Queer Youth in the Province of the Severely Normal

by Gloria Filax

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077481246X
• ISBN13: 9780774812467
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"