Author : Gordon Tait
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Book Synopsis Youth, Sex, and Government by : Gordon Tait
Download or read book Youth, Sex, and Government written by Gordon Tait and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly twenty-five years, the field of youth studies has employed the same conceptual tools to explain the conduct of young people, tools that inexorably lead to the same recurrent conclusions - youth equals resistance, youth equals alienation, youth equals problem. Youth, Sex, and Government offers a way out of this theoretical Groundhog Day. Starting with the familiar notion of youth subcultures, but also addressing topics such as young women's magazines, «at-risk» youth, anorexia nervosa, and HIV/AIDS programs, this book examines the way in which youth is produced as both a governmental object and a set of practices of the self. Employing the ideas of Foucault, Rose, and Mauss, this new approach attempts to reinvigorate what is an important - yet slumbering - area of research.