{"product_id":"chronic-youth-disability-sexuality-and-u-s-media-cultures-of-rehabilitation-paperback","title":"Chronic Youth: Disability, Sexuality, and U.S. Media Cultures of Rehabilitation - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJulie Passanante Elman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe teenager has often appeared in culture as an anxious figure, \u003cbr\u003ethe repository for American dreams and worst nightmares, at once on the brink\u003cbr\u003eof success and imminent failure. Spotlighting the \"troubled teen\" as a site of\u003cbr\u003epop cultural, medical, and governmental intervention, Chronic Youth\u003cbr\u003etraces the teenager as a figure through which broad threats to the normative\u003cbr\u003eorder have been negotiated and contained. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExamining television, popular novels, science journalism, new\u003cbr\u003emedia, and public policy, Julie Passanante Elman shows how the teenager became\u003cbr\u003ea cultural touchstone for shifting notions of able-bodiedness, \u003cbr\u003eheteronormativity, and neoliberalism in the late twentieth century. By the late\u003cbr\u003e1970s, media industries as well as policymakers began developing new problem-driven\u003cbr\u003e'edutainment' prominently featuring narratives of disability--from the\u003cbr\u003eimmunocompromised The Boy in the Plastic Bubble to ABC's After School\u003cbr\u003eSpecials and teen sick-lit. Although this conjoining of disability\u003cbr\u003eand adolescence began as a storytelling convention, disability became much more\u003cbr\u003ethan a metaphor as the process of medicalizing adolescence intensified by the\u003cbr\u003e1990s, with parenting books containing neuro-scientific warnings about the\u003cbr\u003eincomplete and volatile \"teen brain.\" Undertaking a cultural history of youth\u003cbr\u003ethat combines disability, queer, feminist, and comparative media studies, Elman\u003cbr\u003eoffers a provocative new account of how American cultural producers, \u003cbr\u003epolicymakers, and medical professionals have mobilized discourses of disability\u003cbr\u003eto cast adolescence as a treatable \"condition.\" By tracing the teen's uneven\u003cbr\u003epassage from postwar rebel to 21st century patient, Chronic Youth shows\u003cbr\u003ehow teenagers became a lynchpin for a culture of perpetual rehabilitation and\u003cbr\u003eneoliberal governmentality.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 8.95 x 6.06 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 20, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42117881397383,"sku":"9781479818228","price":61.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/9218fe13400bae8b68db27bf2466f7d1.webp?v=1732528488","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/chronic-youth-disability-sexuality-and-u-s-media-cultures-of-rehabilitation-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}