Teenage Suicide Notes : : An Ethnography of Self-Harm / / Terry Williams.

"Picturing myself dying in a way I choose myself seems so comforting, healing and heroic. I'd look at my wrists, watch the blood seeping, and be a spectator in my last act of self-determination. By having lost all my self-respect it seems like the last pride I own, determining the time I d...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:The Cosmopolitan Life
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 10 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Profiled Teens
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • 1. Little Girl Lost: Kyra
  • 2. The Fighter: Enoch
  • 3. Overload: Candy
  • 4. The Last Stand: David
  • 5. Homo: Tucker
  • 6. Escaping Death: Gita
  • 7. Shock Jock: Boots
  • 8. Cutter: Jill
  • 9. On the Road: Cody
  • 10. Born-Again Virgin: Gabriella
  • Afterword
  • Epilogue
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix A: Ipe and Brownson
  • Appendix B: Enoch and His Brother
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index