Bullied

<p>In this examination of the ubiquitous practice of bullying among youth, compelling first person stories vividly convey the lived experience of peer torment and how it impacted the lives of five diverse young women. Author Keith Berry’s own autoethnographic narratives and analysis add important relational communication, methodological, and ethical dimensions to their accounts. The personal stories create an opening to understand how this form of physical and verbal violence shapes identities, relationships, communication, and the construction of meaning among a variety of youth. The layered narrative</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>describes the practices constituting bullying and how youth work to cope with peer torment and its aftermath, largely focusing on identity construction and well being;</li> <p> </p> <li>addresses contemporary cyberbullying as well as other forms of relational aggression in many social contexts across race, gender, and sexual orientations;</li> <p> </p> <li>is written in a compelling way to be accessible to students in communication, education, psychology, social welfare, and other fields.</li> </ul> <p>Table of Contents</p><p>Preface </p><p>Acknowledgements </p><p>Chapter One: Bullying: A Narrative Opening to a Relational Problem </p><p>Chapter Two: Cutting Through: The Journey and Horror of Finding Self-Love </p><p>Reflexive Interlude One: The Little Professor </p><p>Chapter Three: Pure Evil Entertainment </p><p>Reflexive Interlude Two: Rope Burn </p><p>Chapter Four: Flying Tomatoes: Cruella’s Clash with the Dalmatians </p><p>Reflexive Interlude Three: Stretch </p><p>Chapter Five: Highlight Girl: Finding Strength in her Weak Soul </p><p>Reflexive Interlude Four: Of Frogs and Friends </p><p>Chapter Six: A Narrative of Bullying and Rape </p><p>Reflexive Interlude Five: Bennies on the Floor </p><p>Chapter Seven: Opened—Bullying Communication and Identities, and the Power of Stories </p><p>Appendix </p><p>References </p>