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Dewey & Brison - Super Girls, Gangstas, Freeters, and Xenomaniacs: Gender and Modernity in Global Youth Cultures (Gender and Globalization) - 9780815632740 - V9780815632740
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Super Girls, Gangstas, Freeters, and Xenomaniacs: Gender and Modernity in Global Youth Cultures (Gender and Globalization)

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Description for Super Girls, Gangstas, Freeters, and Xenomaniacs: Gender and Modernity in Global Youth Cultures (Gender and Globalization) Hardcover. A compelling look at the ways in which youth, gender and gender identities are being transformed around the globe. Editor(s): Dewey, Susan; Brison, Karen. Series: Syracuse Uni: Gender and Globalization. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFFS; JFSP2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 594.

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 ... Read more

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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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Syracuse Uni: Gender and Globalization
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815632740
SKU
V9780815632740
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