Dewey, Susan.

Super Girls, Gangstas, Freeters, and Xenomaniacs : Gender and Modernity in Global Youth Culture. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (311 pages) - Gender and Globalization Series . - Gender and Globalization Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part One Gender and Generation -- 1 Mobile Phones and the "Commercialization" of Relationships -- 2 Claiming Youth, the Modern Feminine Self, and Womanhood in Northern Namibia -- 3 Still a Child? -- Part Two Mass-Mediated Modernities -- 4 Gendered Modernities among Rural Indigenous Fijian Children -- 5 Androgynous Beauty, Virtual Sisterhood -- 6 Teenage Girls and Global Television -- Part Three Youth as a Symbol of Modernity's Contentions -- 7 Xenomania -- 8 Children as Barometers of Social Decay -- Part Four Agency and Refi ning Youth Identities -- 9 Negotiating Agency -- 10 Imagining Papua New Guinean Cultural Modernities in Urban Australia -- 11 Islanders among a Sea of Gangs -- References Index -- References -- Index.

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Youth -- Cross-cultural studies.
Youth -- Social conditions.
Young women -- Cross-cultural studies.
Civilization, Modern -- 21st century.


Electronic books.

HQ796 -- .S897 2012eb

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