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Understanding Narrative Identity Through Lesbian and Gay Youth / Edmund Coleman-Fountain
- Title
- Understanding Narrative Identity Through Lesbian and Gay Youth / Edmund Coleman-Fountain
- Author
- Coleman-Fountain, Edmund.
- Publication
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2014.
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| Text | Request in advance | HQ76.27.Y68 C65 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- ix, 140 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- This book seeks to contest the emerging thesis that non-heterosexual young people are increasingly living their lives beyond 'traditional' sexual categories. The main contention of post-gay theorists is that sexuality is becoming unfettered from the constraints of categorization, allowing young people to establish new ways of being sexual. In contrast, this book aims to show that lesbian and gay categories are alive and well, and that young people continue to engage with them and the distinct sense of difference they bring in a world in which heterosexuality is still largely presumed and privileged. Exploring the making of identity through the construction of desire, the role of science in explaining homosexuality, and engagement in narratives and practices of ordinariness, the book sets a new agenda for thinking about lesbian and gay identities, in which old 'modernist' stories of sexual being entwine with new narratives of sameness and ordinariness.
- Series Statement
- Genders and sexualities in the social sciences
- Uniform Title
- Genders and sexualities in the social sciences.
- Subject
- Gay youth > Psychology
- Lesbians > Identity
- Gays > Identity
- Lesbian youth > Psychology
- Identity (Psychology)
- Homosexuality
- Age groups: adolescents > Relating to Gay & Lesbian
- Age groups: adolescents
- Gay & Lesbian studies > Relating to Gay & Lesbian
- Gay & Lesbian studies
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
- Society
- Sociology: family & relationships > Relating to Gay & Lesbian
- Sociology: family & relationships
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Making sense of lesbian and gay identity -- Embodying lesbian and gay identity -- Explaining homosexuality -- Getting over it -- Doing ordinariness.
- ISBN
- 9780230361744
- 0230361749
- OCLC
- 870285735
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library