{"product_id":"the-tender-cut-9780814705186","title":"The Tender Cut","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIlluminates the misunderstood meaning of self-injury in the 21st century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patricia A. Adler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48088849187067,"sku":"9780814705186","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_b846234e-d579-4d22-88bb-8a6f399035cb.jpg?v=1770442711","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/the-tender-cut-9780814705186","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}