A unique approach to understanding the changing face of youth transitions, addressing the question of how gender identities are constituted in late modern culture.

Rachel Thomson is Professor of Social Research in the Faculty of Health and Social Care at The Open University. She has written widely in the fields of youth studies, sexuality and qualitative methods. Recent publications include Inventing adulthood: a biographical approach to youth transitions (with Henderson et al; Sage, 2007) and Researching social change: qualitative approaches (with McLeod; Sage, 2009).