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Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives?

Author : Rob Cover

Binding Hardcover

EAN 9781409444473

ISBN 1409444473

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Pages 172

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Publisher Ashgate Pub Co

Studio Ashgate Pub Co

Category Suicide

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Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity: Unliveable Lives?

Despite increasing tolerance, legal protections against homophobia, and anti-discrimination policies throughout much of the western world, suicide attempts by queer youth remain relatively high. For over twenty years, research into queer youth suicide has debated reasons and risks, although it has also often reiterated assumptions about sexual identity and youth vulnerability. Understanding the cultural context in which suicide becomes a necessary escape from living an unliveable life is the key to queer youth suicide prevention. This book uses cultural theory to outline some of the ways in which queer youth suicide is perceived in popular culture, media and research. It highlights how the ways in which we think about queer youth suicide have changed over time and some of the benefits and limitations of current thinking on the topic. Focusing on identity, "Queer Youth Suicide, Culture and Identity" also investigates why queer young men continue to attempt suicide. Drawing on approaches from queer theory, cultural studies and sociology, it explores how sexual identity formation, sexual shame and discrepancies in community belonging and exclusions are implicated in the reasons why some queer youth are resilient while others are vulnerable and at risk of suicide. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, media studies, queer theory and social theory with interests in youth, gender and sexuality, and suicidology.

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Category: Mental Health Suicide Awareness

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Date : 24 May 2019

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