The new gay teenager / Ritch C. Savin-Williams.
Material type:
TextSeries: Adolescent lives ; 3.Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005Description: xi, 272 pages ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0674016734
- 9780674016736
- 305.235 22
- HQ76.25 .S395 2005
Contents:
Summary: Argues that the standard image of gay youth as depressed, isolated, and drug-dependent that was presented by mental health researchers twenty years ago may have been exaggerated and offers a more accurate portrayal of gay youths in the early twenty-first century.
Why the new gay teenager? -- Who's gay? -- In the beginning ... was gay youth -- Models or trajectories? -- Feeling different -- Same-sex attractions -- First sex -- Identity -- Resilience and diversity -- Refusing and resisting sexual identity labels.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 305.235 SAV (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A413766B |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-266) and index.
Why the new gay teenager? -- Who's gay? -- In the beginning ... was gay youth -- Models or trajectories? -- Feeling different -- Same-sex attractions -- First sex -- Identity -- Resilience and diversity -- Refusing and resisting sexual identity labels.
Argues that the standard image of gay youth as depressed, isolated, and drug-dependent that was presented by mental health researchers twenty years ago may have been exaggerated and offers a more accurate portrayal of gay youths in the early twenty-first century.
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