Girls like this, boys like that.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cann, Victoria.

Series:

Library of gender and popular culture ; 12.

Library of gender and popular culture ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gender identity--Great Britain.

Gender identity.

Youth--Great Britain.

Youth.

Mass media and youth.

Sex in popular culture.

Great Britain.

Popular culture--Great Britain.

Popular culture.

Sex in popular culture--Great Britain.

Mass media and youth--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xviii, 173 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : I B Tauris, 2016.

Contents:

1 Researching Youth Taste Cultures: The Study p. 11

Methodological Reflections and Considerations p. 12

The Schools p. 13

The Norfolk Context p. 15

The Research Process p. 16

Exploratory Ethnography p. 16

Identity Pages p. 18

Focus Groups p. 23

Conducting the Focus Groups p. 24

Identity Page Prompts p. 27

Television Listings Exercise p. 29

Matching-Up Exercise p. 32

Looking Forward: Designing Research Methodologies for Youth Taste Culture Research p. 33

2 Fitting in at School: The Context of Youth Taste Cultures p. 35

Appropriateness in Contemporary Youth Taste Culture p. 36

Regulating Taste at High School p. 38

School as Hyper-Regulatory p. 39

'Shunned': The Consequences of Inappropriate Articulations p. 42

Fitting into What? p. 44

Strategies of 'Fitting In' p. 46

Not Fitting In p. 51

3 What is Gender? Theorising Gender and Young People's Lived Experiences p. 55

Conceptualising Identity p. 55

(Re)producing Gender p. 57

Queering Gender p. 58

Gender as Performance: Performing Gender p. 59

'I Needed a Gay': Young People's Conceptualisations of Gender p. 61

Gender in Norfolk: Geographically Situating Gender p. 62

The Sex/Gender Distinction p. 63

The Persistence of the Gender, Binary and its Knowability p. 68

Conflating Sexuality with Gender p. 69

4 Boys Like This: Masculinity and Appropriate Tastes for Boys p. 73

Theorising Masculinity and Boyhood(s): The Background p. 74

Hegemonic Masculinity Theory p. 75

Inclusive Masculinity Theory p. 76

Theorising and Understanding Boy Cultures: What We Know p. 78

Boys' Tastes, Masculinity and the Identity Pages p. 81

Masculine Value p. 82

Boys Like: Texts that Foreground Physicality p. 83

Boys Like: Violence, Conflict and Action p. 83

Boys Like: Sport p. 86

Boys Like: Music with Instruments p. 89

Boys Like: Sexy Girls p. 91

5 Girls Like That: Femininity and Appropriate Tastes for Girls p. 97

Theorising Girlhood and Femininity: The Background p. 99

Femininities p. 100

The Complexities of Femininity in Lived Realities p. 102

Girls' Tastes, Femininity and the Identity Pages p. 103

Feminine Value p. 104

Girls Like: Romance p. 106

Girls Like: Singing and the Singers p. 110

Girls' Tastes and the (Re) Production of Gender Through Articulation: The Feminine Value of Bitching p. 113

6 Living on the Edge: Regulating and Transgressing Gender Appropriate Taste p. 119

Gender Appropriate Tastes p. 121

Boys and Gender Inappropriate Taste p. 122

Too Little Masculinity: Responses to Prompt Five p. 123

Too Much Masculinity: Responses to Prompt Three p. 126

Little Resistances? p. 129

Girls and Gender Inappropriate Taste p. 132

Little Resistances? p. 134

Troubling? p. 137

Fangirling as Resistance? p. 137

Youth Taste Cultures and Hyper-Regulation p. 142

Hyper-Regulation p. 144

Taste and the (Re)Production of Gender p. 144

Reflections and Future Research p. 148

Reifying the Gender Binary? p. 150

Potential for Change? Recommendations and Cultural Sensitivities p. 151.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-168) and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: 9781786724328

ISBN:

1784535648

9781784535643

OCLC:

922452693