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"These volumes offer an in-depth analysis of youth sexualities as they shape and are shaped by public feelings and by American social, cultural, and political contexts. The idea of youth sexuality makes many adults anxious, but sexuality is a very real part of youth and is the subject of many important social issues. Society now increasingly, sometimes grudgingly, recognizes youth as sexual actors; this collection examines contradictory public feelings related to youth sexualities, including perennial and new topics such as sex education, sexting, teen mothers, masculinities, sexualization, popular culture, the increasing visibility of LGBTQ youth, and the digital world. The contributors examine the back-and-forth of adult and institutional concerns, policies, and practices as they both govern and are influenced by youths' sexual subjectivities, identities, actions, and activism. The first volume historicizes ""official knowledge"" and cultural constructions of youth sexualities; offers examples of the ""framing"" of youth through research, film, the media, and transnational NGOs; and foregrounds youths' experiences of sexuality in everyday life. The second volume considers adult and youth activism. Through first-person and analytical accounts, the book offers multiple perspectives of ways in which adult professionals, such as youth workers and researchers, can work side-by-side with youth rather than ""above"" or ""in front of"" them. Focuses on a range of youth sexualities and experiences Offers an innovative analysis of the role of public feelings to show how adults monitor youth sexualities and how youth actively respond Provides researchers, policymakers, activists, NGO workers, educators, and communities new lenses through which to understand youth sexualities Shows how activists work to include and address youth perspectives on difficult or unpopular topics Incorporates the contributors’ expertise in disciplines ranging from women’s, gender, and sexuality studies to educational and cultural studies to communication, rhetoric, anthropology, and sociology Connects research in youth sexualities to the increasingly influential “affective turn” perspective of critical theory"

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Author:   Susan Talburt
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
ISBN:  

9781440850394

ISBN 10:   1440850399
Pages:   525
Publication Date:   08 June 2018
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Volume 2 Acknowledgments Introduction: Public Feelings and Youth Sexualities Susan Talburt Part 1 Toward an Archive of Activisms Chapter 1 Approaching Home: A Youth Worker Feeling Youth Work Sam Stiegler Chapter 2 Show Up and Show Out: Teaching Queer Latina Femme Pedagogies, Blogging Queer Black Femme Identities Ileana Jiménez Chapter 3 ""This Is Not a Safe Space"": SPARKing Change through Activist Theater Dana Edell, Tasfia Shawlin, and Nicosie Christophe Chapter 4 Scarleteen: Sex Ed for the Real World Sam Wall Chapter 5 Safe Schools Coalition and the Limits of Radical Reform: On Being a Proud Gay Communist in Australia Roz Ward Chapter 6 ""Our Survival Is Not Our Pastime"": An Interview with Shaena Johnson, Co-Director of BreakOUT! Interviewed by Susan Talburt Part 2 Gestures for an Otherwise: Youth, Adults, Research, and Action Chapter 7 Reproductive (In)Justice: State Violence, Young Parents in Child Welfare, and a Call for Family Integrity Lauren Silver and Janice Stiglich Chapter 8 Lost in Translation: Naming Practices and Public Feelings toward ""Gay Schools,"" Joseph J. Hall and Max A. Hope Chapter 9 Public Intimacy and the Native Youth Sexual Health Network Lisa Weems Chapter 10 Feeling World-Making Productions: Performances for a Livable Now and for a World Not Yet Here Londie T. Martin and Adela C. Licona Chapter 11 Radical Wills (and Won'ts): Critical Participatory Inqueery María Elena Torre, Michelle Fine, Allison Cabana, David M. Frost, Shear Avory, Teré Fowler-Chapman, and the What's Your Issue? Youth Research Collective About the Editor and Contributors Index"

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Susan Talburt, PhD, is professor and director of the Institute for Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University. She has published many books and articles.

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