Urban Girls Revisited: Building Strengths Book

Acknowledgments     xi
Preface   Niobe Way     xiii
Introduction: Urban Girls: Building Strengths, Creating Momentum   Bonnie J. Leadbeater     1
Resituating Positive Development for Urban Adolescent Girls
The Many Faces of Urban Girls: Features of Positive Development in Early Adolescence   Richard M. Lerner   Erin Phelps   Amy Alberts   Yulika Forman   Elise D. Christiansen     19
From Urban Girls to Resilient Women: Studying Adaptation Across Development in the Context of Adversity   Anne Shaffer   Brianna Coffino   Kristen Boelcke-Stennes   Ann S. Masten     53
Safe Spaces Revisited
Makin' Homes: An Urban Girl Thing   Jennifer Pastor   Jennifer McCormick   Michelle Fine   Ruth Andolsen   Nora Friedman   Nikki Richardson   Tanzania Roach   Marina Tavarez     75
"They Are Like a Friend": Othermothers Creating Empowering, School-Based Community Living Rooms in Latina and Latino Middle Schools   Nancy Lopez   Chalane E. Lechuga     97
To Stay or to Leave? How Do Mentoring Groups Support Healthy Dating Relationships in High-Risk Girls?   Elizabeth Banister   Bonnie J. Leadbeater     121
Caring Connections: MentoringRelationships in the Lives of Urban Girls   Jean E. Rhodes   Anita A. Davis   Leslie R. Prescott   Renee Spencer     142
Latina Girls: "We're Like Sisters-Most Times!"   Jill McLean Taylor   Carmen N. Veloria   Martina C. Verba     157
Culture, Parents, and Protection
Changes in African American Mother-Daughter Relationships During Adolescence: Conflict, Autonomy, and Warmth   Catherine L. Costigan   Ana Mari Cauce   Kenyatta Etchison     177
The "Good" News and the "Bad" News: The "Americanization" of Hmong Girls   Stacey J. Lee     202
Resistance: Personal and Political
"Don't Die With Your Work Balled Up in Your Fists": Contesting Social Injustice Through Participatory Research   Maria Elena Torre   Michelle Fine   Natasha Alexander   Emily Genao     221
Uncovering Truths, Recovering Lives: Lessons of Resistance in the Socialization of Black Girls   Janie Victoria Ward     243
Claiming Sexuality in Relationships: Taking Stock and Gaining Control
"If You Let Me Play...": Does High School Physical Activity Reduce Urban Young Adult Women's Sexual Risks?   Allison J. Tracy   Sumru Erkut     263
Condom Use Among Sexually Active Latina Girls in Alternative High Schools   Jill Denner   Karin Coyle      281
Girl-on-Girl Sexuality   Ritch C. Savin-Williams     301
When Adversity Is Overwhelming-Then What?
Understanding Health Disparities Among Female Street Youth   Cecilia Benoit   Mikael Jansson   Murray Anderson     321
Businesswomen in Urban Life   Carl S. Taylor   Pamela R. Smith   Virgil A. Taylor     338
About the Contributors     361
Index     365