SOCB22H3 Chapter Notes -Murder Of Reena Virk, The Vancouver Sun, Patricia Pearson
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Similarly different: obscuring social hierarchy among girls: reena virk, like many fourteen-year-old girls, had a hard time fitting in where she grew up, in her case the middle-class suburb of saanich on the outskirts of. It didn"t help that she was slightly overweight and the dark- skinned child of immigrants who were not well-to- do (time magazine a fury of her peers dec. 8/97, purvis, 68). Equally the victims of girl violence : bad girls. Reena virk, 14, sounds an alarm about rising violence among teenage girls. Unquestioned heteronormativity: colonial sexist-racist underpinings in the girl violence narrative. Kelly was white and normal seen as a good girl. When girls kill girls, often it"s over a boy"s affections. Moral panic: claims that female perpetrated violent crime is on the rise: you"re so cute when you"re mad. Girl violence: feminists blamed for leading girls and women astray: girls will beboys and it"s not a pretty sight.
