Girls Like This, Boys Like That: The Reproduction of Gender in Contemporary Youth Cultures

Author:   Victoria Cann (University of East Anglia, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781784535643


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   21 June 2018
Format:   Hardback
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Girls Like This, Boys Like That: The Reproduction of Gender in Contemporary Youth Cultures


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What role does taste play in contemporary youth culture? How do young people reproduce, or alternatively, reject gender norms? Using new research and the work of renowned theorists such as Judith Butler and Pierre Bourdieu, Victoria Cann argues that popular culture affects young people's experiences of masculinity and femininity and forces them to navigate a social minefield in which they are pressured to display tastes deemed appropriate for their gender. Combining her own unique empirical research with a strong theoretical framework, Cann widens and links the fields of gender and taste studies to show the everyday reality of twenty-first-century youth and their apprehensions - especially those of young boys- about participating in activities, or embracing pop-cultural preferences that have traditionally only been associated with the opposite sex.

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Author:   Victoria Cann (University of East Anglia, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.372kg
ISBN:  

9781784535643


ISBN 10:   1784535648
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   21 June 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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`Drawing on ambitious ethnographic research with over 100 British youth, Victoria Cann explores how taste articulation functions to regulate and reproduce gender norms within teenage culture in the UK. Through her astute analysis of gendered tastes from football to One Direction and gendered practices from shunning to fangirling, Cann guides the reader through the halls of the contemporary high school, interrogating the relationship between gender, youth, and cultural tastes that play out there. Indeed, Girls Like This, Boys Like That reminds us that youth taste matters, and that we should be paying more attention'. - Jessalynn Keller, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Media and Film, University of Calgary


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Victoria Cann is a Lecturer in Humanities at the University of East Anglia. Her research is concerned with the processes through which identity is reproduced, and feminist politics more broadly. She has published on the topic of gendered audiences, identity politics and the politics of representation. She teaches courses in media and cultural politics and she undertakes a range of feminist engagement work in the community.

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