Ethnic Differences in Parents' Attitudes toward Girls' Use of Aggression

“S-T-R-8 Up” Latinas: Affirming an Alternative Sexual Identity

“…A central focus of this literature is the negative life course outcomes realized from girls' aggression. The data represent aggressive girls as "at risk" for depression, intimate partner violence, juvenile delinquency, peer rejection, substance abuse, teenage pregnancy, and future aggressive parenting (Adamshick, 2010;Barron & Lacombe, 2005;Blake, Lease, Olejnik, & Turner, 2010;Clark, Petras, Kellam, Ialongo, & Poduska, 2003;Crick, Ostrov, & Werner, 2006;Miller-Johnson et al, 1999;Sullivan, Cavanaugh, Ufner, Swan, & Snow, 2009). …”

“…Here, aggression is flagged as a marker of resilience (Blake et al, 2010). At times the literature takes a feminist bent, with aggression positioned as "prophylaxis" against negative outcomes (listed above) resulting from intersecting oppressions (race, class, and gender) in the lives of young women (Mendoza-Denton, 2008).…”