New Gay Teenager

Name: New Gay Teenager
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ISBN: 9780674022560

ISBN-10: 0674022564

ISBN-13: 9780674022560

Edition: 2005

Authors: Ritch C. Savin-Williams

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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, Ritch 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. The New Gay Teenager gives us a refreshing and frequently controversial introduction to confident, competent, upbeat teenagers with same-sex desires, who worry more about the chemistry test or their curfew than they do about their sexuality. What…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Robert Gauldin, professor of music theory at the Eastman School of Music, is the author of A Practical Approach to Sixteenth-Century Counterpoint and A Practical Approach to Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint.nbsp; He has contributed to many scholarly journals, including Music Theory Spectrum and the Journal of Music Theory Pedagogy, and served as president of the Society for Music Theory from 1992-1993.



Preface



Why the New Gay Teenager?



Who's Gay?



In the Beginning... Was Gay Youth



Models or Trajectories?



Feeling Different



Same-Sex Attractions



First Sex



Identity



Resilience and Diversity



Refusing and Resisting Sexual Identity Labels


Notes


References


Index