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Ness's book is well written, well organized, and thought provoking. The interdisciplinary foundation to her work offers insight and explanation that few other studies of its kind have conveyed. -Lisa Pasko,American Journal of Sociology Psychologist Ness offers compelling evidence for the cultural and structural reasons why inner-city girls fight. -Choice Magazine,Choice Magazine Ness's interdisciplinary approach to the subject of street fighting among young women effectively orchestrates a dialogue between cultural, social-institutional, and psychological-theoretical analyses. -Aimee Meredith Cox,Signs This is a scholarly book in which a case is made for the heretofore undocumented reasons why girls maintain a fighting stance both in school and in the streets ... The ten pages of references attest to the academically rigorous research that went into this ground-breaking book. -Peggy Flemming,VOYA Library Magazine

This is a scholarly book in which a case is made for the heretofore undocumented reasons why girls maintain a fighting stance both in school and in the streets . . . The ten pages of references attest to the academically rigorous research that went into this ground-breaking book.

( This is a scholarly book in which a case is made for the heretofore undocumented reasons why girls maintain a fighting stance both in school and in the streets . . . The ten pages of references attest to the academically rigorous research that went into this ground-breaking book. )-(Peggy Flemming), ( VOYA Library Magazine )

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Cindy D. Ness is a Senior Policy Consultant at the Schuyler Center for Analysis and Advocacy in Albany, New York, and a practicing psychologist in New York City. She holds doctorates in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University and in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania..

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