Queer Generations

Daniel Marshall is Associate Professor and Enterprise Fellow in Sexualities and Genders at the University of South Australia, Australia. Benjamin Hegarty is a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia.Rob Cover is Professor of Digital Communication at RMIT University, Australia. Christy Newman is Professor at the Centre for Social Research in Health, where she conducts social research on health, gender and sexuality. Mary Lou Rasmussen is Professor and Head of the School of Sociology at The Australian National University, Australia.Peter Aggleton has a background in the social sciences as applied to well-being, education and health. He is the editor of several book series and journals, and holds professorial positions at a number of universities including The Australian National University in Canberra, UNSW Sydney, and UCL in London.

In this absorbing and uniquely intergenerational research project, Queer Generations, Marshall, Hegarty, Cover, Newman, Rasmussen, and Aggleton do superb work contextualizing the development of youth sexual citizenship in across temporally shifting understandings of what it means to live against the normative grain of sexuality and gender. As strong in its methodology and theory as it is in its nuanced reporting on key lens that continue to provide resources for and shape the experiences of LGBTQ+ people, this is book is an exceptional resource for youth studies, education, gender studies, history, and more.

• Chapter One: Introduction: Assembling an account of LGBTQ youth sexual citizenship over timeChapter Two: Inventing kinshipChapter Three: Media representation, digital life and belongingChapter Four: Feeling educationChapter Five: Belonging, affinity and inclusivity labour in health careChapter Six: Reconfiguring the “Public” and the “Private” in Constructions of Sexual Citizenship at WorkChapter Seven: Locating sex in sexual citizenshipChapter Eight: LGBTQ youth sexual citizenship and its discontents: what proves difficult to seeChapter Nine: Conclusion: LGBTQ youth sexual citizenship in a time of same-sex marriage: prospects for decolonising futures