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Super Girls, Gangstas, Freeters, and Xenomaniacs - Gender and Modernity in Global Youth Culture (Hardcover)
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Super Girls, Gangstas, Freeters, and Xenomaniacs - Gender and Modernity in Global Youth Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Gender and Globalization
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In recent years, there has been a proliferation of scholarly
interest in youth cultures, with much of the focus on questions of
how young people shape and are shaped by the experiences of
globalisation in the modern age. As adolescents everywhere struggle
to redefine their gendered and ethnic identities, they are keenly
aware that they operate on an uneven global terrain. Transnational
images of modern youth that stress independence and
self-cultivation often exist in stark contrast to the actual local
limitations many youth experience. Composed of twelve chapters
based upon ethnographic research in Africa, Asia, and Oceania, this
volume explores the gendered cultural diversity of how young people
experience modernity. The first part features chapters on mobile
phones as agents transforming gender norms for young Mozambicans
and on economic independence and feminine beauty among young
Namibian women. In part two, contributors describe children’s use
of English and Pentecostal ideology as agents of social mobility in
rural Fiji and examine androgyny, social mobility, and group
membership for youth on reality television shows in China and
India. Part three probes gendered discourses of “citizen
warrior” versus “citizen shopper” in Cyprus and describes the
moral panic surrounding child sex tourism in India. The last part
analyses how New Zealanders make sense of a growing youth activist
movement, how young Australian–Papua New Guineans embrace their
parents’ traditional culture, and how Tongan male adolescents in
the United States construct gang identities.
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Imprint: |
Syracuse University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Gender and Globalization |
Release date: |
August 2012 |
Firstpublished: |
June 2012 |
Authors: |
Susan Dewey
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Dimensions: |
237 x 163 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
296 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8156-3274-0 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-8156-3274-6 |
Barcode: |
9780815632740 |
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