Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Note to readers x
6. Introduction: On youth cultural studies 1
7. One. Fresh Contacts: Global Culture and the Concept of Generation 31
8. Two. Children of the Revolution: Fiction Take to the Streets 53
9. Three. Disposable Youth/Disposable Futures: The Crisis of Politics and the Public Life 71
10. Four. 'Splendid Fun' in "Elsewhere': Textual Treats for Contemporary Readers in Susan Coolidge's What Katy Did and Other 'Classic' North American Stories for Girls 88
11. Five. Ideologies of Youth and the Bildungsromane of S. E. Hinton 109
12. Six. 'Something you Can't Unbear': Masculinity, Youth and History in Larry Watson's Montana 1948 131
13. Seven. 'Teensomething': American Youth Programming in the 1990s 155
14. Eight. The Body's in the Trunk: (Re-) Presenting Generation X 182
15. Nine. 'Be Childish, Be Irresponsible, Be Disrespectful, Be Everything this Society Hate's: Punk, Youth and Protest 209
16. Ten. Wanting to be Lisa: Generational Rifts, Girl Power and the Globalization of Surf Culture 237
17. Index 266