ISBN:
9781137312709
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (151 pages)
Series Statement:
Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.760835
Keywords:
Sociology
;
Sociology
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book contests the idea that lesbian and gay categories are disappearing, and that sexuality is becoming fluid, by showing how young people use them in a world in which heterosexuality is privileged. Exploring identity making, the book shows how old modernist stories of sexual being entwine with narratives of normality.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Narrative identity -- The study: the time of lesbian and gay lives -- Intersections -- The chapters -- 1 Making Sense of Lesbian and Gay Identity -- Symbolic interactionism and the study of homosexuality -- Changing stories of sexual difference -- Conclusion -- 2 Embodying Lesbian and Gay Identity -- Feeling desire -- In my head and every part of me -- Conclusion -- 3 Explaining Homosexuality -- Development narratives and straight thinking -- The value of explanation -- Conclusion -- 4 Getting Over It -- Lesbian and gay youth and the changing experience of homophobia -- Valuing and questioning difference -- Judged youth -- Conclusion -- 5 Doing Ordinariness -- The comfort of ordinariness -- Living a normal life -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Shaping the embodied self through narrative -- Paradoxes of lesbian and gay normalization -- Continuity and change in lesbian and gay identity -- References -- Index.
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