Gender, Sex, and Sexuality among Contemporary Youth: Generation Sex Vol: 23

Patricia Neff Claster
Edinboro University, USA

Sampson Lee Blair
University of Buffalo, USA


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Format:
Hardback
ISBN:
9781787146143
Published:
Publisher:
Emerald Publishing Limited
Dimensions:
272 pages - 152 x 229mm
Series:
Sociological Studies of Children and Youth
List price £82.99 List price €110.99 List price $141.99
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Researchers, practitioners, and parents have increasingly become concerned about issues related to sex, gender, and sexuality among children and adolescents. With access to the Internet, young people around the globe can readily obtain virtually any and all information they seek concerning sex and sexuality. In many cultures, the clothing and fashions of children, adolescents, and young adults are increasingly merging, leaving little clear distinction between them, and creating what some consider to be the ‘sexualization’ of children’s and adolescents’ clothing. Coinciding with such changes, young people are more openly expressing their own gender identity, often leading to considerable social debate about feminine and masculine identities, and also transgender identities. 

This collection provides unique insight into identity formation for contemporary youth and examines the evolving norms concerning sex, gender, and sexuality in the lives of children and adolescents addressing topics including the development of gender identity, sexual behavior among youth, LGBT youth, transgender youth, parental and peer influences upon the development of gender and gender identity and dating violence.

1, 'Dare to be Different': How Religious Groups Frame and Enact Appropriate Sexuality and Gender Norms among Young Adults; Rhys H. Williams, Courtney Ann Irby and R. Stephen Warner   
2, Estimating the Status and Needs of Homeless LGBT Adolescents: Advocacy, Identity, and the Dialectics of Support; Timothy Stablein 
3, The Intersex Kids Are All Right? Diagnosis Disclosure and the Experiences of Intersex Youth; Georgiann Davis and Chris Wakefield 
4, Examining the Family Transition: How Parents of Gender-Diverse Youth Develop Trans-Affirming Attitudes; Krysti N. Ryan 
5, Let’s Talk about Sex for Money: An Exploration of Economically Motivated Relationships among Young, Black Women in Canada; Ciann Wilson and Sarah Flicker 
6, Educational Attainment and Sexual Orientation in Adolescent and Young Adult Males; Mollie T. McQuillan 
7, “To Feel Him Love Me”: Emerging Intersections of Identity, Queerness and Differing Ability; Rebecca G. Harvey, Paul D. Levatino and Julie A. Liefeld 
8, Sexual Debut Education: Cultivating A Healthy Approach to Young People’s Sexual Experiences; Yvonne Vissing
9, Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Teen Dating Violence Victims' Responses to Partner Suicidal Ideation; Jessica M. Fitzpatrick 
10, Two by Two: Heteronormativity and the Noah Story for Children; Sarah M. Corse 
Patricia Neff Claster is Associate Professor of Sociology at Edinboro University, USA. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of family and intimate relationships, gender and children and youth studies. Her active research endeavours have been recognized with a nomination for the Edinboro Scholar of the Year Award for the last two years in row. Her publications include (edited with Sampson Lee Blair) Visions in the 21st Century Family and (edited with Sampson Lee Blair and Samuel M. Claster) Technology and Youth: Growing Up in a Digital World

Sampson Lee Blair is Associate Professor in Family Sociology at The State University of New York, Buffalo, USA. He has served as Chair of the Children and Youth research section of the American Sociological Association, as Senior Editor of Sociological Inquiry, Editor of the book series Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research, and serves on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Divorce and Remarriage, Journal of Family Issues, Marriage and Family Review, Social Justice Research, Sociological Inquiry, International Journal of Criminology and Sociology, and Sociological Viewpoints.

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