Growing into resilience : sexual and gender minority youth in Canada / André P. Grace with Kristopher Wells.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grace, André P., 1954- author.

Wells, Kristopher, 1971- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sexual minorities--Canada.

Sexual minorities.

Youth--Canada.

Youth.

Resilience (Personality trait)--Canada.

Resilience (Personality trait).

Gender identity--Canada.

Gender identity.

Canada.

Genre:

Libros electronicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Distribution:

Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2015

Place of Publication:

Toronto [Ontario] ; Buffalo [New York] : University of Toronto Press, [2015]

Summary:

Both a resource for those professionally engaged in work with sexual and gender minorities and a comprehensive text for use in courses on working with vulnerable youth populations, Growing into Resilience is a timely and transdisciplinary book.

Contents:

Part 1: Steeling life in the face of adversity

InterText 1. Mara: Learning to own gay

InterText 2. Vincent: I'm passing

1. Making it better now for sexual and gender minority youth

InterText 3 Sean: I'm a man, yes I am

2. Gender Beautiful: Living in the fullness of one's affirmed gender identity and true gender self

InterText 4. Larissa: My heritage is a big thing

Camp fYrefly: fostering, youth, resilience, energy, fun, leadership, yeah!

InterText 5. Mark: Being the boy I am

InterText 6. Paul: Bringing people out of silence

4. Policies to protect sexual and gender minority youth in schooling and health care

pt. 2. From At Risk to At Promise. The Marc Hall Prom Predicament: Queer Individual Rights v. Institutional Church Rights in Canadian Public Education

Gay and Bisexual Male Youth as Educator Activists and Cultural Workers: The Queer Critical Praxis of Three Canadian High-School Students

The Comprehensive Health of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth

Gay-Straight Alliances and the Quest for Recognition and Accommodation of Sexual and Gender Minority Students in Canadian Schools.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-344) and index.

ISBN:

1-4426-2565-1

1-4426-2564-3

OCLC:

940512956