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Unscripting the present : the security panic of queer youth sexuality / Timothy Gitzen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gitzen, Timothy, 1985- author.
- Series:
- SUNY series in queer politics and cultures.
- SUNY Series in Queer Politics and Cultures Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex in popular culture--United States.
- Sex in popular culture.
- Youth--Sexual behavior--United States.
- Youth.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Security panic of queer youth sexuality
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- Interrogates contemporary sex panics in the United States, looking especially at popular culture texts to conceptualize queer youth survival strategies.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: Of Futures and Presents
- Introduction: Panic Scripting
- Sex and Children
- Security Panics
- A Messy Primer
- Unscripting: A Methodology
- Scripting the Book
- Alien Abductions
- Chapter One Securitizing Sex
- Sex Education: A Commentary
- Old Laws, New Tricks
- New Laws, Old Tricks
- Do Say Gay
- If You See Something, Say Something: An Aside
- Securitizing Sex
- Chapter Two Radical Presentism
- On Epistemology and Worlding
- The "Thing" of Sexuality
- Minute by Minute
- Antidote for Shame
- Chapter Three Relationality and the Contractual Self
- Conduits of Coming Out
- Narratives of Queer Individualism
- A Different Sort of Narrative
- Coming Out: A Comparison
- Other Matters
- Chapter Four The Ascendancy of Queer Pleasure
- Normalizing Queerness, Exceptionalizing Sex
- Sexual Projects
- Let's Talk about Sex
- Sexual Banality
- Don't Panic, It's Just Sex!
- Chapter Five The American Security Apparatus
- Security Participation
- Neoliberally Nice
- Bullies, Sex, War
- Lockdown
- Queer States of Security
- Coda: World Ending
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-200) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9798855801668
- OCLC:
- 1511108545
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