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Donna Gaines is a sociologist, journalist, and social worker in the United States. [1]
Gaines is best known for her work on youth suicide and popular culture. Gaines has written features for Rolling Stone , MS, the Village Voice , [2] [3] Spin , [4] Newsday and Salon . Gaines is the author of Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia's Dead End Kids (University of Chicago Press 1997), [5] A Misfit's Manifesto: The Sociological Memoir of a Rock & Roll Heart (Rutgers University Press 2007), [6] and Why The Ramones Matter (ForeEdge/UPNE 2018).