We also fight, Cultural Models of Violance from the perspective of the Roma girls

Key words: Romani girls, violence, teenage groups, gender diferences, feminity, masculinity Abstract: The text is based on ethnographic research concerning a group of Roma teenagers in Prague and especially the cooperation with Roma girls belonging to that group. The teenagers often touched upon the issue of violence within their peer communication. The research shows that there are several similar Roma teen groups in Prague which organise street fights against each other. The research was carried out in two stages, the first one of which involved work with the whole group. Violence turned out to be dominant mainly for the boys. However, the girls respected this system as well. For this reason, the girls became the focus of the second stage of the research. The text is supposed to provide an outline discussing the question of violence meaning as seen by the girls and their understanding as well as verbalising the phenomenon in question. Furthermore, the theoretical part includes conceptual frames related to the term of violence and its position in different contexts of social sciences. Violence is connected mostly with the youth, gender and masculinity but also with marginalisation, honour and respect. Theoretical literature concerning female violence is paid attention to as well. Besides, this work..