Girls, Aggression, and Intersectionality

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

• PART IMedia Representations of Female Aggression and Violence1 Girls and Violence: Moral Panics and the Policing of Girlhood Meda Chesney-Lind and Lisa Pasko2 Constructing the "Bad Girls" Hype: An Intersectional Analysis of News Media’s Depictions of Violent GirlsTia Stevens Andersen, Deena Isom Scott, and Kelsey Collins3 "Bad Girls" and Moral Panics: Intersectionality in News Framing of Female Aggression Krista McQueeney and Alicia Girgenti-Malone4 The Female World of Love and Ritual Violence: The Slender Man Case and Popular News Depictions of Female Adolescent ViolenceKaren Hayden5 The New Famous: Deconstructing African American Girl Fights on Social Media Tammy Rhodes and Andrea HuntPART IICriminalization and Resistance6 All the Rage: Contextualizing Intersectionality and Violence in Delinquent Girls’ Lives Lisa Pasko and Vera Lopez7 A Critical Review of Sexism, Racism, and Aggression in Female Survivors of Sex TraffickingPatrick Kerr8 Inappropriately Aggressive and Dangerously Submissive: Latina Girls Navigating and Resisting Racialized Sexualization in the New Latino DiasporaKatherine Clonan-Roy9 A Critical View of Female Bullying and Aggression: Pacific Islander Girls Confront Patriarchy, Racialization, and ImperialismKatherine Irwin and Sanna King

Girls, Aggression and Intersectionality steps into the "mean girl" hype prepared for battle, directly confronting damaging assumptions and stereotypes. Readers will come away with newfound clarity and fierce loyalty to girls who must fight their way through a potent and troubling morass of sexism, racism, classism, and homophobia for the visibility, respect, and dignity they deserve. This book is mandatory for anyone working with girls, but especially those on the front-lines of education and criminal justice.Lyn Mikel Brown, Professor of Education, Colby College, and author of Girlfighting: Betrayal and Rejection Among GirlsGirls, Aggression and Intersectionality is an impressive effort to analyze young women’s violence, and the hype surrounding it, through an intersectional lens. McQueeney and Girgenti-Malone have brought together a distinguished group of scholars who illuminate these intersections in new and important ways. A must read for those of us who hope to intercede on the criminalization of girls—in the justice system and the public imagination. Jody Miller, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers School of Criminal Justice, and author of Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered ViolenceGirls, Aggression and Intersectionality is essential reading for scholars and students, and anyone in need of an intersectionalized understanding of "why girls fight." This volume is a comprehensive and skillful intersectional treatment of aggressive and assaultive behaviors committed by girls and young women.This volume provides necessary and up-to-date critical conceptualization of aggressive and assaultive behaviors committed by girls and young women, paying particular attention to the multiple intersecting identities of girls. The chapters in this volume provide rigorous inquiry and analysis to combat misinformed and stereotypical beliefs frequently perpetuated through popular and social media about all girls and young women, but especially about girls of Color, LGBTQ girls, and girls living with minimal financial resources.Hillary Potter, Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder, and author of Intersectionality and Criminology: Disrupting and Revolutionizing Studies of Crime