Table of Contents
List of Contributors vii
Acknowledgments x
1 Introduction: Generation X, Youth Culture, and Identity 1 Jonathon S. Epstein
2 Teenage Sexuality, Body Politics, and the Pedagogy of Display 24 Henry A. Giroux
3 Teens and Schools: Who is Falling through the Cracks and Why 56 Sarah Nixon-Ponder
4 Beavis and Butt-Head: No Future for Postmodern Youth 74 Steven Best and Douglas Kellner
5 The Industrial Identity Crisis: the Failure of a Newly Forming subculture to Identity Itself 100 David A. Locher
6 Identity and Status Stratification in Deadhead Subculture 118 Robert Sardiello
7 “Don’t Need you:” Rethinking Identity Politics and Separatism from a Grrrl Perspective 148 Mary Celeste Kearney
8 “Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle:” Pan-capitalism and Alternative Rock 189 Javier Santiago-Lucerna
9 “This Ain’t No Disco” … or is it? Youth culture and the Rave Phenomenon 195 Lori Tomlinson
10 Growing up Punk: Meaning and Commitment Careers on a Contemporary Youth Subculture 212 Linda Andes
11 “When It All Changed:” Cyberpunk and the Baby Boom’s Rejection of Religious Institutions 232 Samuel R. Smith
12 Social Justice and Sexism for Adolescents: a Content Analysis of Lyrical Themes and Gender Presentations in Canadian Heavy Metal Music, 1985-1991 263 Bruce K. Friesen and Warren Helfrich
13 Incubus: Male Songwriters’ Portrayal of Women’s Sexuality in Pop Metal Music 286 Lisa J. Sloat
14 Explorations in Youth Culture. Amateur Stripping: What We Know and What We Don’t 302 Thomas C. Calhoun, Julie Ann Harms Cannon and Rhonda Fisher
Index 327