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Growing into resilience : sexual and gender minority youth in Canada / André P. Grace with Kristopher Wells.
Van Pelt Library HQ73.3 C2 G73 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grace, André P., 1954- author.
- Wells, Kristopher, 1971- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sexual minorities--Canada.
- Sexual minorities.
- Gender identity--Canada.
- Gender identity.
- Youth--Canada.
- Youth.
- Resilience (Personality trait).
- Canada.
- Resilience (Personality trait)--Canada.
- LGBTQ+ people.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 357 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Sexual and gender minority youth in Canada
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
- Contents:
- Part 1 Steeling Life in the Face of Adversity
- InterText 1 Mara: Learning to Own Gay 7
- InterText 2 Vincent: I'm Passing 12
- 1 Making It Better Now for Sexual and Gender Minority Youth 16
- InterText 3 Sean: I'm a Man, Yes I Am 36
- 2 Gender Beautiful: Living in the Fullness of One's Affirmed Gender Identity and True Gender Self 45
- InterText 4 Larissa: My Heritage Is a Big Thing 88
- 3 Camp fYrefly: fostering, Youth, resilience, energy, fun, leadership, yeah! 91
- InterText 5 Mark: Being the Boy I Am 107
- InterText 6 Paul: Bringing People Out of Silence 112
- 4 Policies to Protect Sexual and Gender Minority Youth in Schooling and Health Care 117
- Part 2 From At Risk to At Promise
- InterText 7 John: Learning to Own Gay 139
- 5 The Marc Hall Prom Predicament: Queer Individual Rights v. Institutional Church Rights in Canadian Public Education 144
- InterText 8 Sam: It's Like Piranhas, Man 173
- 6 Gay and Bisexual Male Youth as Educator-Activists and Cultural Workers: The Queer Critical Praxis of Three Canadian High School Students 178
- InterText 9 Jon: Born to Be, Deserving to Be Happy in My Own Skin 204
- 7 The Comprehensive Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth 208
- InterText 10 David: Stealth, but Living Trans Full-time 251
- 8 Gay-Straight Alliances and the Quest for Recognition and Accommodation in Canadian Schools 257.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-344) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442637573
- 1442637579
- 9781442629042
- 1442629045
- OCLC:
- 907661874
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