Female Gangs in America

, by Chesney-Lind, Meda; Hagedorn, John M.

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ISBN: 9780941702485 | 0941702480
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/1/1999

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Tables and Charts

vii

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Why This Book?

(3)

I. Historical Perspectives

Introduction: Present but Invisible

(4)

Sex in the Gang

(17)

Frederic M. Thrasher

A Reporter at Large: ``The Persian Queens''

(18)

Robert Rice

Jailbait: The Story of Juvenile Delinquency

(3)

William Bernard

The Chicana Gang: A Preliminary Description

(9)

John Quicker

Black Female Gangs in Philadelphia

(7)

Waln K. Brown

Black Female Gang Behavior: An Historical and Ethnographic Perspective

(21)

Laura T. Fishman

II. Emerging Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Gang Membership

Introduction: Boys 'Theories and Girls' Lives

(5)

Girls, Guys and Gangs: The Changing Social Context of Female Delinquency

(10)

Peggy Giordano

Self Definition by Rejection: The Case of Gang Girls

100

(18)

Ann Campbell

From Patriarchy to Gender: Feminist Theory, Criminology, and the Challenge of Diversity

118

(15)

James Messerschmidt

Responding to Female Gang Involvement

133

(21)

G. David Curry

III. ``Doing Gender'' in Times of Economic and Social Change

Introduction: ``Doing Gender'' and Economic Restructuring

154

(5)

Gang Members' Families

159

(18)

Joan W. Moore

What Happens to Girls in the Gang?

177

(10)

Joan W. Moore

John M. Hagedorn

Female Gangs: An Historical Perspective

187

(23)

Carl S. Taylor

``Just Every Mother's Angel'': An Analysis of Gender and Ethnic Variations in Youth Gang Membership

210

(22)

Karen Joe

Meda Chesney-Lind

Women, Men and Gangs: The Social Construction of Gender in the Barrio

232

(13)

Edwardo Luis Portillos

IV. Girls, Gangs and Violence

Introduction

245

(3)

Female Gang Members' Social Representation of Aggression

248

(8)

Anne Campbell

Fighting Female: The Social Construction of Female Gangs

256

(21)

John M. Hagedorn

Mary L. Devitt

Violence among girls: Does gang membership make a difference?

277

(18)

Elizabeth Piper Deschenes

Finn-Aage Esbensen

Girl, Gangs and Violence: Reinventing the Liberated Female Crook

295

(16)

Meda Chesney-Lind

Notes

311

(10)

References

321

(19)

Index

340

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Female Gangs in America

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