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Record Nr.

UNINA9910253315603321

Autore

McDermott E

Titolo

Queer Youth, Suicide and Self-Harm : Troubled Subjects, Troubling Norms / / by E. McDermott, K. Roen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-00345-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 186 p.)

Disciplina

305.2

Soggetti

Childhood

Adolescence

Sociology

Families

Families—Social aspects

Emotions

Psychology, Pathological

Childhood, Adolescence and Society

Gender Studies

Sociology, general

Family

Emotion

Psychopathology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.