Super Girls, Gangstas, Freeters, and Xenomaniacs: Gender and Modernity in Global Youth Culture

By: Susan Dewey

Book Overview

In recent years, there has been a proliferation of scholarly interest in youth cultures, with much of the focus on questions of how young people shape and are shaped by the experiences of globalization in the modern age. As adolescents everywhere struggle to redefine their gendered and ethnic identities, they are keenly aware that they operate on an uneven global terrain. Transnational images of modern youth that stress independence and self-cultivation...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815632746
• ISBN13: 9780815632740
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"