Originally published in 1998. This book offers a balanced overview of the issues
surrounding boys and education. It looks beyond the often hysterical debate in the popular …

Despite increasing tolerance, legal protections against homophobia, and anti-discrimination
policies throughout much of the western world, suicide attempts by queer youth remain …

Drawing on diverse theoretical and textual sources, The Gender of Suicide presents a
critical study of the ways in which contemporary society understands suicide, exploring …

This report is about young people who are attracted to their own sex. The need for accurate
baseline figures about young people of non-heterosexual orientation has developed as part …

Objectives: To compare the mental health status of early adult and mid‐life Australian
women according to sexual orientation. Methods and sample: Cross‐sectional analyses of …

Australia has one of the highest rates of youth suicide in the western world, especially
among rural men. This paper discusses the social construction of this issue in Australia and …

It appears that being young and queer seems to be all about woundedness: it means
experiencing suffering, including the risk of suicide, increased drug use, homelessness and …

This paper presents an overview of the risks of self-harm and suicide and in particular the
importance of family in mental health outcomes for same-sex attracted young people …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to consider how the drama space is a way of inquiry in
its own right and as a complex “way of knowing” has a capacity to be a profitable location …

Suicide holds an ambivalent position in contemporary social and cultural contexts. It
questions what it means to live and die, yet provides no clear-cut answers about death or …