{"product_id":"the-tender-cut-inside-the-hidden-world-of-self-injury-9780814705070","title":"The Tender Cut: Inside the Hidden World of Self-Injury","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChoice's Outstanding Academic Title list for 2013\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2013 Honorable Mention for the Distinguished Book Award presented by the Midwest Sociological Society\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHonorable Mention for the Charles H. Cooley Award for Outstanding Book from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIlluminates the misunderstood meaning of self-injury in the 21st century\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCutting, burning, branding, and bone-breaking are all types of self-injury, or the deliberate, non-suicidal destruction of one's own body tissue, a practice that emerged from obscurity in the 1990s and spread dramatically as a typical behavior among adolescents. Long considered a suicidal gesture, The Tender Cut argues instead that self-injury is often a coping mechanism, a form of teenage angst, an expression of group membership, and a type of rebellion, converting unbearable emotional pain into manageable physical pain. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on the largest, qualitative, non-clinical population of self-injurers ever gathered, noted ethnographers Patricia and Peter Adler draw on 150 interviews with self-injurers from all over the world, along with 30,000-40,000 internet posts in chat rooms and communiqués. Their 10-year longitudinal research follows the practice of self-injury from its early days when people engaged in it alone and did not know others, to the present, where a subculture has formed via cyberspace that shares similar norms, values, lore, vocabulary, and interests. An important portrait of a troubling behavior, The Tender Cut illuminates the meaning of self-injury in the 21st century, its effects on current and former users, and its future as a practice for self-discovery or a cry for help.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/22\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.03h x 6.09w x 0.67d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814705070\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2011 pg. 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/02\/2011 pg. 17\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2011 pg. 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdler, Patricia A.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003ePatricia A. Adler\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Peter Adler is Professor of Sociology at the University of Denver. They are the co-authors and co-editors of numerous books, including Peer Power, Paradise Laborers, and Constructions of Deviance. Both Adlers collaboratively received the 2010 George Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdler, Peter:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003ePeter Adler\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Sociology at the University of Denver. Patricia A. Adler is Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. They are the co-authors and co-editors of numerous books, including Peer Power, Paradise Laborers, and Constructions of Deviance. Both Adlers collaboratively received the 2010 George Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40239072575603,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":27.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_073386e9-f0c6-4057-bfb4-9c4949d1ac0b.jpg?v=1657114055","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-tender-cut-inside-the-hidden-world-of-self-injury-9780814705070","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}