Gender, Youth and Culture: Young Masculinities and Femininities

ISBN-13: 9780230303553 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str.

Anoop Nayak

Opis

The question of how boys become men or how girls become women may seem simple, but the answers can be complex. This new edition draws upon rich examples from research, popular media, and global accounts, to explore how gender is produced, consumed, regulated and performed in young lives today.

Spis treści

PART I: UNDERSTANDING GENDER: CONCEPTS, THEORY AND ACTION Introducing Gender Researching Gender: Towards Global Ethnographies Young Masculinities in 'Crisis' Young Femininities and the New Girl Order Gender in a Global Context PART II: PERFORMING GENDER: PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTION AND REGULATION Producing and Regulating Gender Consuming Gender Performing Gender Ending Gender, Undoing Sex.

O autorze

ANOOP NAYAK is Professor in Social and Cultural Geography at Newcastle University, UK. He is author of the critically acclaimed ethnography Race, Place and Globalisation: Youth Cultures in a Changing World and co-author of Geographical Thought: An Introduction to Thought and Ideas in Human Geography (with Alex Jeffrey).

MARY JANE KEHILY is Professor of Gender and Education at the Open University, UK. She is author of Sexuality, Gender and Schooling and co-author of Making Modern Mothers (with Rachel Thomson, Lucy Hadfield and Sue Sharpe).