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Social Science Gay Studies

Queer Youth in the Province of the "Severely Normal"

by (author) Gloria Filax

Publisher
UBC Press
Initial publish date
Jan 2007
Category
Gay Studies, Gender Studies, Lesbian Studies, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780774812467
    Publish Date
    Jan 2007
    List Price
    $32.95
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780774812450
    Publish Date
    May 2006
    List Price
    $95.00
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780774841016
    Publish Date
    Nov 2011
    List Price
    $30.95

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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.

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