Understanding Narrative Identity Through Lesbian and Gay Youth [electronic resource] /
Coleman-Fountain, Edmund.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
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 differenceJudged 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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Sociology.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Youth—Social life and customs.
Social groups.
Family.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Gender Studies.
Cultural and Media Studies, general.
Youth Culture.
Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging.
Sociology, general.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.