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This book identifies and locates sexual and gender diverse young people's struggles for recognition and inclusion in particular contexts, exploring their experiences in diverse but linked settings: the family, at school and in college, in employment, in social media and through engagement with health services.
List of contents
Foreword
Introduction
Section 1: Kinship
Chapter 1. Family, kinship and citizenship: Change and continuity in LGBQ lives
Chapter 2. Queer interruptions: Policing belonging in the carceral state
Chapter 3. Re-imagining, reclaiming, renaming
Section 2: Schooling and Education
Chapter 4. Lawrence ‘Larry’ King and too muchness: Complicating sexual citizenship through the embodied practices of a queer/trans student of colour
Chapter 5. Beyond cultural racism: Challenges for an anti-racist sexual education and youth
Chapter 6. Regulating sexual morality: The stigmatisation of LGB youth in Hong Kong
Section 3: Well-Being and Health
Chapter 7. Divergent pathways to inclusion for transgender and intersex youth
Chapter 8. Sexualities education and sexual citizenship: A materialist approach
Chapter 9. Constraints and alliances: LGBTQ sexuality and the neoliberal school
Section 4: Communication Technologies
Chapter 10. Twenty years of ‘cyberqueer’: The enduring significance of the Internet for young LGBTIQ+ people
Chapter 11. Taking off the risk goggles: Exploring the intersection of young people’s sexual and digital citizenship in sexual health promotion
Chapter 12. Queer youth refugees and the pursuit of the happy object: Documentary, technology and vulnerability
Section 5: Work
Chapter 13. Young LGBTQ teachers: Work and sexual citizenship in contradictory times
Chapter 14. Gay, famous and working hard on YouTube: Influencers, queer microcelebrity publics, and discursive activism
Chapter 15. Mediating aspirant religious-sexual futures: In God’s hands?
Section 6: Sex and Gender/Sexual Relationships
Chapter 16. Enabling fluid forms of sexual citizenship? Navigating the presence and absence of queer sex in Skins
Chapter 17. ‘Some teachers are homophobic, you know, because they just don’t know any better’: Students reimagining power relations in schools.
Chapter 18. The proliferation of gender and sexual identities, categories and labels among young people: Emergent taxonomies
Afterword: Youth and Scenes of Sexual Citizenship
About the author
Peter Aggleton is an emeritus professor at UNSW Sydney, Australia; an honorary distinguished professor at The Australian National University, an adjunct professor in the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia; and an honorary professor at University College London, UK.
Rob Cover is an associate professor in media and communication in the School of Social Sciences at The University of Western Australia.
Deana Leahy is a senior lecturer in health education in the Faculty of Education at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
Daniel Marshall is a senior lecturer in literature in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia.
Mary Lou Rasmussen is a professor of sociology in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at The Australian National University in Canberra, Australia.
Summary
This book identifies and locates sexual and gender diverse young people’s struggles for recognition and inclusion in particular contexts, exploring their experiences in diverse but linked settings: the family, at school and in college, in employment, in social media and through engagement with health services.
