Challenging Oppressions and Hegemonic Normatives: Risk, Resistance, and Resilience

Abstract

ABSTRACT This review essay examines three texts, Boys' Stuff, Trauma, Stress, and Resilience Among Sexual Minority Women, and From Here to Diversity, that illustrate ways lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, straight, and questioning women, men, and adolescents struggle to survive and thrive in the United States, New Zealand, Australia, and other Western societies; societies which mandate compulsory representations of (hetero)sexuality and masculinity and reinforce the marginalization of those who are outside of, or do not conform to, those representations.