Beyond bad girls : gender, violence and hype / Meda Chesney-Lind and Katherine Irwin.

Incluye índice.

Bibliografía: p. 189-213.

Girls gone wild? -- The new bad girl : constructing mean and violent girls -- Speaking of girls -- Growing up female : families and the regulation of girlhood -- Policing girls? Peer groups : Columbine and the hunt for girl bullies -- Pathologizing girls? Relational aggression and violence prevention -- Policing girlhood : sexism, schools, and the anti-violence movement -- Still "the best place to conquer girls" : girls and the juvenile justice system -- Policing gone wild.

Through interviews with young women, educators and people in the criminal justice system, this text exposes the formal and informal systems of socio-cultural control imposed on girls.