Urban girls revisited : building strengths / edited by Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater and Niobe Way.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leadbeater, Bonnie J. Ross, 1950-

Way, Niobe, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poor teenagers--United States.

Poor teenagers.

Teenage girls--United States.

Teenage girls.

Urban youth--United States.

Urban youth.

Minority teenagers--United States.

Minority teenagers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (398 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Urban Girls , published in 1996, was one of the first volumes to showcase the lives of girls growing up in contexts of urban poverty and sometimes racism and violence. It spoke directly to young women who, often for the first time, were seeing their own stories and those of their friends explained in the materials they were asked to read. The volume has helped to shape the way in which we study girls and understand their development over the past decade. Urban Girls Revisited explores the diversity of urban adolescent girls' development and the sources of support and resilience that help them

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Urban Girls: Building Strengths, Creating Momentum; Part I. Resituating Positive Developmentfor Urban Adolescent Girls; The Many Faces of Urban Girls: Features of Positive Development in Early Adolescence; From Urban Girls to Resilient Women: Studying Adaptation Across Development in the Context of Adversity; Part II. Safe Spaces Revisited; Makin' Homes: An Urban Girl Thing; "They Are Like a Friend": Othermothers Creating Empowering, School-Based Community LivingRooms in Latina and Latino Middle Schools

To Stay or to Leave? How Do Mentoring Groups Support Healthy Dating Relationships in High-Risk Girls?Caring Connections: Mentoring Relationships in the Lives of Urban Girls; Latina Girls: "We're Like Sisters-Most Times!"; Part III. Culture, Parents, and Protection; Changes in African American Mother-Daughter Relationships DuringAdolescence: Conflict, Autonomy, and Warmth; The "Good" News and the "Bad" News: The "Americanization" of Hmong Girls; Part IV. Resistance: Personal and Political

"Don't Die With Your Work Balled Up in Your Fists": Contesting Social Injustice Through Participatory ResearchUncovering Truths, Recovering Lives: Lessons of Resistance in the Socialization of Black Girls; Part V. Claiming Sexuality in Relationships:Taking Stock and Gaining Control; "If You Let Me Play . . .": Does High School Physical Activity Reduce Urban Young Adult Women's Sexual Risks?; Condom Use Among Sexually Active Latina Girls in Alternative High Schools; Girl-on-Girl Sexuality; Part VI. When Adversity Is Overwhelming-Then What?

Understanding Health Disparities Among Female Street YouthBusinesswomen in Urban Life; About the Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814753439

0814753434

9780814752371

0814752373

OCLC:

779828172