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Young People and Everyday Multiculturalism
Series: Critical Youth Studies
Unlike as with previous generations, diversity and multiculturalism are engrained in the lives of today’s urban youth. Within their culturally diverse urban environments, young people from different backgrounds now routinely encounter one another in their everyday lives and negotiate and contest...
Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
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Next Wave Cultures
Feminism, Subcultures, Activism
Series: Critical Youth Studies
Whereas once young women’s feminist activism could be easily identified, today this resistance seems obscure, transitory, and disorganized. In Next Wave Cultures, established and emerging scholars provide an interdisciplinary examination of young women’s multilayered lives. This collection...
Published November 25th 2007 by Routledge
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All About the Girl
Culture, Power, and Identity
This groundbreaking collection offers a complicated portrait of girls in the 21st Century. These are the riot grrls and the Spice Girls, the good girls and the bad girls who are creating their own "girl" culture and giving a whole new meaning to "grrl" power. Featuring provocative essays from...
Published September 18th 2004 by Routledge
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Future Girl
Young Women in the Twenty-First Century
Anita Harris creates a realistic portrait of the "new girl" that has appeared in the twenty-first century--she may still play with Barbie, but she is also likely to play soccer or basketball, be assertive and may even be sexually aware, if not active. Building on this new definition, Harris...
Published December 18th 2003 by Routledge