Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies
|
Buy Now
Chronic Youth - Disability, Sexuality, and U.S. Media Cultures of Rehabilitation (Paperback)
Loot Price: R732
Discovery Miles 7 320
|
|
Chronic Youth - Disability, Sexuality, and U.S. Media Cultures of Rehabilitation (Paperback)
Series: NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
The teenager has often appeared in culture as an anxious figure,
the repository for American dreams and worst nightmares, at once on
the brink of success and imminent failure. Spotlighting the
"troubled teen" as a site of pop cultural, medical, and
governmental intervention, Chronic Youth traces the teenager as a
figure through which broad threats to the normative order have been
negotiated and contained. Examining television, popular novels,
science journalism, new media, and public policy, Julie Passanante
Elman shows how the teenager became a cultural touchstone for
shifting notions of able-bodiedness, heteronormativity, and
neoliberalism in the late twentieth century. By the late 1970s,
media industries as well as policymakers began developing new
problem-driven 'edutainment' prominently featuring narratives of
disability--from the immunocompromised The Boy in the Plastic
Bubble to ABC's After School Specials and teen sick-lit. Although
this conjoining of disability and adolescence began as a
storytelling convention, disability became much more than a
metaphor as the process of medicalizing adolescence intensified by
the 1990s, with parenting books containing neuro-scientific
warnings about the incomplete and volatile "teen brain."
Undertaking a cultural history of youth that combines disability,
queer, feminist, and comparative media studies, Elman offers a
provocative new account of how American cultural producers,
policymakers, and medical professionals have mobilized discourses
of disability to cast adolescence as a treatable "condition." By
tracing the teen's uneven passage from postwar rebel to 21st
century patient, Chronic Youth shows how teenagers became a
lynchpin for a culture of perpetual rehabilitation and neoliberal
governmentality.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.