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| Sexual citizenship is a powerful concept associated with debates about recognition and exclusion, agency, respect and accountability. For young people in general, and for gender and sexually-diverse youth in particular, debates over sexual citizenship are entangled with broader imaginings of social transition: from `child' to `adult', and from `immature subject' to one `who can consent'. Recognising that young people are neither entirely vulnerable, nor self-reliant, this collection engages with sexual and gender diverse young people's struggles for recognition, inclusion and respect across a wide range of international contexts. Focusing on the different domains in which debates about youth, sexuality and citizenship are enacted and contested, Young People and Sexual Citizenship explores young people's experiences in the family, at school and in college, in employment, in the social media and through engagement with health services. Bookended by reflections from Jeffrey Weeks and Susan Talburt, empirically-grounded and interdisciplinary chapters engage with issues of identity and inclusion, precarity and futurity. This innovative book will be of interest to students and scholars of gender and sexuality, health and sex education, and youth studies, from a range of disciplinary and professional backgrounds including sociology, cultural studies, education, nursing, social work and youth work. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||