Youth, sex, and government /
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| Author / Creator: | Tait, Gordon, 1960- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Peter Lang, c2000. |
| Description: | viii, 244 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Eruptions, 1091-8590 ; vol. 3 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4372769 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: A New Approach to Youth Research
- Chapter 1. Beyond Subcultures
- Subculture Theory: The Dominant Paradigm
- Criticizing the CCCS Youth Orthodoxy
- A Marxist Understanding of Power and Ideology
- Foucault, Truth, and Power
- Reassessing Hegemony
- Detotalizing Social History: Some Further Implications
- Adjusting the Focus on Subcultures
- From "Youth Homelessness" to "Streetkids"
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2. Youth, Sex, and Government
- Governmentality
- Sexuality and the Emergence of Childhood
- Youth, Sex, and Governmentality
- Youth, Sex, and the Limits of Government
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3. Governing the "At-Risk" Youth
- The Rhetoric of Risk and the Problem of Youth
- Risk and Government
- The Dissolution of the Subject
- Increasing the Scope of Government
- From Practitioner to Administrator
- An Alternative Interpretation of the Finn Report
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Sexing the Self
- The Person, the Individual, and the Self
- Youth and Self-government
- Manuals in Self-management
- Magazines, Sex, and Identity Management
- Modes of Persuasion
- Practices of the Self
- Youth, Sex, and Maturity
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5. Governing the Body, Governing the Self
- Fasting and the Self
- Cultivating a Self: The Dietetics of Antiquity
- Historicizing Fasting
- Women, Piety, and Fasting
- Setting Limits to Anorexia Nervosa
- Government and the Invention of Anorexia Nervosa
- Government, Health, and Diet
- Medicine, Nosology, Hysteria
- Shaping Anorexia Nervosa as a Disease Entity
- Conclusion
- Conclusion: Youth, Government, and Culture
- Bibliography
- Index
