Queer Youth Cultures (Suny Series, Interruptions: Border Testimony & Critical Discourse) [Paperback]

Susan Driver (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0791473384 | ISBN-13: 978-0791473382 | Publication Date: March 20, 2008

Essays explore the contemporary contexts, activism, and cultural productions of queer youth and their communities.

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Engaging a wide range of cultural practices, including zine-making, drag performance, online chatting, music, gay porn, 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.

"This book begins with the premise that queer youth are not pathologized, can and do exercise agency, and are legitimate actors in the public sphere. I am extremely pleased to see a book that successfully integrates transgender youth, politics, and culture as these topics have been sorely missing in ostensibly LGBT work." -- Susan Talburt, Director, Women's Studies Institute, Georgia State University

"The essays provide an analytical rather than a merely celebratory view of the projects and cultures as well as critiques of mainstream LGBT cultures. The collection is well timed as LGBT youth issues become more visible and mainstream LGBT politics become increasingly assimilated." -- Gwendolyn Alden Dean, Director, LGBT Resource Center, Cornell University

Contributors include Cass Bird, Megan Davidson, Cristyn Davies, Susan Driver, Andil Gosine, Judith Halberstam, Valerie Harwood, Anna Hickey-Moody, Mark Lipton, Ziysah D. Markson, David McInnes, Mary Louise Rasmussen, Jackie Regales, Melissa Rigney, Neal Ritchie, Jama Shelton, Zeb J. Tortorici, and Angela Wilson. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

About the Author

Susan Driver is Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at York University and the author of Queer Girls and Popular Culture: Reading, Resisting, and Creating Media. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 316 pages
• Publisher: State University of New York Press (March 20, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0791473384
• ISBN-13: 978-0791473382
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #957,185 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)