[ecrea] two new books on queer youth cultures and media:

Announcing two new books on queer youth cultures and media:

> Queer Youth Cultures
> Edited by Susan Driver (SUNY Press)
> Engaging a wide range of cultural practices, 
> including zine-making, drag performance, online 
> chatting, music, gay porn, and organizing 
> resistance, the essays in Susan Driver¢s Queer 
> Youth Cultures explore the creative, political, 
> energetic, and artistic worlds of contemporary 
> queer youth. The research in this collection 
> bridges the perspectives of academics and queer 
> youth, and the voices of the youth resonate 
> throughout the analyses of their communities and 
> lives. Through a variety of methodological 
> approaches, the contributors bring into focus 
> the institutional regulations of youth sexuality 
> and gender, the complex and changing embodied 
> experiences of queer youth, and the visual and 
> textual languages through which the experiences 
> of the youth are represented. Rather than seeing 
> queer youth as victims, contributors celebrate 
> the creative ways that sexual and gender 
> minority youth forge subcultures and challenge 
> exclusionary and heteronormative ways of understanding young people.
>
> http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61565
> Queer Girls and Popular Culture
> Reading, Resisting, and Creating Media
> By Susan Driver (Peter Lang)
> Queer Girls and Popular Culture explores 
> relationships between media representations and 
> the creative media receptions of lesbian, 
> bisexual, transgender, and questioning teens and 
> young adults. Drawing upon examples from a wide 
> range of media including television, film, 
> magazines, Internet, and music, this book pays 
> critical attention to the emergence of visual 
> images and narratives of girls desiring girls. 
> Framed as a dialogue, the voices of queer girls 
> are interpreted in response to their increasing 
> public visibility and commodification within 
> mainstream media as well as the development of 
> alternative popular cultural engagements. This 
> book combines youth and media studies with 
> feminist and queer theories, bridging previously 
> separate areas of theory and research to 
> understand queer girls as dynamic cultural subjects.
>
> http://www.peterlang.net/index.cfm?vID=67936&vLang=E&vHR=1&vUR=2&vUUR=1

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