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The new gay teenager / Ritch C. Savin-Williams.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Savin-Williams, Ritch C.
- Series:
- Adolescent lives ; 3.
- Adolescent lives ; 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay teenagers--Social conditions.
- Gay teenagers.
- Gay teenagers--Psychology.
- Gay teenagers--Mental health.
- LGBTQ+ youth.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 272 p. : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 researchers--as depressed, isolated, drug-dependent, even suicidal--may have been exaggerated even twenty years ago, and is far from accurate today.
- 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
- Notes:
- Originally published: 2005.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674043138
- 0674043138
- OCLC:
- 1049612136
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