Female Gangs in America

by Chesney-Lind, Meda

• ISBN13: 9780941702478
• ISBN10: 0941702472
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-08-01
• Publisher: Lake View Pr

Table of Contents

Tables and Charts	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction: Why This Book?	3	(3)
I. Historical Perspectives
Introduction: Present but Invisible	6	(4)
Sex in the Gang	10	(17)
Frederic M. Thrasher
A Reporter at Large: ``The Persian Queens''	27	(18)
Robert Rice
Jailbait: The Story of Juvenile Delinquency	45	(3)
William Bernard
The Chicana Gang: A Preliminary Description	48	(9)
John Quicker
Black Female Gangs in Philadelphia	57	(7)
Waln K. Brown
Black Female Gang Behavior: An Historical and Ethnographic Perspective	64	(21)
Laura T. Fishman
II. Emerging Theoretical Perspectives on Gender and Gang Membership
Introduction: Boys 'Theories and Girls' Lives	85	(5)
Girls, Guys and Gangs: The Changing Social Context of Female Delinquency	90	(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