Ross Haenfler

Straight Edge

Hardcore Punk, Clean Living Youth, and Social Change

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

  In this first in-depth sociological analysis of the movement, Ross Haenfler follows the lives of dozens of straight-edge youths, showing how for these young men and women, and thousands of others worldwide, the adoption of the straight-edge doctrine as a way to better themselves evolved into a broader mission to improve the world in which they live. Although the original definition of straight edge focused only on the rejection of mind-altering substances and promiscuous sex, modern interpretations include a vegetarian (or vegan) diet and an increasing involvement in environmental and political issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• First Edition, First edition
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9780813538525
• ISBN-10: 0813538521
• Artikelnr.: 21063145

Autorenporträt

Ross Haenfler is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Mississippi.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgement
1 Straight Edge 101
2 Straight Edge Core Values
3 Straight Edge as a Social Movement
4 Positivity versus Military: Struggles within the Science
5 Masculinity in Contradiction: The Two Faces of Straight Edge
6 Girls United and Divided: women in Straight Edge
7 Life After Subculture: How Older Straight Edgers Redefine Commitment 
8 Commercialization, the Internet, and the Cultic Milieu
9 Conclusions
A Timeline of Straight Edge Bands
Notes
References
Index