Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Bad Girls, Bad Girls,Whatcha Gonna Do? -- 1 Reading the Culture of Girlfighting -- 2 Good Girls and Real Boys: Preparing the Ground in Early Childhood -- 3 Playing It Like a Girl: Later Childhood and Preadolescence -- 4 Dancing through the Minefield: The Middle School Years -- 5 Patrolling the Borders: High School -- 6 From Girlfighting to Sisterhood -- 7 This Book Is an Action -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author.