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	Acknowledgements	ix
	Introduction: A New Approach to Youth Research	1
Chapter 1	Beyond Subcultures	13
	Subculture Theory: The Dominant Paradigm	15
	Criticizing the CCCS Youth Orthodoxy	22
	A Marxist Understanding of Power and Ideology	26
	Foucault, Truth, and Power	30
	Reassessing Hegemony	35
	Detotalizing Social History: Some Further Implications	39
	Adjusting the Focus on Subcultures	45
	From "Youth Homelessness" to "Streetkids"	49
	Conclusion	53
Chapter 2	Youth, Sex, and Government	55
	Governmentality	59
	Sexuality and the Emergence of Childhood	73
	Youth, Sex, and Governmentality	86
	Youth, Sex, and the Limits of Government	95
	Conclusion	99
Chapter 3	Governing the "At-Risk" Youth	101
	The Rhetoric of Risk and the Problem of Youth	105
	Risk and Government	113
	The Dissolution of the Subject	116
	Increasing the Scope of Government	118
	From Practitioner to Administrator	120
	An Alternative Interpretation of the Finn Report	122
	Conclusion	130
Chapter 4	Sexing the Self	133
	The Person, the Individual, and the Self	135
	Youth and Self-government	140
	Manuals in Self-management	146
	Magazines, Sex, and Identity Management	149
	Modes of Persuasion	152
	Practices of the Self	160
	Youth, Sex, and Maturity	166
	Conclusion	168
Chapter 5	Governing the Body, Governing the Self	171
	Fasting and the Self	172
	Cultivating a Self: The Dietetics of Antiquity	174
	Historicizing Fasting	179
	Women, Piety, and Fasting	180
	Setting Limits to Anorexia Nervosa	184
	Government and the Invention of Anorexia Nervosa	186
	Government, Health, and Diet	188
	Medicine, Nosology, Hysteria	191
	Shaping Anorexia Nervosa as a Disease Entity	194
	Conclusion	199
	Conclusion: Youth, Government, and Culture	201
	Bibliography	219
	Index	241