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• Title:
  Young Women in Gangs: Between Victimization and Masculinization
• Creator:
  Andraszczyk , Wojciech
• Description:
  In this paper I will try to present a selection of contexts of young women’s functioning in the gangs. Gangs are traditionally associated with a male identity and a masculine type of criminality, therefore a female participation in the gangs breaks up completely with the essentialist image of femininity and denies the dichotomous division of sexes. A woman as a member of a gang, with her violence oriented attitude and masculinised identity put all the former ideals into question. In this article I will also make reference to the myths concerning female gangs, which among others refer to the conviction that their female members play a secondary part, being a sort of “sattelites” to the male gangsters. Moreover, I will reconstruct the role of the female members of a gang in its structure, as well as the process of women dropping out of a gang.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Date:
  2020.11.14
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Studia Edukacyjne; Nr 44 (2017); 231-246;
  2719-6984;
  1233-6688
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/se/article/view/25269/23187
• Subject:
  power girl;
  masculinization;
  victimization;
  female gangs
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/se/article/view/25269
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text