Full Description
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.
Contents
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
