Queer youth cultures / edited by Susan Driver.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Driver, Susan.

Series:

SUNY series, interruptions--border testimony(ies) and critical discourse/s

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay youth.

Gay teenagers.

Gay people in popular culture.

Mass media and teenagers.

Physical Description:

vii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2008]

Summary:

Engaging a wide range of cultural practices, including zine-making, drag performance, online chatting, music, gay pom, and organizing resistance, the essays in Susan Driver's Queer Youth Cultures explore the creative, political, energetic, and artistic worlds of contemporary queer youth. The research in this collection bridges the perspectives of academics and queer youth, and the voices of the youth resonate throughout the analyses of their communities and lives. Through a variety of methodological approaches, the contributors bring into focus the institutional regulations of youth sexuality and gender, the complex and changing embodied experiences of queer youth, and the visual and textual languages through which the experiences of the youth are represented. Rather than seeing queer youth as victims, contributors celebrate the creative ways that sexual and gender minority youth forge subcultures and challenge exclusionary and heteronormative ways of understanding young people.

Contents:

What's that smell? queer temporalities and subcultural lives / Judith Halberstam

"The galaxy is gay" : examining the networks of lesbian punk rock subculture / Angela Wilson

Redefining realities through self-representational performance / Jama Shelton

My identity is fluid as fuck : transgender zine writers constructing themselves / Jackie Regales

Articulating sissy boy queerness within and against discourses of tolerance and pride / David McInnes and Cristyn Davies

How to be a real lesbian : The pink sofa and some fictions of identity / Anna Hickey-Moody, Mary Louise Rasmussen, and Valerie Harwood

Photo-essay / Cass Bird

Queer readings of popular culture : searching [to] out the subtext / Mark Lipton

Brandon goes to Hollywood : Boys don't cry and the transgender body in film / Melissa Rigney

Queering pornography : desiring youth, race, and fantasy in gay porn / Zeb J. Tortorici

FOBs, banana boy, and the gay pretenders : queer youth navigate sex, "race," and nation in Toronto, Canada / Andil Gosine

Rethinking the movement : trans youth activism in New York City and beyond / Megan Davidson

Principles of engagement : the anarchist influence on queer youth cultures / Neal Ritchie

Drag it out! how queer youth are transforming citizenship in Peterborough / Ziysah D. Markson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791473375

0791473376

9780791473382

0791473384

OCLC:

167489662