2018 Public Science Project Book Series Presents
Public Feelings and Contemporary Cultural Politics
Thursday, October 25th, 4:30p
365 5th Ave (@34th Street) Room 6304.01
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The idea of youth sexuality makes many adults anxious, but sexuality
is a very real part of youth and is the subject of many important social
issues. Society now increasingly, sometimes grudgingly, recognizes youth
as sexual actors; this collection examines contradictory public feelings
related to youth sexualities, including perennial and new topics such as
sex education, sexting, teen mothers, masculinities, sexualization, popular
culture, the increasing visibility of LGBTQ youth, and the digital world.
The contributors examine the back-and-forth of adult and institutional
concerns, policies, and practices as they both govern and are influenced
by youths’ sexual subjectivities, identities, actions, and activism. The first
volume historicizes “official knowledge” and cultural constructions of youth
sexualities; offers examples of the “framing” of youth through research, film,
the media, and transnational NGOs; and foregrounds youths’ experiences
of sexuality in everyday life. The second volume considers adult and youth
activism. Through first-person and analytical accounts, the book offers
multiple perspectives of ways in which adult professionals, such as youth
workers and researchers, can work side-by-side with youth rather than
“above” or “in front of” them.
Susan Talburt is professor and director of the Institute for Women’s,
Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University. She has
published books and articles about gender, sexuality, and educational
studies; youth studies; research methodologies; and recent theorizing
about “affect theory.” She has coedited (with Mary Lou Rasmussen
and Eric Rofes) Youth and Sexualities: Pleasure, Subversion, and
Insubordination in and out of Schools and (with Nancy Lesko) Keywords
in Youth Studies: Tracing Affects, Movements, and Knowledges.
Featuring Contributors:
Allison Cabana,
María Elena Torre &
Michelle Fine, GC-CUNY
Nancy Lesko, Teacher’s College, Columbia University
Ed Brockenbrough, University of Pennsylvania
Ileana Jiménez, Little Red School
House & Elisabeth Irwin High School
Proud Talk Sponsors:
Center for Human Environments,
Urban Education at the Graduate Center,
Sociology at The Graduate Center,
The Center for the Study of Women and Society,
CUNY School for Professional Studies,
New York Independent Schools LGBT Educators Group
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This event is free and open to the public!