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Jones, Nikki.

Girls fight: Negotiating conflict and violence in distressed inner-city neighborhoods.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Girls fight: Negotiating conflict and violence in distressed inner-city neighborhoods.
Author:	Jones, Nikki.
Description:	239 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Elijah Anderson.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-06, Section: A, page: 2370.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-06A.
Subject:	Sociology, Criminology and Penology.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3138034
ISBN:	0496852043

Girls fight: Negotiating conflict and violence in distressed inner-city neighborhoods.
Jones, Nikki.

Girls fight: Negotiating conflict and violence in distressed inner-city neighborhoods. - 239 p.

Adviser: Elijah Anderson.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2004.

The idea that men and women live in different worlds, and that women are shielded from forms of violence men experience, is a common assumption that does not hold true in inner-city neighborhoods. In Girls Fight , I examine how young women who live in distressed inner-city neighborhoods consider and respond to threats of violence in their everyday lives. This study, based on fieldwork conducted from 2001--2003 in Liberty, a large northeastern city, reveals the perceived instrumentality of violence in the lives of young Black women in the inner-city setting. Through participant observation, direct observation, and in-depth interviews with young women injured in violent incidents, I found that young Black women who live in distressed inner-city neighborhoods consider violence to be an important social resource. Young women who come of age in this setting learn, through instruction, observation, and experience, that they are primarily responsible for their own well-being. The appreciation of this lesson informs how young women consider and respond to threats of various kinds of violence, including violence in the neighborhood, interpersonal conflict, and gender-specific threats of violence. At times, girls fight. Young women in this setting fight to protect their own personal boundaries and to ensure the respect and security that comes with being able to do so. Young women also fight to gain status. A young woman's reputation as a "fighter" can facilitate her movement through potentially contentious school hallways and occasionally violent neighborhood blocks. Even those young women who do not achieve status as a consequence of their fighting ability realize the utility of physical violence. Thus, otherwise reluctant fighters will---after exhausting all possible strategies of avoidance---fight. As with any social resource, the utility of young women's violence has its limits. These limits are exposed in cases of gender-specific violence. Female caretakers in today's inner city are well aware of the various threats of violence confronting young Black women. Thus, young women are socialized for survival. This socialization process emphasizes young women's responsibility for their own well-being and the utility of being able to physically and publicly defend one's personal boundaries.

ISBN: 0496852043Subjects--Topical Terms:

212412
Sociology, Criminology and Penology.

Girls fight: Negotiating conflict and violence in distressed inner-city neighborhoods.
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