ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the practices Latina girls at the school site engaged in to respond to the school environment, particularly the gendered expectations of their teachers and constant harassment by the boys. Specifically this chapter looks at the ways in which Latina girls attempted to gain power over their daily experience at school. This chapter also examines the contested notion of agency as a form of power and the role of resistance within agency, and considers the way in which that concept is useful in understanding and analyzing the actions of Latina girls in middle school.
