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Book SynopsisThis book provides an overview of research and practice dealing with the specific needs of gay and bisexual men living with prostate cancer, as well as the special psychosocial needs of their partners. The intention is twofold: to provide insight into the unique experiences and concerns of gay or bisexual men living with prostate cancer in order to inform and assist future research, clinical practice and supportive care, and policy; and to ensure that the needs of gay and bisexual men are recognized and advanced on the mainstream prostate cancer agenda. Featuring both cutting-edge research and powerful portraits of gay and bisexual men living with prostate cancer, this book will be indispensable for health care, oncology, and mental health practitioners who seek to address their specific experiences and challenges.Trade ReviewThe challenges for gay and bisexual men with prostate cancer have remained poorly described for years – until this book. Covering multiple aspects of the diagnostic, treatment, and recovery periods, the studies presented illuminate the unique challenges for this population. The stories of individual gay men in the final chapters are especially poignant and highlight where the traditional medical establishment can improve services to these men. -- Anne Katz, editor of Oncology Nursing ForumThis is the definitive book covering the pioneering research that has helped make visible the specific needs and experiences of gay and bisexual men with prostate cancer. It is essential reading from the leaders in the field. -- Anthony Lowe, chief executive officer, Prostate Cancer Foundation of AustraliaRequired reading for urologists and oncologists who treat gay and bisexual men as well as for mental health practitioners. I would also recommend it to gay men contemplating treatment for prostate cancer and to their husbands and/or sexual partners as well. -- Jack Drescher, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and SurgeonsTable of ContentsForeword, by Jonathan Bergman and Mark S. LitwinIntroduction, by Jane M. Ussher, Janette Perz, and B. R. Simon RosserSection 1: Gay and Bisexual Men’s Experiences of Prostate Cancer: What Does Research Tell Us?1. Understanding Prostate Cancer in Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Women: A Review of the Literature, by B. R. Simon Rosser, Shanda L. Hunt, Benjamin D. Capistrant, Nidhi Kohli, Badrinath R. Konety, Darryl Mitteldorf, Michael W. Ross, Kristine M. Talley, and William West2. Threat to Gay Identity and Sexual Relationships: The Consequences of Prostate Cancer Treatment for Gay and Bisexual Men, by Jane M. Ussher, Janette Perz, Duncan Rose, Gary W. Dowsett, and David M. Latini3. Integrating Post-Prostatectomy Sexuality: The Couple’s Journey, by Daniela Wittmann4. “My partner is my family”: An Interdependence and Communal Coping Approach to Understanding Prostate Cancer in Same-Sex Male Couples, by Charles Kamen and Lynae Darbes5. Psychological Adjustment in Gay and Bisexual Men after Prostate Cancer, by Michael A. Hoyt and Brett M. Millar6. The Social Dimensions of Prostate Cancer in Gay Men’s Sexuality, by Gary W. Dowsett, Duane Duncan, Andrea Waling, Daniel R. du Plooy, and Garrett P. Prestage7. Gay Men and Prostate Cancer: Learning from the Voices of a Hidden Population, by Murray Drummond, James Smith, and Shaun FiliaultSection 2: Cancer Care and Support for Gay and Bisexual Men with Prostate Cancer8. Lack of Information and Unmet Needs: Gay and Bisexual Men’s Sexual Communication with Healthcare Professionals about Sex after Prostate Cancer, by Duncan Rose, Jane M. Ussher, and Janette Perz9. Prostate Cancer Treatment Decision-Making and Survivorship Considerations among Gay and Bisexual Men: Implications for Sexual Roles and Functioning, by Gwendolyn P. Quinn, Matthew B. Schabath, and Clement K. Gwede10. Sexual Aids for Gay and Bisexual Men and Transgender Women after Prostate Cancer Treatments, by Erik Wibowo and Richard Wassersug11. Experiences of Sexual Rehabilitation after Prostate Cancer: A Comparison of Gay and Bisexual Men with Heterosexual Men, by Jane M. Ussher, Duncan Rose, Janette Perz, Gary W. Dowsett, andAndrew Kellett12. Illness Intrusiveness and Social Support in Gay and Bisexual Men with Prostate Cancer, by Tae L. Hart, Crystal Hare, and David M. Latini13. The Effects of Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer on Gay and Bisexual Men’s Experiences of Mental Health, Sexual Functioning and Behavior, Sexual Identity, and Relationships, by William West, B. R. Simon Rosser, Benjamin D. Capistrant, Beatriz Torres, Badrinath R. Konety, Darryl Mitteldorf, Michael W. Ross, and Kristine M. Talley14. Toward a More Comprehensive Model of Prostate Cancer Care Inclusive of Gay and Bisexual Men and Transgender Women, by Donald Allensworth-Davies, Thomas O. Blank, Brian de Vries, and Emilia Lombardi15. Malecare: Twenty Years of Innovation and Service to Gay and Bisexual Men and Transgender Women with Prostate Cancer, by Darryl MitteldorfSection 3: Personal Experiences16. “Losing My Chestnut”: One Gay Man’s Wrangle with Prostate Cancer—Ten Years On, by Gary W. Dowsett17. What about Me?, by Ross Henderson18. An Invader in the Pleasure Dome, by Perry Brass19. Looking Back: Engaging Prostate Cancer as a Gay Man at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century, by Gerald Perlman20. A Shared Decision-Making Approach to Assessing Prostate Cancer Risk: A Gay Diary Case Study, by B. R. Simon Rosser, William West, and Badrinath R. KonetyGlossary About the Editors and Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis book provides an overview of research and practice dealing with the specific needs of gay and bisexual men living with prostate cancer, as well as the special psychosocial needs of their partners. The intention is twofold: to provide insight into the unique experiences and concerns of gay or bisexual men living with prostate cancer in order to inform and assist future research, clinical practice and supportive care, and policy; and to ensure that the needs of gay and bisexual men are recognized and advanced on the mainstream prostate cancer agenda. Featuring both cutting-edge research and powerful portraits of gay and bisexual men living with prostate cancer, this book will be indispensable for health care, oncology, and mental health practitioners who seek to address their specific experiences and challenges.Trade ReviewThe challenges for gay and bisexual men with prostate cancer have remained poorly described for years – until this book. Covering multiple aspects of the diagnostic, treatment, and recovery periods, the studies presented illuminate the unique challenges for this population. The stories of individual gay men in the final chapters are especially poignant and highlight where the traditional medical establishment can improve services to these men. -- Anne Katz, editor of Oncology Nursing ForumThis is the definitive book covering the pioneering research that has helped make visible the specific needs and experiences of gay and bisexual men with prostate cancer. It is essential reading from the leaders in the field. -- Anthony Lowe, chief executive officer, Prostate Cancer Foundation of AustraliaRequired reading for urologists and oncologists who treat gay and bisexual men as well as for mental health practitioners. I would also recommend it to gay men contemplating treatment for prostate cancer and to their husbands and/or sexual partners as well. -- Jack Drescher, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and SurgeonsTable of ContentsForeword, by Jonathan Bergman and Mark S. LitwinIntroduction, by Jane M. Ussher, Janette Perz, and B. R. Simon RosserSection 1: Gay and Bisexual Men’s Experiences of Prostate Cancer: What Does Research Tell Us?1. Understanding Prostate Cancer in Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Women: A Review of the Literature, by B. R. Simon Rosser, Shanda L. Hunt, Benjamin D. Capistrant, Nidhi Kohli, Badrinath R. Konety, Darryl Mitteldorf, Michael W. Ross, Kristine M. Talley, and William West2. Threat to Gay Identity and Sexual Relationships: The Consequences of Prostate Cancer Treatment for Gay and Bisexual Men, by Jane M. Ussher, Janette Perz, Duncan Rose, Gary W. Dowsett, and David M. Latini3. Integrating Post-Prostatectomy Sexuality: The Couple’s Journey, by Daniela Wittmann4. “My partner is my family”: An Interdependence and Communal Coping Approach to Understanding Prostate Cancer in Same-Sex Male Couples, by Charles Kamen and Lynae Darbes5. Psychological Adjustment in Gay and Bisexual Men after Prostate Cancer, by Michael A. Hoyt and Brett M. Millar6. The Social Dimensions of Prostate Cancer in Gay Men’s Sexuality, by Gary W. Dowsett, Duane Duncan, Andrea Waling, Daniel R. du Plooy, and Garrett P. Prestage7. Gay Men and Prostate Cancer: Learning from the Voices of a Hidden Population, by Murray Drummond, James Smith, and Shaun FiliaultSection 2: Cancer Care and Support for Gay and Bisexual Men with Prostate Cancer8. Lack of Information and Unmet Needs: Gay and Bisexual Men’s Sexual Communication with Healthcare Professionals about Sex after Prostate Cancer, by Duncan Rose, Jane M. Ussher, and Janette Perz9. Prostate Cancer Treatment Decision-Making and Survivorship Considerations among Gay and Bisexual Men: Implications for Sexual Roles and Functioning, by Gwendolyn P. Quinn, Matthew B. Schabath, and Clement K. Gwede10. Sexual Aids for Gay and Bisexual Men and Transgender Women after Prostate Cancer Treatments, by Erik Wibowo and Richard Wassersug11. Experiences of Sexual Rehabilitation after Prostate Cancer: A Comparison of Gay and Bisexual Men with Heterosexual Men, by Jane M. Ussher, Duncan Rose, Janette Perz, Gary W. Dowsett, andAndrew Kellett12. Illness Intrusiveness and Social Support in Gay and Bisexual Men with Prostate Cancer, by Tae L. Hart, Crystal Hare, and David M. Latini13. The Effects of Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer