Understanding Narrative Identity Through Lesbian and Gay Youth

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-12

3. Making Sense of Lesbian and Gay Identity

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   Pages 13-29

4. Embodying Lesbian and Gay Identity

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5. Explaining Homosexuality

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6. Getting Over It

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7. Doing Ordinariness

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8. Conclusion

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9. Back Matter

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This book contests the idea that lesbian and gay categories are disappearing, and that sexuality is becoming fluid, by showing how young people use them in a world in which heterosexuality is privileged. Exploring identity making, the book shows how old modernist stories of sexual being entwine with narratives of normality.

• body
• corpus
• eros
• fluid
• idea
• identity
• sexuality
• understanding
• Wine
• youth

• Social Policy Research Unit, University of York, UK

  Edmund Coleman-Fountain

Edmund Coleman-Fountain is Research Fellow at the University of York, UK. His research interests include youth identities and difference, notably how processes of marginalization pattern the conditions in which young people make their identities. His current research focuses on disability, identity and the life-course.

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