Super Girls, Gangstas, Freeters, and Xenomaniacs: Gender and Modernity in Global Youth Culture

Cover Page\nCopyright Page\nTable of Contents\nContributors\nIntroduction: Cross-Cultural Visions of Youth and Modernity\nPART ONE: Gender and Generation\n1. Mobile Phones and the“Commercialization” of Relationships: Expressions of Masculinity in Southern Mozambique\n2. Claiming Youth, the Modern Feminine Self, and Womanhood in Northern Namibia\n3. Still a Child?: Liminality and the Construction of Youthful Masculinities in Japan\nPART TWO: Mass-Mediated Modernities\n4. Gendered Modernities among Rural Indigenous Fijian Children\n5. Androgynous Beauty, Virtual Sisterhood: Stardom, Fandom, and Chinese Talent Shows under Globalization\n6. Teenage Girls and Global Television: Performing the “New” Hindi Film Song\n7. Xenomania: Globalized and Gendered Discourses of the Nation in Cyprus\n8. Children as Barometers of Social Decay: Perceptions of Child Sex Tourism in Goa, India\nPART FOUR: Agency and Refining Youth Identities\n9. Negotiating Agency: Local Youth Activism in Aotearoa–New Zealand\n10. Imagining Papua New Guinean Cultural Modernities in Urban Australia: Youth, Cultural Schools, and Informal Education\n11. Islanders among a Sea of Gangs: Diasporic Masculinities and Gang Culture among Tongan American Youth\nReferences\nIndex