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As the economy constricts, it seems living with a chronic sense of fear and anxiety is the new normal for a growing number of urban females. Many females are susceptible to victimization by cumulative strands of violence in school, their communities, families and partnerships. Exposure to violence has been shown to contribute to physical and mental health problems, a propensity for substance abuse, transience and homelessness, and unsurprisingly, poor school attendance and performance. What does a girl do when there is no place to get away from this, and even school is a danger zone? Why have so many educators turned their attention away from the reality of violence against girls? Why is there a tendency to categorize such violence as just another example of the general concept of "bullying?"
Critical educators who research the effects of current market logics on the schooling of marginalized youth have yet fully to focus on this issue. This volume puts the reality of violence in the lives of urban school girls back on the map, investigates answers to the above questions, and presents suggestions for change.
List of contents
Chapter 1.Capital and the Production of Classed and Racialized Females Julia Hall Chapter 2. Human Sex Trafficking in the City: Seeking Victims among Domestic Girls Illana R. Lane & Virginia A. Batchelor Chapter 3. Longitudinal Ethnography: Uncovering Domestic Abuse in Low-Income Women's Lives Linda Burton, Diane Purvin, & Raymond Garrett-Peters Chapter 4. Gender as the Next-Top Model of Global Consumer-Citizenship Lindsay Palmer Chapter 5. Neoliberal Fantasies and the ‘Centaur State:’ Confronting Hypermasculine Violence in Urban Public Schooling Alexander J. Means Chapter 6. ‘Prisonization’ and Latinas in Alternative High Schools Aida Hurtado, Ruby Hernandez, & Craig Haney Chapter 7. Disability and Silences That Do Not Tell Linda Ware & Danielle Cowley Chapter 8. When Black Girls Became Pretty: Teacher Biography as Source of Student Transformation Craig Centrie Chapter 9. Stop the Potlucks Julia Hall
About the author
Julia Hall is Professor of Education Policy at D'Youville College. In her research she considers the school and community experiences of youth who have been economically and culturally marginalized in cities in the context of a rapidly changing economy. She is likewise focused on gendered violence and female students. Her books include
Canal Town Youth: Community Organization and the Development of Adolescent Identity,
Underprivileged Schoolchildren and the Assault on Dignity: Policy Challenges and Resistance, and
Children's Human Rights and Public Schools in the United States.
