A New Universal Mean Girl: Examining the Discursive Construction and Social Regulation of a New Feminine Pathology

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Beyond Discourse? Using Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis to explore affective assemblages, heterosexually striated space, and lines of flight online and at school (2011, background): “Verbal cruelty, on the other hand, is ‘normative’ for girls and thus overlooked © 2010 The Author Educational Philosophy and Theory © 2010 Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia (Ringrose, 2006; Ringrose & Renold, 2009).”
‘Prove me the bam!’: Victimization and agency in the lives of young women who commit violent offences (2005, background): “At the turn of the century public concerns relating to the problem of violence among working-class (and, in North America, minority) young women gave way to a more general and insidious moral panic about the problem of ‘ordinary’ girls’ increased use of so-called ‘relational’ or ‘indirect’ aggressio”
Normative cruelties and gender deviants: the performative effects of bully discourses for girls and boys in school (2010, background): “The girls’ open verbal fighting transgresses what are middle-class codes of appropriate feminine behaviour as hidden, silent, secretive, covert and thus repressive (Ringrose, 2006).”