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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).