Australian youth subcultures: On the margins and in the mainstream 

Table of contents

Introduction
Rob White

Section one: Street smarts

Boots, gangs and addictions: Youth subcultures and the media
Howard Sercombe

Skateboarders, streets and style
David Snow

Street machiners and 'showing off'
Linda Forrester

Youth gangs
Rob White

Section two: Musical beats

Musical form and social deviance
Barbara Hunter

Homies and homebrewz: Hip hop in Sydney
Miguel d'Souza and Kurt Iveson

Bubbling acid: Sydney's techno underground
Sebastian Chan

Selling the Spice Girls
Sarah Louise Baker

Section three: Grrrl power

Is DIY DOA? Zines and the revolution, grrrl style
Anita Harris

The art of 'girl power': Femininity, feminism and youth culture in the 1990s
Susan Hopkins

Is the future of Australian feminism feral?
Susie O'Brien

Section four: One or the ‘other’

Talking about the problems of young Nyungars
Dave Palmer

Youth and ethnicity: Images and constructions
Rogelia Pe-Pua

Media stereotyping
Sheila Pankake Allison

Lebanese youth and social identity
Greg Noble, Scott Poynting & Paul Tabar

Wall of Silence: Stories of Cabramatta street youth
Lisa Maher, Tram Nguyen & Tu Thanh Le

A culture of resistance: Adolescents in detention
Emma Ogilvie & Mark Lynch

Section five: Negotiating sexuality

Coming out or staying in: Dilemmas of young lesbians and gay men
Mic Emslie

Working against heterosexism: Gay school experiences
Michael Crowhurst

Hydraulic sexuality and hegemonic masculinity: Young working-class men and car culture
Linley Walker

Section six: Presents and futures

Imagined trajectories: Local culture and social identity
Ani Wierenga

Generation X? Young people and politics
Sean Healy

What the !#& * have values got to do with anything! Young people, culture and well-being
Richard Eckersley