on Gay and Bisexual Men’s Experiences of Mental Health, Sexual Functioning and Behavior, Sexual Identity, and Relationships, by William West, B. R. Simon Rosser, Benjamin D. Capistrant, Beatriz Torres, Badrinath R. Konety, Darryl Mitteldorf, Michael W. Ross, and Kristine M. Talley14. Toward a More Comprehensive Model of Prostate Cancer Care Inclusive of Gay and Bisexual Men and Transgender Women, by Donald Allensworth-Davies, Thomas O. Blank, Brian de Vries, and Emilia Lombardi15. Malecare: Twenty Years of Innovation and Service to Gay and Bisexual Men and Transgender Women with Prostate Cancer, by Darryl MitteldorfSection 3: Personal Experiences16. “Losing My Chestnut”: One Gay Man’s Wrangle with Prostate Cancer—Ten Years On, by Gary W. Dowsett17. What about Me?, by Ross Henderson18. An Invader in the Pleasure Dome, by Perry Brass19. Looking Back: Engaging Prostate Cancer as a Gay Man at the Turn of the Twenty-first Century, by Gerald Perlman20. A Shared Decision-Making Approach to Assessing Prostate Cancer Risk: A Gay Diary Case Study, by B. R. Simon Rosser, William West, and Badrinath R. KonetyGlossary About the Editors and Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFamilies in Transition: Parenting Gender Diverse Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults is a compilation of clinically oriented articles, research, and case material authored by mental health and medical experts, both nationally and internationally known, as well as first-person narratives written by parents and families, exploring the complexities faced by parents and caretakers attending to the needs of their children in a largely hostile world. The professional articles are positioned side by side with the voices of the parents themselves—each complementing the other—together adding up to a richly complex, original tapestry.While most books on this subject highlight the experiences of the gender diverse child and adolescent, parents’ perspectives are placed front and center. Those raising these children and adolescents have unique struggles and personal processes as caregivers and advocates. Making complex social and medical decisions in a society that is hostile and polarized only complicates the picture. This book highlights their rarely heard voices and gives insight to therapists and physicians on how to support all members of the family, helping them grow and heal during what is often a challenging time.Families in Transition:-Challenges the ways we think about cultural norms and how those impact our clinical work;-Explores a parent’s desire for their child to live authentically alongside a desire to protect them;-Highlights how the attitudes and behaviors of extended relatives impact the gender nonconforming child and their caretakers;-Presents a historical overview contrasting the reparative and the affirmative models of treatment;-Illustrates how difficult treatment can be when a patient is reticent to disclose their gender identity to their parents or when parents either have little information or are in denial;-Offers strategies on how best to advocate for a child in a school setting;-Outlines best practices for the care of transgender youth.This text is designed for mental health professionals—clinicians, educators, and researchers; medical providers; parents and caretakers of gender diverse children, adolescents, and young adults; and is suitable for graduate and doctoral level coursework in a range of subject areas, including gender, sexuality, and family studies.Trade ReviewThis is an urgent, timely book that elucidates the complexities and revelations families face as they go through transition. Full of indispensable advice and wisdom, all beautifully organized and compassionately expressed, it is a vital guide. -- Andrew Solomon, professor of clinical psychology, Columbia University Medical Center and author of Far From the TreeWithin these pages, a dream team of professionals cover a giant plethora of topics. This book is the new go-to bible for all loved ones of transgender youth. -- Jeanette Jennings, mom of trans youth activist Jazz Jennings and president of the TransKids Purple Rainbow FoundationIncorporating the work of leading researchers and therapists, Lev and Gottlieb provide a comprehensive understanding of gender diverse kids and their families. Their balanced presentation pairs the most up-to-date research with real-life experiences of families in transition. The result is a compelling volume that bridges understandings, offers practical guidance, and inspires all of us to do better in supporting our gender expansive kids. -- M. Paz Galupo, Ph.D., Towson University, and editor of the Journal of GLBT Family StudiesA compelling, comprehensive, and sensitive compendium of solutions for families of trans and gender creative youth! Offering gem after gem, Families in Transition is a gift, helping parents move toward acceptance for the sake of protection. -- Lee-Anne Gray, PsyD, author of LGBTQ+ Youth, Self-Compassion for Teens, and The Happy FamilyLev and Gottlieb pull together a comprehensive exploration of the power of family support, discuss the profound impact of raising a transgender and gender nonconforming child, and address the importance of affirmative approaches to help navigate their journey. The personal and professional focus on the often misunderstood and silenced voices of parents and family members, whose love, wisdom, concerns, struggles, and joys are candidly explored, makes this a must read. -- Shawn V. Giammattei, PhD, Quest Family Therapy & Alliant International University (Rockway Institute)Table of ContentsA Note on the Evolution of LanguageForeword, by Jean Malpas, LMHC, LMFT Ackerman Institute for the Family New York CityIntroduction, by Andrew R. Gottlieb, PhD, LCSWIntroduction, by Arlene I. Lev, LCSW-R, CASAC, CSTPart 1: Gender Nonconforming Children and Trans Youth: What You Didn’t Expect When Expecting1. It Takes a Gender Creative Parent, by Diane Ehrensaft, PhD2. Helping Parents Face Their Fears, by Irwin Krieger, LCSW3. On the (L)edge of Transition: The Reyes Family, by Lisette Lahana, LCSWPart 2: Theory and Research: What Should Parents Be Aware Of?4. The “80% Desistance” Dictum: Is It Science?, by Kelley Winters, PhD5. All in the Family: How Extended Family Relationships Are Influenced by Children’s Gender Diverse and Transgender Identities, by Katherine A. Kuvalanka, PhD, Molly Gardner, MA, and Cat Munroe, PhD6. More Than the Sum of Your Parts: A Theoretical Perspective, by Andreas Neumann Mascis, PhDPart 3: Clinical Issues: What Are the Parents’ Concerns and Challenges Regarding Cultural Diversity, Clinical Models, and Psychiatric Treatment?7. Walking a Tightrope: A Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Perspective on the Spectrum of Affirmation and Pathologization with Gender Diverse Youth, by Scott Leibowitz, MD8. Chinese Canadian Families with Transgender Youth, by Nena Wang, MA, and Wallace Wong, PsyD, R Psych9. Approaches to the Treatment of Gender Diverse Children and Transgender Youth, by Arlene I. Lev, LCSW-R, CASAC, CST10. Micah and His Protectors, by Lisette Lahana, LCSWPart 4: Identity Transformation: How Do Children’s Gender Identity/Gender Nonconforming Behaviors Shift Parents’ Perceptions of Their Child and of Themselves as Parents?11. Transforming the Identity of Parents of Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Children, by Margaret Nichols, PhD, and Stephanie Sasso, PsyD12. My Own Transition, by Elena Moser, LCSWPart 5: Medical Concerns: How Do Puberty Suppression and/or Hormonal Considerations Affect Parents?13. But Doc, Is It Safe? Effects of Pubertal Suppression and Trans Hormone Therapy for Youth, by Irene N. Sills, MD14. Discussing Aspects of Medical Transition with Parents of Young Transgender People: A Psychotherapist’s Perspective, by Damien W. Riggs, PhD, FAPS15. Family-Oriented Medical Care for Gender Nonconforming Children, Adolescents, and Their Families, by Carolyn Wolf-Gould, MD16. When My Son Became My Daughter, by C.V.R., PhDPart 6: Family Functioning: What Is the Effect of Gender Atypical Behavior on Parental Relationships, Extended Family, and Siblings?17. Supporting Siblings through Transition: A Child-Centered, Transfeminist Therapeutic Approach, by Shannon L. Sennott, LICSW, and Davis Chandler, LICSW18. “I Was Hoping It Would Be a Phase”: The Challenges Parents Face Raising a Gender Nonconforming Child, by Elizabeth Anne Riley, PhD19. The Experiences of Parents of Transgender Individuals Who Transition in Adulthood, by Katherine Rachlin, PhD20. Transition in Four Voices, by Barbara Rio-Glick, MSW, Shelley Rio-Glick, MSW, Sonya Rio-Glick,and AJ Rio-GlickPart 7: Educational Concerns: How Do Parents Manage and Advocate for Gender Nonconforming Children and Transition-Related Issues in a School Setting?21. Social Transitioning for Gender Dysphoric Children: A Practical Guide for Parents, by Wallace Wong, PsyD, R Psych, and Sabrina C. H. Chang, MA22. Please Stop Calling My Daughter “He”: Advocating for Teens and Preteens in the School Setting, by Deborah Coolhart, PhD, LMFTPart 8: Support Groups: What Is the Parent’s Experience of Available Support Groups and Advocacy Organizations?23. The Experience of Parent Facilitators in a PFLAG Support Group for Parents of Transgender Youth and Young Adults, by Melissa MacNish, MA, LMHC24. Peer Support for Parents of Gender Nonconforming Children: Benefits and Risks, by Rex Butt, PhD25. Camp Aranu’tiq: Notes from the First Camp for Transgender and Gender Variant Youth, by Nick M. Teich, LCSW, PhD26. Tom-Girl, Trans Girl, Pink Boy: Finding a Support Group for All, by Lauren P., PsyDAppendix: Best Practices for the Care of Transgender YouthAbout the Editors and Contributors Acknowledgments, by Andrew R. GottliebAcknowledgments, by Arlene I. LevIndex

