Youth Culture

List of Contributors viiAcknowledgments x1 Introduction: Generation X, Youth Culture, and Identity 1
Jonathon S. Epstein2 Teenage Sexuality, Body Politics, and the Pedagogy of Display 24
Henry A. Giroux3 Teens and Schools: Who is Falling through the Cracks and Why 56
Sarah Nixon-Ponder4 Beavis and Butt-Head: No Future for Postmodern Youth 74
Steven Best and Douglas Kellner5 The Industrial Identity Crisis: the Failure of a Newly Forming subculture to Identity Itself 100
David A. Locher6 Identity and Status Stratification in Deadhead Subculture 118
Robert Sardiello7 "Don't Need you:" Rethinking Identity Politics and Separatism from a Grrrl Perspective 148
Mary Celeste Kearney8 "Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle:" Pan-capitalism and Alternative Rock 189
Javier Santiago-Lucerna9 "This Ain't No Disco" ... or is it? Youth culture and the Rave Phenomenon 195
Lori Tomlinson10 Growing up Punk: Meaning and Commitment Careers on a Contemporary Youth Subculture 212
Linda Andes11 "When It All Changed:" Cyberpunk and the Baby Boom's Rejection of Religious Institutions 232
Samuel R. Smith12 Social Justice and Sexism for Adolescents: a Content Analysis of Lyrical Themes and Gender Presentations in Canadian Heavy Metal Music, 1985-1991 263
Bruce K. Friesen and Warren Helfrich13 Incubus: Male Songwriters' Portrayal of Women's Sexuality in Pop Metal Music 286
Lisa J. Sloat14 Explorations in Youth Culture. Amateur Stripping: What We Know and What We Don't 302
Thomas C. Calhoun, Julie Ann Harms Cannon and Rhonda FisherIndex 327

Jonathon S. Epstein is an internationally recognized expert on youth culture and rock music. He is a senior consultant for the Rock a n Roll Hall of Fame and a Lecturer at Kent State University. He is the author of Adolescents and Their Music: If Ita s Too Loud Youa re Too Old (1994).