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new book 'Youth Sexualities'

Posted by Filip30 on 2018-May-31 22:27:49, Thursday

Not really cheap ($138) but nevertheless there is a new and interesting book:

Youth Sexualities

Public Feelings and Contemporary Cultural Politics

by Susan Talburt, Editor

https://www.abc-clio.com/ABC-CLIOCorporate/product.aspx?pc=A5189C

"These volumes offer an in-depth analysis of youth sexualities as they shape and are shaped by public feelings and by American social, cultural, and political contexts.

The idea of youth sexuality makes many adults anxious, but sexuality is a very real part of youth and is the subject of many important social issues. Society now increasingly, sometimes grudgingly, recognizes youth as sexual actors; this collection examines contradictory public feelings related to youth sexualities, including perennial and new topics such as sex education, sexting, teen mothers, masculinities, sexualization, popular culture, the increasing visibility of LGBTQ youth, and the digital world.

The contributors examine the back-and-forth of adult and institutional concerns, policies, and practices as they both govern and are influenced by youths' sexual subjectivities, identities, actions, and activism. The first volume historicizes "official knowledge" and cultural constructions of youth sexualities; offers examples of the "framing" of youth through research, film, the media, and transnational NGOs; and foregrounds youths' experiences of sexuality in everyday life. The second volume considers adult and youth activism. Through first-person and analytical accounts, the book offers multiple perspectives of ways in which adult professionals, such as youth workers and researchers, can work side-by-side with youth rather than "above" or "in front of" them."

Interesting chapter in the book:

A History of Constructions of Child and Youth Sexualities: Innocence, Vulnerability, and the Construction of the Normative Citizen Subject

KH Robinson, C Davies - Youth Sexualities: Public Feelings and Contemporary …, 2018

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