Youth Service Provision, Social Order and the Question of Girls

Abstract

In this article I look at the development of the youth service in Britain as a form of provided leisure and at the historical marginalisation of girls within this. An examination of these issues illuminates both the part played by youth work provision in the social policing of young people and the distinctive mode in which girls are regulated. I also look at the consequences of these phenomena for contemporary youth work, and draw out some of the implications of the different kinds of politics and practice embedded in feminist youth work with girls. However, I shall start off by making some general observations about the study of youth and about the shifting and sometimes contradictory definitions, relations and location of young people.

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