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Beyond Bad Girls Book Review

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Women have always had a conflicted place within society. There has never been a time when anyone could honestly say that women dominated the social functioning of the world. The book, Beyond Bad Girls by Meda Chesney-Lind and Katherine Irwin, has served to exemplify this fact by discussing the most recent generations of women and their developing deviant behavior towards society. By becoming more violent, promiscuous and so-on-so-forth they serve to try to create a modus operandi to identify themselves in a way that gives them the feeling of more power within the societal standings. Within this paper, the concepts of anomie by Emile Durkheim, social control and the generalized idea of deviance will all be examined to reinforce the idea that women are still under the control of societal pressures and are easily ostracized for any actions taken against the societal standard …show more content…

There are many obscure reasons for the relational aggression experienced by young teens and women in social circles, among them gossiping and back-stabbing to gain popularity while destroying other girl’s self-esteem and mental health. Moreover, there are other important and devastating reasons that exacerbate the effects of the aggressive attacks, such as parental maltreatment, parental criminality, poor parental monitoring, poverty, low educational attainment, sexual harassment, racism, and mental and physical health problems. Consequently, one can clearly see Durkheim’s theory of anomie at its finest. These troubled women deviate in order to find a viable adaptation to their surroundings that allows them to survive within their societies. These deviations aren’t desirable, but they are an attempt to help them cope with their environments to the best of their limited

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