Early twenty-first century North American journalists often claim that social changes such as women's liberation and civil rights have had a dark side for girls. For supposedly abandoning the safety of their traditional role in the home, girls are disproportionately characterized as being at risk of victimization, while also being increasingly cast as risks to themselves and others. Using mixed-methods content analysis, this article demonstrates that the social construct of risky girls crystallized for Toronto news after the 1997 murder of Reena Virk in British Columbia through a raced, classed, and gendered moral panic over bad girls. Discourses changed from talk of youth violence before the murder to talk of risky girls after it. By conflating victimization with offending, risky girl discourses prioritize risk management over needs. This conflation results in the increased policing and incarceration of girls and youth of color, ultimately reinforcing social inequalities like racism and patriarchy.
Christianity and Sexuality
Girls and Women Forge New Paths
Sharon Woodill
those who “had left church life” (10). Good girl/bad girl discourses have long caricatured women’s sexuality in popular media, and Sharma uses this familiar framework to unpack the complexities and multiplicities of Christian women’s sexuality as they
The Schoolboy Sports Story
A Phenomenon and a Period Distinctive in the Cultural History of America
R.W. (Bob) Reising
) understandably assumed greater importance once he had completed his undergraduate preparation. Chapter Four studies the many females, some “good” girls, others “bad” girls—some college students, others “townies” (108)—all of them important at Fardale, Yale, or
Claudia Mitchell
justice-oriented online content.” In the next article, “‘Something Good Distracts Us from the Bad:’” Girls Cultivating Disruption,” Crystal Leigh Endsley analyzes “the spoken word poetry of black, brown, and mixed-race high school girls in New Orleans
Melanie Kennedy and Natalie Coulter
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Girl Constructed in Two Nonfiction Texts
Sexual Subject? Desired Object?
Mary Ann Harlan
. 2004 . “ Good Girls, Bad Girls: Anglocentrism and Diversity in the Constitution of Contemporary Girlhood .” In All About the Girl: Culture, Power, and Identity , ed. Anita Harris , 29 – 44 . New York : Routledge . Gross , Terry . 2016a . “ Teen
Authenticity and Aspiration
Exploring the CBBC Television Tween
Sarah Godfrey
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Amanda H. Littauer
within lesbian communities. In Bad Girls: Young Women, Sex, and Rebellion before the Sixties , I discuss young lesbians who found ways to sneak into bars and socialize with adult lesbians in the postwar era, but I do not emphasize the significance of
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2020
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Importing Divisionism Instead of Diversity
A Personal Account of Jewish Rebirth in Prague
Martin Šmok
active Community members in the process. I feel more and more in my Jewish Youth leader role like somebody who has been dating an ugly, silly and bad girl for over a year, yet is unable to break up. For one can always find something positive in her. Here
Introduction
Autonomous Driving and the Transformation of Car Cultures
Jutta Weber and Fabian Kröger
Narratives 1970–2002 (Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2009); Deborah Paes de Barros, Fast Cars and Bad Girls: Nomadic Subjects and Women’s Road Stories (New York: Peter Lang, 2004); Sidonie Smith, Moving Lives: Twentieth-Century Women’s Travel Writing
