Urban Girls: Resisting Stereotypes, Creating Identities

by Niobe Way

Book Overview

One of the first volumes to showcase the lives of girls growing up in urban poverty

Sociologists have tried to analyze adolescents as long as the discipline has existed. However, most studies have focused on suburban youth, ignoring a large segment of the population, the urban adolescent.

"Urban Girls tries to reverse this trend. The researchers included in this ambitious project realize there is more to adolescence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814751075
• ISBN13: 9780814751077
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 7.2" x 10.2"