Queer Youth in the Province of the "Severely Normal"
9780774812467
9780774812450
Distributed for University of British Columbia Press
Queer Youth in the Province of the "Severely Normal"
Gloria Filax explores how youth identities have been constructed through dominant and often competing discourses about youth, sexuality, and gender, and how queer youth in the province of Alberta negotiated the contradictions of these discourses. She juxtaposes the voices of queer young people in Alberta with discourses that claim expert knowledge about young people’s lives. She also explores what queer youth have to say about their lives in relation to renditions of homosexuality from the Alberta Report, a weekly magazine published in the 1990s that, despite its fiscal marginality, had significant impact on social values in Alberta.
![University of British Columbia Press image](/dam/ucp/books/publishers/20200326-UBC-Logo-200.jpg)
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Gendering: Troubled Theories, Troubling Identities
2 Production and Consumption of Youth Identity
3 Social/Legal Production of Sexual Minorities in Canada
4 Queer Identities and Strange Representations in the Province of the Severely Normal
Notes
References
Index
Be the first to know
Get the latest updates on new releases, special offers, and media highlights when you subscribe to our email lists!