“Boys Fight, Girls Fight“: Adolescent Girls Speak about Girls' Aggression

The size of the fight in the girl: Violent girlhood in Ms. Marvel

“…This places girls in a bind, however, since self‐defense remains one of the very few acceptable ways for girls to be physically violent. Educational justice scholar Melissa K. Levy has found, on the basis of ethnographic research among girls who engage in physical violence, that violence provides a feeling of agency for girls who engage in it, allowing them to demonstrate self‐reliance and resilience (58–59). It also, however, cuts the girls off from performing the ideal of middle‐class white femininity correctly (Levy 45 et passim).…”

“…As scholars of girlhood have argued, the violent girl is a source of deep cultural anxiety and punitive legislation (M. Brown; Lavin; Levy). The violent girl is seen as a threat not just to her peers but to constructions of “proper” gender behavior.…”

Adolescents chiliens et violence amoureuse : représentations, normes genrées, et transition vers la vie adulte

“…La perspective de genre qui en émerge est fortement ancrée dans l'enjeu idéologique de normes et de valeurs. À notre avis, cette violence, qui expose un conflit normatif contemporain sur les rôles sociaux de la femme, basé sur des changements de rapports de genre, marque une distinction entre les comportements « traditionnels » des femmes et ceux, « modernes », des adolescentes; elle s'oppose aux normes de genre (Levy, 2012) Un autre constat documenté par l'étude est l'importance des aspects macrosociaux en constante transformation qui agissent comme des facteurs d'influence sur les représentations sociales de la violence dans les relations amoureuses. Plus loin, nous exposerons comment le sexisme -l'un des traits culturels ressortant de notre recherche -, module les représentations sociales de ce type de violence.…”

Psychotherapy with girls: The problems of real girls and the distractions of diagnosis.

“…Perhaps most important, psychotherapists who work with girls need to be familiar with the strengths, adaptiveness, and psychological health of girls, in addition to the social factors and intersecting identities influencing them (L. M. Brown, 1998;Levy, 2012). To this end, feminist psychotherapy, strengths-based psychotherapies, and empowerment approaches are important.…”

“…Girls depend on close, intimate friendships to get them through life, relying on them as emotional and psychological safety nets (L. M. Brown, Way, & Duff, 1999). But as the popular teen media target issues of popularity, body image, sexual desirability, and meanness, girls' relational aggression has become a focus for psychology (L. M. Brown, 2003;Levy, 2012), whereas boys' sexual harassment and relational aggression toward girls has not. Relational aggression is an indirect way to cause harm to another person and includes gossip, exclusion, and namecalling (L. M. Brown, 2003).…”