Featured Speakers
"Girls Gone Wild: Media Misogyny and the Bad Girl Hype "
Meda Chesney-Lind, Ph.D.
Professor
Women's Studies Program
University Hawaii at Manoa
Meda Chesney-Lind, Ph.D. is
Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Nationally recognized for her work on women and crime, her books include
Girls, Delinquency and Juvenile
Justice (Wadsworth, 1992), The
Female Offender: Girls, Women and Crime (Sage, 1997),
Female Gangs in America (Lakeview Press, 1999),
Invisible Punishment (New
Press, 2002), Girls, Women and
Crime (Sage, 2004), and Beyond
Bad Girls: Gender Violence and Hype (Routledge, 2008).
She has just finished an edited collection on trends in girls’
violence, entitled Fighting for
Girls: Critical Perspectives on Gender and Violence (2010)
that was just published by SUNY Press.