Knowledge, Power and Young Sexualities

The book contributes to critical reflexive work on global practices of knowledge and its complex enmeshment with power in the terrain of sexual and gender justice work aimed at young people.

Tamara Shefer is Professor in Women's and Gender Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Jeff Hearn is Professor Emeritus, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland; Professor of Sociology, University of Huddersfield, UK; and Senior Professor, Human Geography, Örebro University, Sweden.

1. 'Troubling' approaches to young sexualities 2. Young people, gender and sexualities 3. Gender binarisms and heteronormativity 4. Victims and perpetrators 5. Idealized and demonized young people 6. Transnational and local (mis)travels 7. Towards alternative engagements with young people