List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

1 Introduction: Generation X, Youth Culture, and Identity

Jonathon S. Epstein

2 Teenage Sexuality, Body Politics, and the Pedagogy of Display

Henry A. Giroux

3 Teens and Schools: Who Is Falling through the Cracks and Why

Sarah Nixon-Ponder

4 Beavis and Butt-Head: No Future for Postmodern Youth

Steven Best

Douglas Kellner

5 The Industrial Identity Crisis: the Failure of a Newly Forming Subculture to Identify Itself

David A. Locher

6 Identity and Status Stratification in Deadhead Subculture

Robert Sardiello

7 "Don't Need You:" Rethinking Identity Politics and Separatism from a Grrrl Perspective

Mary Celeste Kearney

8 "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle:" Pan-capitalism and Alternative Rock

Javier Santiago-Lucerna

9 "This Ain't No Disco"... or Is It? Youth Culture and the Rave Phenomenon

Lori Tomlinson

10 Growing up Punk: Meaning and Commitment Careers in a Contemporary Youth Subculture

Linda Andes

11 "When It All Changed:" Cyberpunk and the Baby Boom's Rejection of Religious Institutions

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

Bruce K. Friesen

Warren Helfrich

13 Incubus: Male Songwriters' Portrayal of Women's Sexuality in Pop Metal Music

Lisa J. Sloat

14 Explorations in Youth Culture. Amateur Stripping: What We Know and What We Don't

Thomas C. Calhoun

Julie Ann Harms Cannon

Rhonda Fisher

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