Queer Youth, Suicide and Self-Harm: Troubled Subjects, Troubling Norms

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Synopsis
Offering a new way of understanding the high self-harm and suicide rates among sexual and gender minority youth, this book prioritises the perspectives and experiences of queer young people, including those who have experience of self-harming and/or feeling suicidal. Presenting analysis based on research carried out with young people both online and face-to-face, the authors offer a critical perspective on the role of norms, namely developmental norms, gender and sexuality norms, and neoliberal norms, in the production of self-harming and suicidal youth. Queer Youth, Suicide and Self-Harm is unique in the way it works at the intersection of class and sexuality, and in its specific focus on transgender youth and the concept of embodied distress. It also examines the implications of this research for self-harm reduction and suicide prevention.
Copyright:
2016

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781137003461
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Elizabeth McDermott and Katrina Roen
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender, Psychology, Social Studies, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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