{"product_id":"unscripting-the-present-the-security-panic-of-queer-youth-sexuality-paperback","title":"Unscripting the Present: The Security Panic of Queer Youth Sexuality - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTimothy Gitzen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterrogates contemporary sex panics in the United States, looking especially at popular culture texts to conceptualize queer youth survival strategies.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSex panics saturate contemporary discourse and politics in the United States. While such panics have a long history, they are now infused with rhetoric, logics, and methods of security that turn queer sexuality into an existential crisis. Queer youth bear the brunt of this crisis, with their presumed innocence always in danger of being lost. \u003ci\u003eUnscripting the Present\u003c\/i\u003e interweaves analysis of laws and lawsuits, news media, sociological studies, and popular culture both to understand contemporary sex panics and to highlight how queer youth find ways to survive in the here and now. Developing a novel technique of \"unscripting,\" Timothy Gitzen focuses our attention on those impromptu moments when things go awry in representations of queer youth-moments that disrupt securitization's social \"scripts.\" Foregoing well-worn promises of things getting better, texts such as Netflix's \u003ci\u003eSex Education\u003c\/i\u003e, the film \u003ci\u003eLove, Simon\u003c\/i\u003e, and the multimodal show Skam upend the anxious hyperfocus on what's to come in favor of a hopeful present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTimothy Gitzen \u003c\/b\u003eis an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Wake Forest University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBanal Security: Queer Korea in the Time of Viruses\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 222\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.51 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 02, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45847031218373,"sku":"9798855801651","price":61.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/NP6ivGofkm9798855801651.webp?v=1771409289","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/unscripting-the-present-the-security-panic-of-queer-youth-sexuality-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}