Queer youth cultures / edited by Susan Driver.
Engaging a wide range of cultural practices, including zine-making, drag performance, online chatting, music, gay pom, and organizing resistance, the essays in Susan Driver's Queer Youth Cultures explore the creative, political, energetic, and artistic worlds of contemporary queer youth. The re...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
[2008]
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| Series: | SUNY series, interruptions--border testimony(ies) and critical discourse/s.
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| Summary: | Engaging a wide range of cultural practices, including zine-making, drag performance, online chatting, music, gay pom, and organizing resistance, the essays in Susan Driver's Queer Youth Cultures explore the creative, political, energetic, and artistic worlds of contemporary queer youth. The research in this collection bridges the perspectives of academics and queer youth, and the voices of the youth resonate throughout the analyses of their communities and lives. Through a variety of methodological approaches, the contributors bring into focus the institutional regulations of youth sexuality and gender, the complex and changing embodied experiences of queer youth, and the visual and textual languages through which the experiences of the youth are represented. Rather than seeing queer youth as victims, contributors celebrate the creative ways that sexual and gender minority youth forge subcultures and challenge exclusionary and heteronormative ways of understanding young people. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0791473376 9780791473375 0791473384 9780791473382 |