Book of the Week, June 22

B▫O▫W▫ book of the week, June 22 2009

Contemporary Youth Culture: An International Encyclopedia

Ref HQ 796.C8154 2006

ed. Shirley Steinberg, Priya Parmar, Birgit Richard

2006

One media and two education professors edit this two-volume encyclopedia. Its entries handle topics in the fields of politics, education, sexuality, media and identities as they apply to youth. Privileging inclusiveness, the essays written for these volumes by professors, teachers, and other professionals, range as far as critical geography, world citizenship, Otaku, jammer girls, crip queers, and sluthood.