Lesbian and gay psychology : new perspectives

Introducing lesbian and gay psychology, Celia Kitzinger, University of York, and Adrian Coyle, University of Surrey; developmental issues for lesbian and gay youth, Ian Rivers, York St John College; girls' friendship and the formation of sexual identities, Christine Griffin, University of Birmingham; coming out as a lesbian, Laura A. Markowe, South Bank University; lesbian and gay parenting, Fiona Tasker, Birkbeck College, University of London; resistance and normalization in the construction of lesbian and gay families - a discursive analysis, Victoria Clark, Loughborough University; lesbian health, Sue Wilkinson, Loughborough University; gay men's physical and emotional well-being - re-orienting research and health promotion, Ian Warwick and Peter Aggleton, both University of London; psychopathology and the social and historical construction of gay male identities, Gary Taylor, University of Sussex; lesbian and gay affirmative psychotherapy - defining the domain, Martin Milton, University of Surrey, Adrian Coyle, University of Surrey, and Charles Legg, City University; family therapy with lesbian and gay clients, Maeve Malley, Birkbeck College, University of London, and Damian McCann, Edgware Community Hospital, London; "I've always tolerated it but" - heterosexual masculinity and the discursive reproduction of homophobia, Brendan Gough, University of Leeds; student support for lesbian and gay human rights - findings from a large-scale questionnaire study, Sonja J. Ellis, Sheffield Hallam University; lesbian and gay awareness training - challenging homophobia, liberalism and managing stereotypes, Elizabeth Peel, Loughborough University.

Written in an accessible but scholarly manner, this is the first British--edited and authored collection on lesbian and gay psychology.