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Book SynopsisFamilies in Transition: Parenting Gender Diverse Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults is a compilation of clinically oriented articles, research, and case material authored by mental health and medical experts, both nationally and internationally known, as well as first-person narratives written by parents and families, exploring the complexities faced by parents and caretakers attending to the needs of their children in a largely hostile world. The professional articles are positioned side by side with the voices of the parents themselves—each complementing the other—together adding up to a richly complex, original tapestry.While most books on this subject highlight the experiences of the gender diverse child and adolescent, parents’ perspectives are placed front and center. Those raising these children and adolescents have unique struggles and personal processes as caregivers and advocates. Making complex social and medical decisions in a society that is hostile and polarized only complicates the picture. This book highlights their rarely heard voices and gives insight to therapists and physicians on how to support all members of the family, helping them grow and heal during what is often a challenging time.Families in Transition:-Challenges the ways we think about cultural norms and how those impact our clinical work;-Explores a parent’s desire for their child to live authentically alongside a desire to protect them;-Highlights how the attitudes and behaviors of extended relatives impact the gender nonconforming child and their caretakers;-Presents a historical overview contrasting the reparative and the affirmative models of treatment;-Illustrates how difficult treatment can be when a patient is reticent to disclose their gender identity to their parents or when parents either have little information or are in denial;-Offers strategies on how best to advocate for a child in a school setting;-Outlines best practices for the care of transgender youth.This text is designed for mental health professionals—clinicians, educators, and researchers; medical providers; parents and caretakers of gender diverse children, adolescents, and young adults; and is suitable for graduate and doctoral level coursework in a range of subject areas, including gender, sexuality, and family studies.Trade ReviewThis is an urgent, timely book that elucidates the complexities and revelations families face as they go through transition. Full of indispensable advice and wisdom, all beautifully organized and compassionately expressed, it is a vital guide. -- Andrew Solomon, professor of clinical psychology, Columbia University Medical Center and author of Far From the TreeWithin these pages, a dream team of professionals cover a giant plethora of topics. This book is the new go-to bible for all loved ones of transgender youth. -- Jeanette Jennings, mom of trans youth activist Jazz Jennings and president of the TransKids Purple Rainbow FoundationIncorporating the work of leading researchers and therapists, Lev and Gottlieb provide a comprehensive understanding of gender diverse kids and their families. Their balanced presentation pairs the most up-to-date research with real-life experiences of families in transition. The result is a compelling volume that bridges understandings, offers practical guidance, and inspires all of us to do better in supporting our gender expansive kids. -- M. Paz Galupo, Ph.D., Towson University, and editor of the Journal of GLBT Family StudiesA compelling, comprehensive, and sensitive compendium of solutions for families of trans and gender creative youth! Offering gem after gem, Families in Transition is a gift, helping parents move toward acceptance for the sake of protection. -- Lee-Anne Gray, PsyD, author of LGBTQ+ Youth, Self-Compassion for Teens, and The Happy FamilyLev and Gottlieb pull together a comprehensive exploration of the power of family support, discuss the profound impact of raising a transgender and gender nonconforming child, and address the importance of affirmative approaches to help navigate their journey. The personal and professional focus on the often misunderstood and silenced voices of parents and family members, whose love, wisdom, concerns, struggles, and joys are candidly explored, makes this a must read. -- Shawn V. Giammattei, PhD, Quest Family Therapy & Alliant International University (Rockway Institute)Table of ContentsA Note on the Evolution of LanguageForeword, by Jean Malpas, LMHC, LMFT Ackerman Institute for the Family New York CityIntroduction, by Andrew R. Gottlieb, PhD, LCSWIntroduction, by Arlene I. Lev, LCSW-R, CASAC, CSTPart 1: Gender Nonconforming Children and Trans Youth: What You Didn’t Expect When Expecting1. It Takes a Gender Creative Parent, by Diane Ehrensaft, PhD2. Helping Parents Face Their Fears, by Irwin Krieger, LCSW3. On the (L)edge of Transition: The Reyes Family, by Lisette Lahana, LCSWPart 2: Theory and Research: What Should Parents Be Aware Of?4. The “80% Desistance” Dictum: Is It Science?, by Kelley Winters, PhD5. All in the Family: How Extended Family Relationships Are Influenced by Children’s Gender Diverse and Transgender Identities, by Katherine A. Kuvalanka, PhD, Molly Gardner, MA, and Cat Munroe, PhD6. More Than the Sum of Your Parts: A Theoretical Perspective, by Andreas Neumann Mascis, PhDPart 3: Clinical Issues: What Are the Parents’ Concerns and Challenges Regarding Cultural Diversity, Clinical Models, and Psychiatric Treatment?7. Walking a Tightrope: A Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Perspective on the Spectrum of Affirmation and Pathologization with Gender Diverse Youth, by Scott Leibowitz, MD8. Chinese Canadian Families with Transgender Youth, by Nena Wang, MA, and Wallace Wong, PsyD, R Psych9. Approaches to the Treatment of Gender Diverse Children and Transgender Youth, by Arlene I. Lev, LCSW-R, CASAC, CST10. Micah and His Protectors, by Lisette Lahana, LCSWPart 4: Identity Transformation: How Do Children’s Gender Identity/Gender Nonconforming Behaviors Shift Parents’ Perceptions of Their Child and of Themselves as Parents?11. Transforming the Identity of Parents of Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Children, by Margaret Nichols, PhD, and Stephanie Sasso, PsyD12. My Own Transition, by Elena Moser, LCSWPart 5: Medical Concerns: How Do Puberty Suppression and/or Hormonal Considerations Affect Parents?13. But Doc, Is It Safe? Effects of Pubertal Suppression and Trans Hormone Therapy for Youth, by Irene N. Sills, MD14. Discussing Aspects of Medical Transition with Parents of Young Transgender People: A Psychotherapist’s Perspective, by Damien W. Riggs, PhD, FAPS15. Family-Oriented Medical Care for Gender Nonconforming Children, Adolescents, and Their Families, by Carolyn Wolf-Gould, MD16. When My Son Became My Daughter, by C.V.R., PhDPart 6: Family Functioning: What Is the Effect of Gender Atypical Behavior on Parental Relationships, Extended Family, and Siblings?17. Supporting Siblings through Transition: A Child-Centered, Transfeminist Therapeutic Approach, by Shannon L. Sennott, LICSW, and Davis Chandler, LICSW18. “I Was Hoping It Would Be a Phase”: The Challenges Parents Face Raising a Gender Nonconforming Child, by Elizabeth Anne Riley, PhD19. The Experiences of Parents of Transgender Individuals Who Transition in Adulthood, by Katherine Rachlin, PhD20. Transition in Four Voices, by Barbara Rio-Glick, MSW, Shelley Rio-Glick, MSW, Sonya Rio-Glick,and AJ Rio-GlickPart 7: Educational Concerns: How Do Parents Manage and Advocate for Gender Nonconforming Children and Transition-Related Issues in a School Setting?21. Social Transitioning for Gender Dysphoric Children: A Practical Guide for Parents, by Wallace Wong, PsyD, R Psych, and Sabrina C. H. Chang, MA22. Please Stop Calling My Daughter “He”: Advocating for Teens and Preteens in the School Setting, by Deborah Coolhart, PhD, LMFTPart 8: Support Groups: What Is the Parent’s Experience of Available Support Groups and Advocacy Organizations?23. The Experience of Parent Facilitators in a PFLAG Support Group for Parents of Transgender Youth and Young Adults, by Melissa MacNish, MA, LMHC24. Peer Support for Parents of Gender Nonconforming Children: Benefits and Risks, by Rex Butt, PhD25. Camp Aranu’tiq: Notes from the First Camp for Transgender and Gender Variant Youth, by Nick M. Teich, LCSW, PhD26. Tom-Girl, Trans Girl, Pink Boy: Finding a Support Group for All, by Lauren P., PsyDAppendix: Best Practices for the Care of Transgender YouthAbout the Editors and Contributors Acknowledgments, by Andrew R. GottliebAcknowledgments, by Arlene I. LevIndex

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Book SynopsisWritten for entry-level survey courses in queer or LGBTQ+ Studies for students from all majors, this engaging text covers a wide range of topics. Early chapters consider the meaning of “queer” and examine identities such as trans, bi, and intersex. Intersections between sexuality/gender expression and other identities such as race, ethnicity, and class are also examined. The book then reviews life experiences such as families, friendship, religion and spirituality, health, and politics through the lens of queerness.Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries:-Engages undergraduates with a narrative that applies key ideas to their own lives and experiences-Questions various binaries (“either/or” pairings) to help students examine their own sexual identity and gender expression-Reviews foundational concepts from queer theory and queer history to create a deeper understanding of the concepts-Emphasizes an intersectionality approach that demonstrates how one’s identity is the product of multiple characteristics such as sexuality, gender, race, class, and dis/ability-Uses a multidisciplinary approach drawing from the social and natural sciences, humanities, and arts to provide a broad overview of perspectives-Details an individual or an event in Spotlight on sections to highlight the experiences of queer people. -Provides questions for class discussion or field activities in Issues for Investigation sections that apply the ideas covered in the chapter-Allows instructors to shape the class with different foci using the stand-alone chapters in Part III-Features an Instructor’s resource manual available to adopters with 20+ PowerPoint slides for each chapter, sample syllabi for a variety of courses, teaching tips for using the Spotlight On and Issues for Investigation sections and the suggested readings, a test bank with objective and essay questions, and student aids such as keywords, chapter outlines and summaries, and learning objectivesDesigned for undergraduate courses in queer or LGBT+ Studies requiring no prerequisites, Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries also serves as an excellent supplement in courses on queer theory or history, or on sexuality, gender, and women’s studies.Trade ReviewWith this book, a leading expert in queer studies has effectively synthesized and explained relevant information about this area. This book is timely, original, and distinctly understandable. It could easily be adopted in advanced college courses focused on queer studies, especially given the volume’s accessibility. I appreciate the conversational tone, the coherent structure, and the relevant and practical examples. -- Tony Adams, Bradley UniversityBruce Henderson is a master storyteller. In Queer Studies, he effortlessly guides us through a plethora of complex subjects, including education, politics, religion, and the arts. His eloquent, accessible language allows us to see these myriad subjects queerly anew. I’ll be teaching my ‘Gender and Communication’ students this brilliant, immensely readable book for years to come. -- Donna Marie Nudd, Florida State UniversityThis text is a much needed and invaluable resource offering a solid and thorough overview of queer studies, with an attention to the most up-to-date research, as well as foundational scholarship. Its intersectional approach makes it an important contribution and intervention in the teaching of queer studies. Material is presented in a variety of ways that are accessible to a wide variety of readers and various types of learners in queer studies, critical sexualities, and gender studies courses. -- Bernadette Marie Calafell, Gonzaga UniversityHenderson takes an engaging approach in this impressively comprehensive exploration into the quickly expanding universe of queer studies. Ideal for upper-level undergraduate courses focused on understanding queer theory and its application to the daily lives of queer folx, Henderson deftly weaves together challenging theorists, historical moments, and popular culture in ways that push the reader to new ways of considering complex issues. Henderson has created a text that should become a staple in foundational queer studies texts. -- Noam Ostrander, DePaul UniversityFeaturing a comprehensive but accessible coverage of queer studies, this book reviews a number of topics, ranging from language to schooling to citizenship. It presents a thorough discussion about key issues and important scholarly figures pertaining to queer studies. The author incorporates a number of diverse queer scholars and pays close attention to their differing theoretical and identity standpoints with care. The discussions in each chapter are rich and the examples are culturally relevant and thought-provoking. -- Ahmet Atay, College of WoosterGeared to introductory college level teaching, this eminently readable textbook explains sophisticated ideas in a way geared to students as yet unfamiliar with the field and its often dense language. Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries delivers on its eponymous promise, taking students by the hand into complex deconstructive territory with gentle guidance while offering balanced coverage of the key terms, historiographies, debates, and political issues in the field. -- Jonathan D. Katz, University of PennsylvaniaHistorical in its rigorous genealogy of terms and ideas, playful in its uptake of popular culture, and accessible in its easy narration of complex critical theory, Queer Studies is a genuinely interdisciplinary teaching text. Especially productive for class discussions are the various “spotlights” that offer unique case studies to illustrate difficult concepts and scholarly debates. -- Kareem Khubchandani, Tufts UniversityQueer Studies reviews academic theories and research and translates them in a way that is accessible to undergraduates with no prior background in queer theory. Another strength is the attention to race, ethnicity, and class throughout the book. Henderson’s use of many different texts including academic work, examples from popular media, literature, the lived experiences of queer communities and people, and current events will engage undergraduates. The book covers an impressive range of contexts including school, family, health, religion, and citizenship in a thorough way. -- Emily Kazyak, University of Nebraska-LincolnQueer Studies is an invaluable tool to teach queer studies in the current academic context. Addressing the challenges of a constantly changing field, Henderson introduces an amazing variety of resources, which he presents and explains in a direct, warm, and accessible style. -- Mat Fournier, Ithaca CollegeFluidly written in an accessible style...highly recommended. * Choice *This textbook is highly recommended for introductory undergraduate queer studies courses. * RGWS: A Feminist Review *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Queering “Queering”: A Way of Seeing/Experiencing/KnowingPart I. Queering Language1. Queering Language: Words and WorldsPart II. Queering Identity2. Queering Desire: Knowing “Feeling”3. Queering Identifties: From “I” to “We”4. Queering Bodies: Transgender and Intersex Lives5. Queering Privilege: Whiteness and Class6. Queering Intersectionality: Race and EthnicityPart III. Queering Contexts7. Queering School8. Queering Sociality: Friends, Family, and Kinship9. Queering Health: Well-Being, Medicalization, and Recreation10. Queering Spirituality: Religion, Belief, and Beyond11. Queering Citizenship: Politics, Power, and JusticePart IV. Queering Imagination12. Queering Imagination: Arts, Aesthetics, and ExpressionConclusion: Imagining Utopias in Queer StudiesAppendix: Primary Texts for StudyGlossaryWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisWritten for entry-level survey courses in queer or LGBTQ+ Studies for students from all majors, this engaging text covers a wide range of topics. Early chapters consider the meaning of “queer” and examine identities such as trans, bi, and intersex. Intersections between sexuality/gender expression and other identities such as race, ethnicity, and class are also examined. The book then reviews life experiences such as families, friendship, religion and spirituality, health, and politics through the lens of queerness.Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries:-Engages undergraduates with a narrative that applies key ideas to their own lives and experiences-Questions various binaries (“either/or” pairings) to help students examine their own sexual identity and gender expression-Reviews foundational concepts from queer theory and queer history to create a deeper understanding of the concepts-Emphasizes an intersectionality approach that demonstrates how one’s identity is the product of multiple characteristics such as sexuality, gender, race, class, and dis/ability-Uses a multidisciplinary approach drawing from the social and natural sciences, humanities, and arts to provide a broad overview of perspectives-Details an individual or an event in Spotlight on sections to highlight the experiences of queer people. -Provides questions for class discussion or field activities in Issues for Investigation sections that apply the ideas covered in the chapter-Allows instructors to shape the class with different foci using the stand-alone chapters in Part III-Features an Instructor’s resource manual available to adopters with 20+ PowerPoint slides for each chapter, sample syllabi for a variety of courses, teaching tips for using the Spotlight On and Issues for Investigation sections and the suggested readings, a test bank with objective and essay questions, and student aids such as keywords, chapter outlines and summaries, and learning objectivesDesigned for undergraduate courses in queer or LGBT+ Studies requiring no prerequisites, Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries also serves as an excellent supplement in courses on queer theory or history, or on sexuality, gender, and women’s studies.Trade ReviewWith this book, a leading expert in queer studies has effectively synthesized and explained relevant information about this area. This book is timely, original, and distinctly understandable. It could easily be adopted in advanced college courses focused on queer studies, especially given the volume’s accessibility. I appreciate the conversational tone, the coherent structure, and the relevant and practical examples. -- Tony Adams, Bradley UniversityBruce Henderson is a master storyteller. In Queer Studies, he effortlessly guides us through a plethora of complex subjects, including education, politics, religion, and the arts. His eloquent, accessible language allows us to see these myriad subjects queerly anew. I’ll be teaching my ‘Gender and Communication’ students this brilliant, immensely readable book for years to come. -- Donna Marie Nudd, Florida State UniversityThis text is a much needed and invaluable resource offering a solid and thorough overview of queer studies, with an attention to the most up-to-date research, as well as foundational scholarship. Its intersectional approach makes it an important contribution and intervention in the teaching of queer studies. Material is presented in a variety of ways that are accessible to a wide variety of readers and various types of learners in queer studies, critical sexualities, and gender studies courses. -- Bernadette Marie Calafell, Gonzaga UniversityHenderson takes an engaging approach in this impressively comprehensive exploration into the quickly expanding universe of queer studies. Ideal for upper-level undergraduate courses focused on understanding queer theory and its application to the daily lives of queer folx, Henderson deftly weaves together challenging theorists, historical moments, and popular culture in ways that push the reader to new ways of considering complex issues. Henderson has created a text that should become a staple in foundational queer studies texts. -- Noam Ostrander, DePaul UniversityFeaturing a comprehensive but accessible coverage of queer studies, this book reviews a number of topics, ranging from language to schooling to citizenship. It presents a thorough discussion about key issues and important scholarly figures pertaining to queer studies. The author incorporates a number of diverse queer scholars and pays close attention to their differing theoretical and identity standpoints with care. The discussions in each chapter are rich and the examples are culturally relevant and thought-provoking. -- Ahmet Atay, College of WoosterGeared to introductory college level teaching, this eminently readable textbook explains sophisticated ideas in a way geared to students as yet unfamiliar with the field and its often dense language. Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries delivers on its eponymous promise, taking students by the hand into complex deconstructive territory with gentle guidance while offering balanced coverage of the key terms, historiographies, debates, and political issues in the field. -- Jonathan D. Katz, University of PennsylvaniaHistorical in its rigorous genealogy of terms and ideas, playful in its uptake of popular culture, and accessible in its easy narration of complex critical theory, Queer Studies is a genuinely interdisciplinary teaching text. Especially productive for class discussions are the various “spotlights” that offer unique case studies to illustrate difficult concepts and scholarly debates. -- Kareem Khubchandani, Tufts UniversityQueer Studies reviews academic theories and research and translates them in a way that is accessible to undergraduates with no prior background in queer theory. Another strength is the attention to race, ethnicity, and class throughout the book. Henderson’s use of many different texts including academic work, examples from popular media, literature, the lived experiences of queer communities and people, and current events will engage undergraduates. The book covers an impressive range of contexts including school, family, health, religion, and citizenship in a thorough way. -- Emily Kazyak, University of Nebraska-LincolnQueer Studies is an invaluable tool to teach queer studies in the current academic context. Addressing the challenges of a constantly changing field, Henderson introduces an amazing variety of resources, which he presents and explains in a direct, warm, and accessible style. -- Mat Fournier, Ithaca CollegeFluidly written in an accessible style...highly recommended. * Choice *This textbook is highly recommended for introductory undergraduate queer studies courses. * RGWS: A Feminist Review *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Queering “Queering”: A Way of Seeing/Experiencing/KnowingPart I. Queering Language1. Queering Language: Words and WorldsPart II. Queering Identity2. Queering Desire: Knowing “Feeling”3. Queering Identifties: From “I” to “We”4. Queering Bodies: Transgender and Intersex Lives5. Queering Privilege: Whiteness and Class6. Queering Intersectionality: Race and EthnicityPart III. Queering Contexts7. Queering School8. Queering Sociality: Friends, Family, and Kinship9. Queering Health: Well-Being, Medicalization, and Recreation10. Queering Spirituality: Religion, Belief, and Beyond11. Queering Citizenship: Politics, Power, and JusticePart IV. Queering Imagination12. Queering Imagination: Arts, Aesthetics, and ExpressionConclusion: Imagining Utopias in Queer StudiesAppendix: Primary Texts for StudyGlossaryWorks CitedIndex

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Book SynopsisStudies have shown that married couples have better mental and physical health than unmarried people. Leading scholars and policy makers propose that marriage can provide similar benefits to people in both same-sex and different-sex relationships. Though research on the health and well-being of same-sex couples is a new and growing field, Marriage and Health: The Well-Being of Same-Sex Couples represents the forefront of marriage and health research and the far-reaching policy implications for the health of same-sex couples. This collection of essays presents new perspectives that address current opportunities and challenges faced by people in same-sex unions in multiple domains of well-being, including physical and mental health, social support, socialized behaviors, and stigmas. The book offers a broad view of same-sex couples’ experiences by examining not only marriage and civil unions, but also dating and cohabiting relationships as well as same-sex sexual experiences outside of relationships. Trade Review“We are only at the beginning of understanding how marriage and other types of romantic unions influence mental and physical health for same-sex couples. The editors of Marriage and Health have deftly brought together the best evidence available to tell us what is currently known and where we need to go in the future. This volume serves as a guide to the most important questions, challenges, and strategic directions for research on same-sex relationships—all essential to protecting and maximizing the health and well-being of sexual minority populations.” -- Debra Umberson * author of "Death of a Parent: Transition to a New Adult Identity" *“Marriage and Health: The Well-Being of Same-Sex Couples is a welcome and overdue addition to the burgeoning literature on sexuality and health. By addressing a critical question—Does marriage matter for the well-being of those in sexual minority unions in similar ways as it does for those in heterosexual unions?—from multiple vantage points, this unique collection of cutting-edge studies is more than the sum of its parts and provides essential theoretical and empirical foundations for future research. It is my sincere hope that this important book will be widely read and stimulate a next generation of data collection and investigation.” -- Andrew S. London * co-editor of "Life Course Perspectives on Military Service" *"The editors should be commended for the breadth with which they treat the topic and the progress this collection represents in helping to empirically normalize same-sex marriage....Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Péter Berta Introduction: The Health and Well-Being of Sexuality Minority Couples Hui Liu, Corinne Reczek and Lindsey Wilkinson Part I: Mental Health Chapter 1: Serious Mental Illness in Same-Sex and Different-Sex Unions Dustin Brown, Corinne Reczek and Hui Liu Chapter 2: Well-Being during Time with a Partner among Men and Women in Same-Sex Unions Sarah Marie Flood and Katherine Rose Genadek Chapter 3: Consequences of Unequal Legal Recognition: Same-Sex Couples’ Experiences of Stress Prior to Obergefell v. Hodges Eli Alston-Stepnitz, David M. Frost and Allen J. LeBlanc Chapter 4: Postpartum Depression and Anxiety in Male-Partnered and Female-Partnered Sexual Minority Women: A Longitudinal Study Abbie E. Goldberg, JuliAnna Z. Smith and Lori E. Ross Part II: Health Behaviors Chapter 5: Health and Health Behaviors among Same-Sex and Different-Sex Coupled Adults With and Without Children Justin T. Denney, Jarron M. Saint Onge, Bridget K. Gorman and Patrick M. Krueger Chapter 6: Couples’ Conjoint Work Hours and Health Behaviors: Do Gender and Sexual Identity Matter? Wen Fan Chapter 7: Union Status and Overweight/Obesity among Sexual Minority Men and Women Zelma Oyarvide Tuthill, Bridget K. Gorman and Navya R. Kumar Chapter 8: Same-Sex Contact and Alternative Medicine Usage among Older Adults Lacey J. Ritter and Koji Ueno Part III: Physical Health, Mortality and Health Care Chapter 9: Activity Limitations Disparities between Same-Sex and Different-Sex Couples Russell L. Spiker Chapter 10: Same-Sex Unions and Adult Mortality Risk: A Nationally-Representative Analysis Andrew Fenelon, Christina Dragon, Corinne Reczek and Hui Liu Chapter 11: Access to Health Care for Partnered and Non-Partnered Sexual Minorities Matt Ruther and Ning Hsieh Chapter 12: Law and Same-Sex Couples’ Experiences of Childbirth Emily Kazyak and Emma Finken Chapter 13: Married in Texas: Findings from a LGBTQ Community Needs Assessment Kara Sutton and Richard K. Scotch Part IV: Relationship Quality, Experience and Identity Chapter 14: Social Context and The Stability of Same-Sex and Different-Sex Relationships Kara Joyner, Wendy Manning and Barbara Prince Chapter 15: Same-Sex Marriage and Mental Health: The Role of Marital Quality Sara Mernitz, Amanda Pollitt and Debra Umberson Chapter 16: First Sexual Experience with a Same-Sex Partner in the United States: Evidence from a National Sample Karin L. Brewster, Kathryn Harker Tillman and Giuseppina Valle Holway Chapter 17: Two Sides of a Coin”: Nuances of Maternal Identity for Lesbian Mothers Rachel L. Henry Conclusion: Future Directions for Research on Health of Sexual Minority Couples Corinne Reczek, Hui Liu and Lindsey Wilkinson

