Queer Youth in the Province of the "Severely Normal"

Alberta in the 1990s was marked by provincial government contestation of the legal rights of sexual minority citizens. This work explores how youth identities were and are constructed through competing discourses about youth, sexuality, and gender, and how queer youth in the province of Alberta negotiated the contradictions of these discourses.

About the author

Gloria Filax is a sociologist by training, and a program associate in the Integrated Program at Athabasca University. She lives on Gabriola Island.

Summary

Explores how youth identities have been constructed through dominant and often competing discourses about youth, sexuality, and gender, and how queer youth in Alberta negotiated the contradictions of these discourses.

Product details

• Authors: Gloria Filax
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.05.2006
• EAN: 9780774812450
• ISBN: 978-0-7748-1245-0
• No. of pages: 200
• Weight: 400 g
• Illustrations: 11 b&w photos
• Series: Sexuality Studies; Sexuality Studies Series; Sexuality Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research