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1 online resource (xi, 288 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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data file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-281) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Background to the research: 'The future is female' (is it?) -- Methods -- Questionnaire -- Writing the future: imagined life stories -- Outline of the book -- 1. Essaying difference: Comparing essays across the sub-samples -- Introduction: 'Choice' or 'risk' biography? -- Young women and their mothers: From caring for family to caring professions -- Young men's and women's life stories compared -- Young men: Cars and sports -- Sex and love -- Gendered career aspirations -- Homosexual imaginary -- Disadvantaged stories: No bridges from now to the future -- Aboriginal youth: Family and politics -- Young migrants' dreams -- 2. Learning from their parents: Inter-generational change and continuity -- Narratives of becoming: Women change their lives (and minds) -- Women's lives transformed by access to paid work -- Psychic transformation -- Men's disadvantage or opportunity? -- Fathers grope for stories of moving masculinities -- Sons deflect feminism in parodic masculinity -- Girly girls and blokes: Young people's consciousness of gender performance choices -- Feminism: Too far, too soon, too same -- Gender inequality: All about male disadvantage -- 3. Emotional literacy and domestic relations -- Emotional literacy: Crafting a choice biography in the company of others -- 'I am': Independent and interdependent? -- Psychological capital -- A meeting of minds? His and her imagined relationships -- 'Settling down': Breadwinning and childraising -- The 'neo-traditional' family: A compromise between his and her relationships -- Equality at the limits: Sharing the caring -- Equality and egalitarianism in housework and childcare -- Emotional literacy at the limits: Abortion decisions -- Changing institutions as well as women's desires -- 4. Global visions and cramped horizons: Stories of class -- Hidden injuries of class -- Consuming class -- The 'zombie' category of class -- Addressing class differences: Abject social services recipients and the welfare state -- Rejecting the social security subject position -- Poor are always with us -- 'Education generation': Equality of opportunity? -- Comparing educational pathways in the life stories -- Young mothers becoming 'can-do' girls? -- 5. 'Intimate' citizenship? -- Playing at politics -- Celanthropy: Money buys love -- Planet earth needs our love and protection -- Beyond 'yeah, whatever': The potential for individualised citizenship -- Gender relations: 'my feminism' -- Refugees: Good neighbours -- Reconciliation: Us and them and its quotidian expression -- Lacking sociological literacy in an age of individualism -- Conclusion: Equality in the rhetoric, difference in reality -- Appendixes -- Questionnaires -- Sample -- Survey statistics. |
| Summary |
"Explores our contemporary complex equality narrative through the desires and dreams of 1000 young Australians and 230 of their parents from diverse backgrounds across Australia. This 'extraordinary' data set affords analysis of the impact of gender, socio-economic disadvantage, ethnicity, Aboriginality and sexuality on young people's 'imagined life stories', or essays written about their future. An intergenerational comparison assesses how different young people really are from older generations."--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
JSTOR Books at JSTOR Open Access |
| Subject |
Youth -- Australia -- Attitudes.
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Youth -- Sexual behavior -- Australia.
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Youth -- Sexual behavior. |
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Youth. |
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Australia. |
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Young adults -- Australia -- Attitudes.
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Young adults. |
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Young adults -- Sexual behavior -- Australia.
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Young adults -- Sexual behavior. |
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Young adults -- Australia -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Young adults -- Australia -- Interviews.
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Interviews. |
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Teenagers -- Australia -- Conduct of life.
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Teenagers. |
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Conduct of life. |
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Teenagers -- Australia -- Interviews.
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Australia -- Social life and customs -- 21st century.
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Manners and customs. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Interviews.
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Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Youth. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Bulbeck, Chilla, 1951- Imagining the future. Adelaide, S. Aust. : University of Adelaide Press, 2012 9781922064349 (OCoLC)816340541 |
| ISBN |
9781922064356 (electronic book) |
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1922064351 (electronic book) |
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9781922064349 (paperback) |
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1922064343 (paperback) |
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