◎ contents 1. street smarts 1) boots, gangs and addictions : youth subcultures and the media 2) skateboarders, streets and style 3) street machiners and "showing off" 4) youth gang 2. musical beats 1) musical form and social deviance 2) homies and homebrewz : hip hop in Sydney 3) bubbing acid : Sydney's techno inderground 4) selling the spice girls 3. grrrl power 1) Is diy Doa? 2) the art of "girl power" : femininity, feminism and youth culture in the 1990s 3) Is the future of Australian feminism feral? 4. one or the 'other' 1) taking about the problems of young Nyungars 2) youth and ethnicity : images ahd constructions 3) Lebaness youth and social identity 4) wall of silence : stories of Cabramatta street youth 5) a culture of resistence : adolescents in detention 5. negotiating sexlity 1) coming out or staying in : dilemmas of young lesbians and gay men 2) working against heterosexism : gay school experience 3) hydraulic sexuality and hegemonic masculinity : youth working-class nen and car culture 6. presents and futures 1) imagined trajectories : local culture and social identity 2) generation X? : young people and politics 3) what the !#& have values got to do with anything! : young people, culture and well-being