Straight Edge: Hardcore Punk, Clean Living Youth, and Social Change

by Ross Haenfler

Book Overview

In this first in-depth sociological analysis of the movement, Ross Haenfler follows the lives of dozens of straight-edge youths, showing how for these young men and women, and thousands of others worldwide, the adoption of the straight-edge doctrine as a way to better themselves evolved into a broader mission to improve the world in which they live. Although the original definition of straight edge focused only on the rejection of mind-altering substances...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813538521
• ISBN13: 9780813538525
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"