Growing Up Gay in Urban India, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018 A Critical Psychosocial Perspective
Auteur : Ranade Ketki
Ketki Ranade, PhD., is currently Assistant Professor at the Center for Health and Mental Health, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Ketki has worked for over a decade as a mental health service provider, trainer, researcher and activist and has developed mental health service programs in low income urban settlements and institutions in Pune, Maharashtra. Ketki has conducted research and published in areas such as medicalisation of homosexuality, gay affirmative counselling, familial responses to gay and lesbian family members, sexual rights of persons with psychosocial disability. Their areas of teaching include mental health policy, legislations and advocacy, clinical social work, interdisciplinary perspectives in mental health and qualitative research methodology. They have been a research fellow under the Health and Population Innovations Fellowship Programme (2006-09), Population Council, India. They were a member of the Expert Committee on Transgender Issues formed by the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India in 2013. Ketki is also member of LABIA, a queer feminist LBT collective in Bombay. Ketki uses the gender pronoun 'they'.
Provides a glimpse into the psychic worlds of gay and lesbian children and youth and their negotiations with a heterosexually constructed world around them
Uncovers heterosexist and heteronormative biases in human development perspectives and youth and childhood studies
Serves as a guide for mental health and child development professionals and trainees, and for parents, teachers and queer persons themselves
Date de parution : 12-2018
Ouvrage de 169 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
Disponible chez l'éditeur (délai d'approvisionnement : 15 jours).
Prix indicatif 94,94 €
Ajouter au panierDate de parution : 05-2018
Ouvrage de 169 p.
15.5x23.5 cm
Disponible chez l'éditeur (délai d'approvisionnement : 15 jours).
Prix indicatif 94,94 €
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Mots-clés :
non-normative sexualities; gender binarism; Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code; gay pride marches; Gay identity development; Pathologisation of same-sex sexuality; gender non-conformity; coming out process; self acceptance of homosexuality; queer community in India; life-span development; heterosexual assumptions within developmental psychology; LGBTQ lives in urban India