| Youth, Sex, and Government Contributor(s): McWilliam, Erica (Editor), Tait, Gordon (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820440493 ISBN-13: 9780820440491 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $41.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Children's Studies - Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 305.235 |
| LCCN: 98050413 |
| Series: Eruptions |
| Physical Information: 246 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Adolescence/Coming of Age |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: For nearly twenty-five years, the field of youth studies has employed the same conceptual tools to explain the conduct of young people, tools that inexorably lead to the same recurrent conclusions - youth equals resistance, youth equals alienation, youth equals problem. Youth, Sex, and Government offers a way out of this theoretical Groundhog Day. Starting with the familiar notion of youth subcultures, but also addressing topics such as young women's magazines, at-risk youth, anorexia nervosa, and HIV/AIDS programs, this book examines the way in which youth is produced as both a governmental object and a set of practices of the self. Employing the ideas of Foucault, Rose, and Mauss, this new approach attempts to reinvigorate what is an important - yet slumbering - area of research. |