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[ecrea] New Book: Girls Like This, Boys Like That

Thu Jul 19 06:06:43 GMT 2018



New book, /Girls Like This, Boys Like That: The reproduction of gender in contemporary youth cultures <https://www.ibtauris.com/en/Books/Society%20%20social%20sciences/Society%20%20culture%20general/Social%20groups/Gender%20studies%20gender%20groups/Girls%20Like%20This%20Boys%20Like%20That%20The%20Reproduction%20of%20Gender%20in%20Contemporary%20Youth%20Cultures?menuitem=%7B6EFB3D>/ has recently been released with IB Tauris.

Drawing on empirical research, this book explores the role that taste cultures play in the reproduction of gender during youth. It reveals the ways in which the gender binary persists, how masculinities and femininities function during this period of time, as well as the anxieties and pleasures young people gain from cultural consumption and the articulation of their tastes.

A review:

/‘Drawing on ambitious ethnographic research with over 100 British youth, Victoria Cann explores how taste articulation functions to regulate and reproduce gender norms within teenage culture in the UK. Through her astute analysis of gendered tastes from football to One Direction and gendered practices from “shunning” to “fangirling,” Cann guides the reader through the halls of the contemporary high school, interrogating the relationship between gender, youth, and cultural tastes that play out there. Indeed, Girls Like This, Boys Like That reminds us that youth taste matters, and that we should be paying more attention’/. -- *Jessalynn Keller*, Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Media and Film, University of Calgary


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