Chronic Youth : Disability, Sexuality, and U.S. Media Cultures of Rehabilitation

Chronic Youth Disability, Sexuality, and U.S. Media Cultures of Rehabilitation

The teenager has often appeared in culture as an anxious figure,the repository for American dreams and worst nightmares, at once on the brinkof success and imminent failure. Spotlighting the “troubled teen” as a site ofpop cultural, medical, and governmental intervention, Chronic Youthtraces the tee...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Elman, Julie Passanante, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press [2014]
Colección:NYU series in social and cultural analysis.
Materias:
Youth > United States > Conduct of life.
At-risk youth > United States.
Teenagers > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.
LAW / Media & the Law.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009817329606719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. From rebel to patient
  • 1. Medicine is magical and magical is art: liberation and overcoming in the boy in the plastic bubble
  • 2. After school special education: sex, tolerance, and rehabilitative television
  • 3. Cryin’ and dyin’ in the age of aliteracy romancing teen sick-lit
  • 4. Crazy by design: Neuroparenting and crisis in the decade of the brain
  • Conclusion. Susceptible citizens in the age of wiihabilitation
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the author

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