Queer Youth, Suicide and Self-Harm Troubled Subjects, Troubling Norm
Offering a new way of understanding the high self-harm and suicide rates among sexual and gender minority youth, this book prioritises the perspectives and experiences of queer young people, including those who have experience of self-harming and/or feeli
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Queer Youth, Suicide and Self-Harm
Queer Youth, Suicide and Self-Harm Troubled Subjects, Troubling Norms Elizabeth McDermott Lancaster University, UK
Katrina Roen University of Oslo, Norway
QUEER YOUTH , SUICIDE AND SELF - HARM : TROUBLED SUBJECTS, TROUBLING NORMS
Copyright © Elizabeth McDermott and Katrina Roen 2016 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2016 978-1-137-00344-7 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission. In accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published 2016 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of Nature America, Inc., One New York Plaza, Suite 4500, New York, NY 10004-1562. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. PDF ISBN: 978-1-349-66813-7 E-PDF ISBN: 978-1-137-00345-4 DOI: 10.1057/9781137003454 Distribution in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world is by Palgrave Macmillan®, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. A catalogue record for the book is available from the British Library.
Contents
Acknowledgements
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About the Authors
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1 Reframing Queer Youth Suicide and Self-Harm Moving beyond the ‘at-risk’ subject Moving beyond individual psychopathology Moving beyond positivism Subjugated knowledges: Moving beyond a suicide and self-harm ‘truth’ Troubling norms: Reframing queer youth suicide and self-harm Empirical studies Chapter overview
13 15 17
2 Troubled Subject-Making Making subjects ‘Is this normal?’ Adolescence Heteronormativity and recognition Troubling emotion Hate, fear, disgust and shame Embodied subjects, embodied distress Conclusion
20 22 25 25 29 32 33 38 40
3 Social Class Inequality, Heteronormativity and Shame Class shame Embodied shame ‘Failed’ subjecthood Conclusion
42 46 49 52 60
4 Troubling Gender Norms: Gender Non-Conforming Youth Gender non-conforming youth seeking clinical intervention Pubertal change and embodied distress Youth subjecthood v
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Discourse and sense-making Conclusion
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