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Title Urban girls : resisting stereotypes, creating identities / edited by Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater and Niobe Way.

Publication Info. New York : New York University Press, [1996]
©1996

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.235 U72G    Check Shelf
Description xvi, 409 pages ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. Identity development. Makin' homes : an urban girl thing / Jennifer Pastor, Jennifer McCormick, and Michelle Fine -- Personal and ethnic identity, values, and self-esteem among Black and Latino adolescent girls / Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus ... [et al.] -- Diversity in girls' experiences : feeling good about who you are / Sumru Erkut ... [et al.] -- The intersection of gender, race, and ethnicity in identity development of Caribbean American teens / Mary C. Waters. 2. Family relationships. Raising resisters : the role of truth telling in the psychological development of African American girls / Janie Victoria Ward -- African American mothers and their adolescent daughters : closeness, conflict, and control / Ana Mari Cauce ... [et al.] -- Cultural stories : Latina and Portugese daughters and mothers / Jill McLean Taylor -- Are "absent fathers" really absent? : urban adolscent girls speak out about their fathers / Niobe Way and Helena Stauber -- African American adolescent mothers, their families, and their daughters : a longitudinal perspective over twelve years / Nancy Apfel and Victoria Seitz.
3. Peer relationships. Between experiences of betrayal and desire : close friendships among urgan adolescents / Niobe Way -- Why not marry your baby's father? : answers from African American and Hispanic adolescent mothers / Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater, Niobe Way, and Anthony Raden. 4. Mentoring relationships. Supportive ties between nonparent adults and urban adolescent girls / Jean E. Rhodes and Anita B. Davis -- From mentor to muse : recasting the role of women in relationship with urban adolescent girls / Amy M. Sullivan. 5. Sexuality. Adolescent girls' sexuality : debunking the myth of the urban girl / Deborah L. Tolman -- Inner-city girls of color : unmarried, sexually active nonmothers / Velma McBride Murry -- Contextual factors of sexual risk-taking in urban African American preadolescent children / Elizabeth M. Vera ... [et al.]. 6. Health risks. Health-compromising behaviors in urban early adolescent females : ethnic and socioeconomic variations / Jewelle Taylor Gibbs -- Symptom expression in inner-city Latinas : psychopathology or help seeking? / Carlos Salguero and Wendy R. McCusker -- Acculturation and depression among Latina urban girls / LaRue Allen ... [et al.]. 7. Career development. Sizing up the future : predictors of African American adolescent females' expectancies about their economic fortunes and family life courses / Vonnie C. McLoyd and Debra M. Hernandez Jozefowicz -- Career development of Hispanic adolescent girls / Brunilda De León.
Subject Poor teenagers -- United States.
Teenage girls -- United States.
Urban poor -- United States.
Minority teenagers -- United States.
Indexed Term Adolescents Social conditions
United States
Subject Psychology, Adolescent -- United States.
Adolescent Behavior.
Women -- psychology.
Urban Population -- United States.
Minority Groups -- United States.
Poverty -- United States.
Added Author Leadbeater, Bonnie J. Ross, 1950-
Way, Niobe, 1963-
ISBN 0814751075 alkaline paper
0814751083 paperback alkaline paper
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