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Gender, Youth and Culture
Young Masculinities and Femininities
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This original book interweaves popular culture and theory-led research to explore how gender is produced, consumed and performed in young lives today. With valuable insight into the significance of gender and culture in young people's lives, the authors examine current and future developments in the fields of youth, gender and cultural studies.
'...a well-researched text about how gender is impacted in our new global, postindustrial society.' - Kerri Kanelos, Feminist Review (www.feministreview.blogspot.com)
'This is an extremely well-written book: really clear and enjoyable to read...a vital text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of gender or youth studies, but also provides a comprehensive up-to-date compendium of research on gender and youth across the disciplines of sociology, education and geography, for the wider academic community.' - Sumi Hollingworth, Gender and Education
PART 1: UNDERSTANDING GENDER AND YOUTH: CONCEPTS, THEORY AND ACTION
Introducing Gender
Researching Gender: towards global ethnographies
Gender Relations in Late Modernity: young masculinities in crisis
Gender Relations in Late Modernity: youthful femininities and the new girl order
Gender in a Global Context
PART 2: PERFORMING GENDER AND YOUTH: PRODUCTION, REGULATION AND CONSUMPTION
Producing and Regulating Gender: Power, Resistance and Schooling
Consuming Gender
Performing Gender
Ending Gender?
References
ANOOP NAYAK is Reader in Social and Cultural Geography in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle, UK. He is author of the critically acclaimed ethnography Race, Place and Globalisation: Youth Cultures in a Changing World (Berg 2003).
MARY JANE KEHILY is Senior Lecturer in Childhood and Youth Studies at the The Open University, UK. She is author of Sexuality, Gender and Schooling: Shifting Agendas in Social Learning (Routledge 2002).
Description
This original book interweaves popular culture and theory-led research to explore how gender is produced, consumed and performed in young lives today. With valuable insight into the significance of gender and culture in young people's lives, the authors examine current and future developments in the fields of youth, gender and cultural studies.
Reviews
'...a well-researched text about how gender is impacted in our new global, postindustrial society.' - Kerri Kanelos, Feminist Review (www.feministreview.blogspot.com)
'This is an extremely well-written book: really clear and enjoyable to read...a vital text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of gender or youth studies, but also provides a comprehensive up-to-date compendium of research on gender and youth across the disciplines of sociology, education and geography, for the wider academic community.' - Sumi Hollingworth, Gender and Education
Contents
PART 1: UNDERSTANDING GENDER AND YOUTH: CONCEPTS, THEORY AND ACTION
Introducing Gender
Researching Gender: towards global ethnographies
Gender Relations in Late Modernity: young masculinities in crisis
Gender Relations in Late Modernity: youthful femininities and the new girl order
Gender in a Global Context
PART 2: PERFORMING GENDER AND YOUTH: PRODUCTION, REGULATION AND CONSUMPTION
Producing and Regulating Gender: Power, Resistance and Schooling
Consuming Gender
Performing Gender
Ending Gender?
References
Authors
ANOOP NAYAK is Reader in Social and Cultural Geography in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle, UK. He is author of the critically acclaimed ethnography Race, Place and Globalisation: Youth Cultures in a Changing World (Berg 2003).
MARY JANE KEHILY is Senior Lecturer in Childhood and Youth Studies at the The Open University, UK. She is author of Sexuality, Gender and Schooling: Shifting Agendas in Social Learning (Routledge 2002).
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