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Epstein′s collection of prominent writers and researchers will give you a better understanding of why youths, in particular, are prone to collective identity, and how they achieve their sense of self through fashion, music, sports and entertainment.
List of Contributors vii
Acknowledgments x
1 Introduction: Generation X, Youth Culture, and Identity 1Jonathon S. Epstein
2 Teenage Sexuality, Body Politics, and the Pedagogy of Display 24Henry A. Giroux
3 Teens and Schools: Who is Falling through the Cracks and Why 56Sarah Nixon–Ponder
4 Beavis and Butt–Head: No Future for Postmodern Youth 74Steven Best and Douglas Kellner
5 The Industrial Identity Crisis: the Failure of a Newly Forming subculture to Identity Itself 100David A. Locher
6 Identity and Status Stratification in Deadhead Subculture 118Robert Sardiello
7 Don t Need you: Rethinking Identity Politics and Separatism from a Grrrl Perspective 148Mary Celeste Kearney
8 Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle: Pan–capitalism and Alternative Rock 189Javier Santiago–Lucerna
9 This Ain t No Disco or is it? Youth culture and the Rave Phenomenon 195Lori Tomlinson
10 Growing up Punk: Meaning and Commitment Careers on a Contemporary Youth Subculture 212Linda Andes
11 When It All Changed: Cyberpunk and the Baby Boom s Rejection of Religious Institutions 232Samuel R. Smith
12 Social Justice and Sexism for Adolescents: a Content Analysis of Lyrical Themes and Gender Presentations in Canadian Heavy Metal Music, 1985–1991 263Bruce K. Friesen and Warren Helfrich
13 Incubus: Male Songwriters Portrayal of Women s Sexuality in Pop Metal Music 286Lisa J. Sloat
14 Explorations in Youth Culture. Amateur Stripping: What We Know and What We Don t 302Thomas C. Calhoun, Julie Ann Harms Cannon and Rhonda Fisher
Index 327
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