ISBN:
1838608613
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9781838608613
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 173 pages)
,
illustrations
Series Statement:
Library of gender and popular culture 12
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cann, Victoria Girls like this, boys like that
DDC:
305.3083
Keywords:
Sex role in children
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Gender identity
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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Gender identity
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Mass media and youth
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Popular culture
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Sex in popular culture
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Youth
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Society
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Great Britain
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Introduction -- 1. Researching Youth Taste Cultures: The Study -- 2. Fitting in at School: The Context of Youth Taste Cultures -- 3. What is Gender? Theorising Gender and Young People's Lived Experiences -- 4. Boys Like This: Masculinity and Appropriate Tastes for Boys -- 5. Girls Like That: Femininity and Appropriate Tastes for Girls -- 6. Living on the Edge: Regulating and Transgressing Gender Appropriate Taste -- Conclusions and Recommendations.
Abstract:
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-cultureal preferences that have traditionally only been associated with the opposite sex--back cover
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-168) and index
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