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Book Synopsis2020 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood, Hannah Dyer offers a study of how children’s art and art about childhood can forecast new models of social life that redistribute care, belonging, and political value. Dyer suggests that childhood’s cultural expressions offer insight into the persisting residues of colonial history, nation building, homophobia, and related violence. Drawing from queer and feminist theory, psychoanalysis, settler-colonial studies, and cultural studies, this book helps to explain how some theories of childhood can hurt children. Dyer’s analysis moves between diverse sites and scales, including photographs and an art installation, children’s drawings after experiencing war in Gaza, a novel about gay love and childhood trauma, and debates in sex-education. In the cultural formations of art, she finds new theories of childhood that attend to the knowledge, trauma, fortitude and experience that children might possess. In addressing aggressions against children, ambivalences towards child protection, and the vital contributions children make to transnational politics, she seeks new and queer theories of childhood. Trade ReviewExciting, tender, persuasive, and smart. Dyers’ book is a clarion call to care for the bodies we call children. Let their creativity, strange in all its beauties, tell us how they’re harmed—hurt by norms that foster inequalities. I believe more than ever, thanks to Hannah Dyer, that “children” and “aesthetics” are the most profound pairing for safeguarding pleasure, for all living creatures, amid world trauma. — Kathryn Bond Stockton, author of The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century The Queer Aesthetics of Childhood makes a necessary and nuanced intervention in contemporary theorizations of the child, balancing the sociopolitical with the material while interrogating the array of affects and artifacts always in dialogue with the child. Working from a vibrant interdisciplinary stance — including biopolitics, psychoanalysis, racial capitalism, queer theory, Dyer weaves a fresh framework to read the child and, as centrally, to query child development and its attendant affects. Engaging a generative lens of arts and aesthetics — films, contemporary artists and other cultural workers— that provoke audiences to recognize the layered arrangements of power that both surround and mark the child, Dyer’s lyrically crafted book is essential reading for the emergent field of critical child studies and for all of us who struggle to build freer and more joyous futures for all. — Erica R. Meiners, author of For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State "The range of Dyer’s objects of study is as impressive as her command of contemporary critical theory, and her project promises to significantly enrich the field of child studies and beyond. Highly recommended."— ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Childhood’s Queer Intimacies and Affective Intensities 1 Queer Temporality in the Playroom: Ebony G. Patterson and Jonathon Hobin’s Aesthetics of Child Development 2 Art and the Refusal of Empathy in A Child’s View from Gaza 3 The Queer Remains of Childhood Trauma: Notes on A Little Life 4 Reparation for a Violent Boyhood in This is England Epilogue: The Contested Design of Children’s Sexuality Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores Mississippi Christians’ beliefs about homosexuality and gay and lesbian civil rights and whether having a gay or lesbian friend or family member influences those beliefs. Beliefs about homosexuality and gay and lesbian rights vary widely based on religious affiliation. Despite having gay or lesbian friends or family members, evangelical Protestants believe homosexuality is sinful and oppose gay and lesbian rights. Mainline Protestants are largely supportive of gay and lesbian rights and become more supportive after getting to know gay and lesbian people. Catholics describe a greater degree of uncertainty and a conditional acceptance of gay and lesbian rights; clear differences between conservative and liberal Catholics are evident. Overall, conservative Christians, both evangelical Protestants and conservative Catholics, hold a religious identity that overshadows their relationships with gay and lesbian friends or family. Conservative religion acts as a deterrent to the positive benefits of relationships with gay and lesbian people. Trade Review"In Conditionally Accepted Baker Rogers offers a textured analysis of perceptions of gay and lesbian citizens living in one of the most conservative parts of the country. A well-organized, engaging, and compelling investigation." -- John Bartkowski * University of Texas, author of The Promise Keepers: Servants, Soldiers, and Godly Men *"In this critical yet sympathetic analysis of religious intolerance, Baker Rogers listens carefully to anti-gay Christians in Mississippi. They offer strong evidence that close contact with lesbian and gay people is not enough to change deeply held anti-gay attitudes." -- Tina Fetner * McMaster University, author of How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism *"Recommended. " * Choice *"Based on rich interview data with 40 Christians in Mississippi, Conditionally Accepted presents an important argument that specific religious identity formations produce opposition to gays and lesbians....Conditionally Accepted provides an insightful contribution to sociological thinking about religious identity and sexuality." * Gender and Society *"The book is of particular value in the ways it explicates its geographical focus. Besides contextualizing gay and lesbian civil rights in a predominantly conservative religious context, the book also sensitizes the reader to develop a multicolor-perspective on the Christian South that goes beyond framing the region as only a place of Christian conservatism....The main message of the book is very clear: we must look more closely to the story of individual Mississippi Christians and how they come to their develop their attitudes towards gay men and lesbian women." * Politics, Religion, & Ideology *"Spirit in the sky: various faiths with queer-friendly aspects," by Brian Bromberger https://www.ebar.com/events/arts_events//296909/spirit_in_the_sky:_various_faiths_with_queer-friendly_aspects * Bay Area Reporter *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Religion and Homosexuality 1 God Said Love Thy Neighbor, Unless They're Gay 2 For the Bible (or My Pastor/Priest) Tells Me So: The Bible Homosexuality Part 2: Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights 3 Marriage = 1 Man + 1 Woman? Support and Opposition to Same Sex-Marriage 4 Do Children Need a Mom and Dad? The Debate over Same-Sex Marriage 5 All [Wo]men Are Created Equal, or Are They? The Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights Movement Part 3: Social Contact with Gay and Lesbian People 6 Some of My Best Friends Are Gay: The Influence of Social Contact Conclusion: When Religion Overshadows Relationships Appendix: Methodology Acknowledgements Notes References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThis book explores Mississippi Christians’ beliefs about homosexuality and gay and lesbian civil rights and whether having a gay or lesbian friend or family member influences those beliefs. Beliefs about homosexuality and gay and lesbian rights vary widely based on religious affiliation. Despite having gay or lesbian friends or family members, evangelical Protestants believe homosexuality is sinful and oppose gay and lesbian rights. Mainline Protestants are largely supportive of gay and lesbian rights and become more supportive after getting to know gay and lesbian people. Catholics describe a greater degree of uncertainty and a conditional acceptance of gay and lesbian rights; clear differences between conservative and liberal Catholics are evident. Overall, conservative Christians, both evangelical Protestants and conservative Catholics, hold a religious identity that overshadows their relationships with gay and lesbian friends or family. Conservative religion acts as a deterrent to the positive benefits of relationships with gay and lesbian people. Trade Review"In Conditionally Accepted Baker Rogers offers a textured analysis of perceptions of gay and lesbian citizens living in one of the most conservative parts of the country. A well-organized, engaging, and compelling investigation." -- John Bartkowski * University of Texas, author of The Promise Keepers: Servants, Soldiers, and Godly Men *"In this critical yet sympathetic analysis of religious intolerance, Baker Rogers listens carefully to anti-gay Christians in Mississippi. They offer strong evidence that close contact with lesbian and gay people is not enough to change deeply held anti-gay attitudes." -- Tina Fetner * McMaster University, author of How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay Activism *"Recommended. " * Choice *"Based on rich interview data with 40 Christians in Mississippi, Conditionally Accepted presents an important argument that specific religious identity formations produce opposition to gays and lesbians....Conditionally Accepted provides an insightful contribution to sociological thinking about religious identity and sexuality." * Gender and Society *"The book is of particular value in the ways it explicates its geographical focus. Besides contextualizing gay and lesbian civil rights in a predominantly conservative religious context, the book also sensitizes the reader to develop a multicolor-perspective on the Christian South that goes beyond framing the region as only a place of Christian conservatism....The main message of the book is very clear: we must look more closely to the story of individual Mississippi Christians and how they come to their develop their attitudes towards gay men and lesbian women." * Politics, Religion, & Ideology *"Spirit in the sky: various faiths with queer-friendly aspects," by Brian Bromberger https://www.ebar.com/events/arts_events//296909/spirit_in_the_sky:_various_faiths_with_queer-friendly_aspects * Bay Area Reporter *Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Religion and Homosexuality 1 God Said Love Thy Neighbor, Unless They're Gay 2 For the Bible (or My Pastor/Priest) Tells Me So: The Bible Homosexuality Part 2: Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights 3 Marriage = 1 Man + 1 Woman? Support and Opposition to Same Sex-Marriage 4 Do Children Need a Mom and Dad? The Debate over Same-Sex Marriage 5 All [Wo]men Are Created Equal, or Are They? The Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights Movement Part 3: Social Contact with Gay and Lesbian People 6 Some of My Best Friends Are Gay: The Influence of Social Contact Conclusion: When Religion Overshadows Relationships Appendix: Methodology Acknowledgements Notes References Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisTortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship, and Sex in Queer Mexico City is the first ethnography in English to focus primarily on women’s sexual and intimate cultures in Mexico. The book shows the transformation of intimacy in the lives of three generations of women in queer spaces in contemporary Mexico City, as their sexual citizenship changes, including references to same-sex marriage and anti-discrimination laws. The book shows how these individuals reconfigure relationships through marriage, polyamory, friendship, and sex. Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy suggests that “new” intimate cartographies are emerging in Mexico City, ultimately redefining relationships, gender, and mexicanidad. Building on ethnographic data collected over the past decade, including forty-five in-depth interviews with women between the ages of twenty-two and sixty-five participating in LGBT spaces, Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy shows how lesbian women (mainly cis, but some trans) negotiate friendship, same-sex marriage, polyamory, and sexual practices, reinventing love, eroticism, friendship, and ultimately the social organization of Latin American societies.Trade Review“Well researched, carefully written, and highly original, Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy is a transformative ethnographic exploration of women’s sexuality in Mexico City. This truly pioneering, sorely needed book privileges social relations above static conceptions of identity, highlighting lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, and polyamorous experiences in el ambiente. It is a key contribution to queer, women’s, and Latin American studies.” -- Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes * author of Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance *"This rich and thoroughly captivating ethnography challenges US centered discourse on sexual cultures to explore how diverse sexual and affective practices such as polyamory, non-monogamy, casual hook-ups, and queer domesticity have been imagined and lived among different generations of queer Latinas in Mexico City. Through sustained interviews that are by turn candid and illuminating, humorous and tender, Russo Garrido’s text highlights how radical forms of friendship, love, community, and intimacy might function as world making practices of self and collective care." -- Juana María Rodríguez * author of Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings *"An in-depth exploration into the changes in women’s sexualities in Latinx cultures, the volume examines marriage, polyamory, queerness, gender, love and friendship." * Ms. Magazine *Table of ContentsContents Introduction, Intimate Contestations: Love, Friendship and Sex in Queer Mexico City 1 Polyamory, Open Relationships y Otros Amoresde Familia 2 On Friendship and the Production of Lesbiana Worlds 3 Sex- Stretching the Body: A New Erotic Cartography 4 Counter-Mapping el Ambiente in Queer Times and Spaces 5 Epilogue Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Miss America pageant has been held in Atlantic City for the past hundred years, helping to promote the city as a tourist destination. But just a few streets away, the city hosts a smaller event that, in its own way, is equally vital to the local community: the Miss’d America drag pageant. Drag Queens and Beauty Queens presents a vivid ethnography of the Miss’d America pageant and the gay neighborhood from which it emerged in the early 1990s as a moment of campy celebration in the midst of the AIDS crisis. It examines how the pageant strengthened community bonds and activism, as well as how it has changed now that Rupaul’s Drag Race has brought many of its practices into the cultural mainstream. Comparing the Miss’d America pageant with its glitzy cisgender big sister, anthropologist Laurie Greene discovers how the two pageants have influenced each other in unexpected ways. Drag Queens and Beauty Queens deepens our understanding of how femininity is performed at pageants, exploring the various ways that both the Miss’d America and Miss America pageants have negotiated between embracing and critiquing traditional gender roles. Ultimately, it celebrates the rich tradition of drag performance and the community it engenders.Trade Review"An unprecedented look at drag culture and its history in Atlantic City. A must-read for queens and their fans!"— Sapphira Cristal, Miss'd American 2020 "The subject matter is fascinating."— Gay & Lesbian Review "I have long wondered how the Miss America pageant maintains a conservative appeal while ignoring the known influence and involvement by the gay community. If you've ever known or loved Miss America, you need this history lesson."— Erin O'Flaherty, Miss Missouri 2016, first openly lesbian Miss America contestant "Through a highly entertaining, insightful, and informative combination of history, ethnography, and gender studies, Greene uncovers the long-standing influence that Atlantic City's LGBTQ+ community has had on the Miss America Pageant."— Rusty Barrett, author of From Drag Queens to Leathermen: Language, Gender, and Gay Male Subcultures "After 30 years in the drag business, I was surprised and elated to learn so much about drag/LGBTQ+ history in Atlantic City. The in-depth exploration of how Miss America and Miss’d America were connected and disconnected is fascinating."— Sherry Vine, Drag Legend "Greene’s prose is delightful and imaginative, the work standing out as both an illustration of the horrors of hegemonic oppression and the beauty of an adaptable subculture. Drag Queens and Beauty Queens adds to the growing body of work that provides insight into the development and practice of gender norms and their influence on the tapestry of national identity formation, maintenance, and adaptation." — Gender & Society "All of this is told by Greene through attentive ethnographic fieldwork, with transcript excerpts often conveying not just the words but the animated community conversations from which she draws. She makes productive use of sources like Facebook pages dedicated to Atlantic City memories, which can sometimes offer richer LGBTQ archives than more recognized repositories. Ultimately, Drag Queens and Beauty Queens is not as expansively or densely theorized as, say, Marlon Bailey’s landmark ethnography of the Detroit ballroom scene, Butch Queens Up in Pumps, but its trade-off is greater accessibility. This would make a productive text in undergraduate courses, where the Miss/Miss’d America comparative analysis would surely spark discussion. Greene’s ethical commitment to producing a readable text for the drag community itself is also to be commended. With this book, Laurie Greene has expanded the canon of New Jersey LGBTQ history and offered a valuable model of community-based scholarship."— NJ StudiesTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Doing AC Chapter 1: Pageants and Pageantry Chapter 2: Atlantic City, Drag Culture, and a Community of Practice Chapter 3: New York Avenue: Where the Party Began Chapter 4: Camp and The Queering of Miss America Chapter 5: Show Us your Shoes, Not your Midriffs Conclusion: Drag Queens and Beauty Queens Appendix I: Winners of the Miss’d America Pageant Appendix II: Drag Queens Interviewed in Fieldnotes With Dates Appendix III: Original Miss’d America Theme Song Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHonorable Mention, Isis Duarte Book Prize (Latin American Studies Association) Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic is an exploration of the ways that lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer persons exercise power in a Catholic Hispanic heteropatriarchal nation-state, namely the Dominican Republic. Lara presents the specific strategies employed by LGBTQ community leaders in the Dominican Republic in their struggle for subjectivity, recognition, and rights. Drawing on ethnographic encounters, film and video, and interviews, LGBTQ community leaders teach readers about streetwalking, confrontación, flipping the script, cuentos, and the use of strategic universalisms in the exercise of power and agency. Rooted in Maria Lugones's theorization of streetwalker strategies and Audre Lorde's theorization of silence and action, this text re-imagines the exercise and locus of power in examples provided by the living, thriving LGBTQ community of the Dominican Republic.Trade Review"New Books Network: New Books in Anthropology" interview with Ana-Maurine Lara— New Books Network: New Books in Anthropology Pride Month June 2021 round-up— Bookshop.org "Ana-Maurine Lara offers us a meaningful invitation to consider the multifaceted potentials of streetwalking, and to witness how Dominican LGBTQ activists make resistencia that reorders our understanding of the queer politics of the everyday. Beautifully written and cogently argued, Streetwalking is an important contribution to queer of color critique."— C. Riley Snorton, author of Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity "Streetwalking is the first book to document and analyze LGBTQ activism, theorizing, and life-making in the Dominican Republic. As such, it is inherently groundbreaking and innovative. But more than being the first, it is also a finely argued, nuanced understanding of the context—national, regional, and historical—in which this community asserts its contestatory vision of rights, citizenship, morality, humanity and collectivism."