Super girls, gangstas, freeters, and xenomaniacs : gender and modernity in global youth cultures / edited by Susan Dewey and Karen J. Brison.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dewey, Susan, editor.

Brison, Karen J., editor.

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

Gender and globalization

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Youth--Cross-cultural studies.

Youth.

Youth--Social conditions.

Young women--Cross-cultural studies.

Young women.

Civilization, Modern--21st century.

Civilization, Modern.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 296 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Super girls, gangstas, freeters, & xenomaniacs : gender & modernity in global youth cultures

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, 2012.

Summary:

Composed of twelve chapters based upon ethnographic research in Africa, Asia, and Oceania, this volume explores the gendered cultural diversity of how young people experience modernity. The first part features chapters on mobile phones as agents transforming gender norms for young Mozambicans and on economic independence and feminine beauty among young Namibian women. In part two, contributors describe childrens use of English and Pentecostal ideology as agents of social mobility in rural Fiji and examine androgyny, social mobility, and group membership for youth on reality television shows in China and India. Part three probes gendered discourses of "citizen warrior" versus "citizen shopper" in Cyprus and describes the moral panic surrounding child sex tourism in India. The last part analyzes how New Zealanders make sense of a growing youth activist movement, how young AustralianPapua New Guineans embrace their parents traditional culture, and how Tongan male adolescents in the United States construct gang identities. --Publisher description.

Contents:

Mobile phones and the "commercialization" of relationships : expressions of masculinity in southern Mozambique / Julie Soleil Archambault

Claiming youth, the modern feminine self, and womanhood in northern Namibia / Sayumi Yamakawa

Still a child? Liminality and the construction of youthful masculinities in Japan / Emma E. Cook

Gendered modernities among rual indigenous Fijian children / Karen J. Brison

Androgynous beauty, virtual sisterhood : stardom, fandom, and Chinese talent shows under globalization / Hui Faye Xiao

Teenage girls and global television : performing the "new" Hindi film song / Shikha Jhingan

Xenomania : globalized and gendered discourses of the nation in Cyprus / Miranda Christou

Children as barometers of social decay : perceptions of sex tourism in Goa, India / Susan Dewey and Lindi Conover

Negotiating agency : local youth activism in Aotearoa-New Zealand / Fiona Beals and Bronwyn Wood

Imagining Papua New Guinean cultural modernities in urban Australia : youth, cultural schools, and informal education / Jacquelyn A. Lewis-Harris

Islanders among a sea of gangs : diasporic masculinities and gang culture among Tongan American youth / Joseph Esser.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-281) and index.

Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])

ISBN:

9780815651697

Publisher Number:

7286412

2027/heb34599 hdl

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.