -- Constructing the "bad girls" hype: an intersectional analysis of news media's depictions of violent girls -- Intersectionality and the news framing of "bad girls" -- The female world of love and ritual violence: the Slender Man case and popular news depictions of female adolescent violence -- The new famous: deconstructing African American girl fights on social media -- All the rage: contextualizing intersectionality and violence in delinquent girls' lives -- A critical review of sexism, racism, and aggression in female survivors of sex trafficking -- Inappropriately aggressive and dangerously submissive: Latina girls navigating and resisting racialized sexualization in the New Latino Diaspora -- A critical view of female bullying and aggression: Pacific Islander girls confront patriarchy, racialization, and imperialism.
Abstract "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"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Source of descriptionDescription based on print version record.
Issued in other formPrint version: Girls, aggression, and intersectionality. London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018 9781138059313
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