Gendered Paths to Teenage Political Participation: Parental Power, Civic Mobility, and Youth Activism  

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Gordon, Hava Rachel

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Gender and society; vol. 22 no. 01 (Feb. 2008), page 31-55.
Topik: adolescence; youth activism; gender; mobility; parent–child relationships
Fulltext: 31.pdf (130.63KB)

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This article examines how gender shapes the development, involvement, and visibility of teenagers as political actors within their communities. Based on ethnographic research with two high school student movement organizations on the West Coast, the author argues that gender impacts the potential for young people’s political consciousness to translate into public, social movement participation. Specifically, the gendered ways in which youth conceptualize and negotiate parental power influences whether or not, and in what ways, youth can emerge as visible agents of social change in their communities. For girl activists, there is more of a marked discontinuity between their political ideals and their political action because of their conflicts with parental power than for boys. This article considers the consequences of teens’ relationships to parental power on their sociopolitical development, as well as the counter-effects posed by the feminist interventions of adult allies within youth movements.

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