1. The breadth and depth of youth transitions
2. A method-in-practice: constructing longitudinal case histories
3. Gender and social change
4. Going up! Discipline and opportunism
5. Going down? Caught between stasis and mobility
6. Coming out: from the closet to stepping stones
7. Acting out rebellion with a cause
8. Interruption: from explanation to understanding
9. Conversation: reading between the lines
10. Youth, gender and change
Appendix. The case history data sets.