ABSTRACT
Sexual citizenship is a powerful concept associated with debates about recognition and exclusion, agency, respect and accountability. For young people in general and for gender and sexually diverse youth in particular, these debates are entangled with broader imaginings of social transitions: from ‘child’ to ‘adult’and from ‘unreasonable subject’ to one ‘who can consent’. This international and interdisciplinary collection identifies and locates struggles for recognition and inclusion in particular contexts and at particular moments in time, recognising that sexual and gender diverse young people are neither entirely vulnerable nor self-reliant.
Focusing on the numerous domains in which debates about youth, sexuality and citizenship are enacted and contested, Youth, Sexuality and Sexual Citizenship explores young people’s experiences in diverse but linked settings: in the family, at school and in college, in employment, in social media and through engagement with health services. Bookended by reflections from Jeffrey Weeks and and Susan Talburt, the book’s empirically grounded chapters also engage with the key debates outlined in it's scholarly introduction.
This innovative book is of interest to students and scholars of gender and sexuality, health and sex education, and youth studies, from a range of disciplinary and professional backgrounds, including sociology, education, nursing, social work and youth work.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|2 pages
Kinship
part 2|2 pages
Schooling and education
chapter 4|14 pages
Lawrence ‘Larry’ King and too muchness
part 3|2 pages
Well-being and health
part 4|2 pages
Communication technologies
chapter 10|17 pages
Twenty years of ‘cyberqueer’
chapter 11|16 pages
Taking off the risk goggles
chapter 12|17 pages
Queer youth refugees and the pursuit of the happy object
part 5|2 pages
Work
chapter 14|15 pages
Gay, famous and working hard on YouTube
part 6|2 pages
Sex and gender/sexual relationships