QUEER YOUTH, SUICIDE AND SELF-HARM by Elizabeth McDermott, Katrina Roen ( 9781137003447 )

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Title:

QUEER YOUTH, SUICIDE AND SELF-HARM
TROUBLED SUBJECTS, TROUBLING NORMS

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

1137003448

ISBN 13:

9781137003447

Publisher:

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN

Pub. date:

15 February, 2016

Edition:

1st ed. 2016

Pages:

186

Description:

This book prioritises the perspectives of queer young people, including those who have experience of self-harming 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 in the production of self-harming and suicidal youth.

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.

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VIII, 186 p.

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Imprint:

Palgrave Macmillan

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Non-returnable

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