The Transformation of Sexuality: Gender and Identity in Contemporary Youth Culture
| By: | Johansson, Thomas, Professor |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9780754649403 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781409490784 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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How do contemporary young people construct their sexual identities? Are young people sexually liberated, or is human sexuality increasingly controlled and manipulated by commercial forces?
Thomas Johansson explores the construction of sexual identities by young people as part of a wider process of identity construction, combining the work of key authors such as Elias and Foucault with original and revealing empirical material drawn from an extensive survey of the views of 1300 sixteen to nineteen year olds, combined with a number of qualitative in-depth interviews with different sexual subcultures. Topics covered include fidelity and infidelity, love, homosexuality, pornography and beauty ideals.
Designed to look beyond media images and popular prejudices the book illustrates how young people of both genders, of different nationalities and of different group allegiances view and relate to their own sexuality.