Queer Youth in the Province of the "Severely Normal"
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2007
- Category
- Gay Studies, Gender Studies, Lesbian Studies, General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780774812467
- Publish Date
- Jan 2007
- List Price
- $32.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774812450
- Publish Date
- May 2006
- List Price
- $95.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774841016
- Publish Date
- Nov 2011
- List Price
- $30.95
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Description
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.
About the author
Gloria Filax teaches and coordinates the Equality/Social Justice stream in the MAIS program at Athabasca University. Her research interests include gender/sexuality studies, processes of racialization, disability studies, and other forms of normalization.
