The New Gay Teenager / / Ritch C Savin-Williams.

Gay, straight, bisexual: how much does sexual orientation matter to a teenager's mental health or sense of identity? In this down-to-earth book, filled with the voices of young people speaking for themselves, Savin-Williams argues that the standard image of gay youth presented by mental health...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2005
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Adolescent Lives ; 3
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Physical Description:1 online resource (286 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Why the New Gay Teenager?
  • 2. Who's Gay?
  • 3. In the Beginning . . .Was Gay Youth
  • 4. Models or Trajectories?
  • 5. Feeling Different
  • 6. Same-Sex Attractions
  • 7. First Sex
  • 8. Identity
  • 9. Resilience and Diversity
  • 10. Refusing and Resisting Sexual Identity Labels
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index