Youth and Sexualities

These volumes offer an in-depth analysis of youth sexualities as they shape and are shaped by public feelings and by American social, cultural, and political contexts. • Focuses on a range of youth sexualities and experiences • Offers an innovative analysis of the role of public feelings to show how adults monitor youth sexualities and how youth actively respond • Provides researchers, policymakers, activists, NGO workers, educators, and communities new lenses through which to understand youth sexualities • Shows how activists work to include and address youth perspectives on difficult or unpopular topics • Incorporates the contributors' expertise in disciplines ranging from women's, gender, and sexuality studies to educational and cultural studies to communication, rhetoric, anthropology, and sociology • Connects research in youth sexualities to the increasingly influential "affective turn" perspective of critical theory