— Ginetta Candelario, author of Black behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty ShopsTable of ContentsContents Introduction: Where the Locas Are Section I: Street Smarts Chapter 1: Christian Coloniality Chapter 2: Sexual Terror Section II: Streetwalking Chapter 3: Confrontación Chapter 4: Flipping the Script Chapter 5: Cuentos Conclusion: On Silence Transformed Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisErotic Cartographies uses subjective mapping, a participatory data collection technique, to demonstrate how Trinidadian same-sex-loving women use their gender performance, erotic autonomy, and space-making practices to reinforce and resist colonial ascriptions on subject bodies. The women strategically embody their sexual identities to challenge imposed subject categories and to contest their invisibility and exclusion from discourses of belonging. Erotic Cartographies refers to the processes of mapping territories of self-knowing and self-expression, both cognitively in the imagination and on paper during the mapping exercise, exploring how meaning is given to space, and how it is transformed. Using the women’s quotes and maps, the book focuses on the false binary of public-private, the practices of home and family, and religious nationalism and spiritual self-seeking, to demonstrate the women’s challenges to the structural, symbolic, and interpersonal violence of colonial discourses and practices related to gender, knowledge, and power in Trinidadian society.Trade Review"Erotic Cartographies is a significant and a very welcome contribution to the small but growing body of scholarship on same-sex loving women in the Caribbean. Through subjective maps, Ghisyawan teases out Trinidadian women’s articulations of identity, passion, friendship, and family, as well as how they resist homophobia and find spaces of safety and belonging. It is a finely crafted study that is theoretically and methodologically rich, clearly produced with much care and respect. A vital text in Queer, Caribbean and decolonial studies." -- Kamala Kempadoo * author of Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Hu *"Ghisyawan makes an outstanding contribution to Caribbean knowledge production in this profound and insightful study of Caribbean sexuality and same-sex desire. Through a much-needed focus on same-sex-loving women and space-making practices, she offers a unique decolonial methodology through subjective mapping and intersectional feminist praxis that demonstrates complex understandings of safety, visibility, place, identity, and queerness. Erotic Cartographies locates and affirms queer Caribbean belonging and spaces by examining lived experiences, creativity, spirituality, and erotic subjectivities that are fiercely and powerfully defiant." -- Angelique V. Nixon * author of Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora, and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture *"For Ghisyawan, the erotic is a kind of self-knowing that allows us to reshape space into safe havens, shifting and eliminating the boundaries of what it means to transgress, while also intuiting unsafe spaces and knowing the kinds of performances that become necessary around the potential hostilities of family members, friends, coworkers, and strangers. Ultimately, Erotic Cartographies challenges us to consider the role the erotic plays in our lives as what moves us toward decolonial spaces that are more than just safe enough. By allowing ourselves to inhabit our erotic selves more fully, we also allow ourselves to map the world anew." -- Jessica Díaz Rodríguez * Sx Salon *Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsNote on Trinidadian LanguageProloguePart I: Introduction and Methodology1 Introduction: Erotic Cartographies and the Decolonial2 Subjective Mapping: Queer Decolonial MethodologyPart II: Confronting Binaries: Space, Gender, and Social Class3 Being in Public: Queer Transnational Subjectivities4 Contesting “Home”: Unsettling Public-Private BoundariesPart III: State, Religion, and Personhood5 Religious Nationalism: Its Roots and Fruit6 “Dealing Up with the Spirit”: Spiritual Knowledge and Erotic Fulfillment7 ConclusionAppendix 1. Analytics Used for MapsAppendix 2. Bio-Data of Research ParticipantsAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisShortlisted for Lesbian Memoir/Biography Lammy Award Rendered in bronze, covered in white lacquer, two women sit together on a park bench in Greenwich Village. One of the women touches the thigh of her partner as they gaze into each other’s eyes. The two women are part of George Segal’s iconic sculpture “Gay Liberation,” but these powerful symbols were modeled on real people: Leslie Cohen and her partner (now wife) Beth Suskin. In this evocative memoir, Cohen tells the story of a love that has lasted for over fifty years. Transporting the reader to the pivotal time when brave gay women and men carved out spaces where they could live and love freely, she recounts both her personal struggles and the accomplishments she achieved as part of New York’s gay and feminist communities. Foremost among these was her 1976 cofounding of the groundbreaking women’s nightclub Sahara, which played host to such luminaries as Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Pat Benatar, Ntozake Shange, Rita Mae Brown, Adrienne Rich, Patti Smith, Bella Abzug, and Jane Fonda. The Audacity of a Kiss is a moving and inspiring tale of how love, art, and solidarity can overcome oppression.Trade Review"I remember Sahara as a spring in the desert of the time!" -- Gloria Steinem"I love Leslie’s book. It is beautifully written. The detail she gives is remarkable both about her relationship with Beth, the beginning of Sahara where I spent many an amazing evening, and even her days in Siena. Leslie brings it all back to life. Reading this book, I was brought back to the Upper East Side in the ‘70s. Leslie had a magnetic power, and it suffuses the pages of this book." -- Brenda Feigen * feminist activist, film producer, attorney, cofounder of Ms. Magazine *"Leslie’s tribute to Sahara is testimony to the sanctuary we found in being together, feeling safe and enthralled by a sense of freedom. Whether you found that in The Duchess, Bonnie and Clyde’s or The Cubbyhole,this is your invitation to revisit. Little compared with the sense of anticipation you felt walking through the door and into the glances, stares or smiles of women and that the next few hours held countless possibilities." -- Ginny Apuzzo * gay rights and AIDS activist; former executive director of the National LGBTQ Task Force *"I am thrilled to share a story of one of the greatest loves ever known, a story of bravery to dream of and then create a safe haven for like-minded individuals who wanted a place of their own. I can remember the panic that set in the first time I went to Sahara. On tour, I was new to the excitement of riding in a limo, seeing the reaction of people dancing to my music, then suddenly being told, 'This club is different.' I was unaware of what I was about to experience. 'This is a woman’s club! Wink. Wink.' There was fear, anxiety, and laughter. I didn’t know what to think, but in I went! Warmth, joy, happiness, and excitement greeted me at the door. My Dear Friends, still all these years later, that same warmth, joy, happiness, and excitement greets me each time we see each other. I cherish the times I spent, the lifelong friends, the celebrations, and the memories I will always hold so dear. Thank you, Leslie, for sharing your incredible story!" -- Linda Clifford * R&B and disco singer *" Sahara was the only female place that I felt comfortable as I identified with the atmosphere and the women who patronized it—fashionable, glamorous, and happy. I thank Leslie Cohen for her imagination and design for her creation. The only woman’s club that I continue to hold in my memory." -- Patricia Field * Emmy Award-winning costume designer, stylist and fashion designer *"Leslie Cohen’s writing is bold, beautiful and brutally honest. She writes as she has lived, without fear or hesitation. I find my own story woven (like so many others...) through the fabric of late nights at Sahara and the blinding sunlight of 6:00 am on the upper East side. Somehow we all survived. I am honored to be part of this history." -- Brooke Kennedy * Emmy Award nominated television producer and director *"In The Audacity of a Kiss, Leslie Cohen is telling a neglected story that we all need to hear. Her club Sahara was a touchstone of feminist and LGBT history, and we're long overdue for a (re-)visit." -- Michael Schiavi * Professor of English, New York Institute of Technology, and author of Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo *"Seeing Beth and Leslie’s love at a young age had a profound influence on me. I remember going to their beautiful house with my mom and feeling their love in their home. It definitely shaped me at a young age as to what I could have for myself as an adult." -- Rachel Robinson * former MTV star of Road Rules and The Challenge and founder of @rachelfitness *"I promise you will not put down this book. Leslie Cohen has the gift of being a wonderful writer with the added blessing of having a profoundly significant personal story to tell. It's one of those books whose time has come." -- Caroline Myss * author of Intimate Conversations with the Divine and Anatomy of the Spirit *"Equality Pioneer to Publish Memoir" by Brian Kantz * SUNY Buffalo State *"Anger, Love, and Memory," and Leslie Cohen * Gay & Lesbian Review *"The Audacity of a Kiss is interesting and relatable. Well worth the time spent." * Out In Print Blog *"Sealed with a kiss: Leslie Cohen discusses lesbian bars and becoming 'art'" by Gregg Shapiro * Bay Area Reporter *"Cohen’s prose is honest and beautiful and many of us will find ourselves in her words. I love that past histories are finally being published and that these wonderful stories are being recorded forever. We can never allow our past to be forgotten and it is because of people like Leslie Cohen that we are able to live as we do today. The strongest message for me here is to once again see that liberation comes from both within and without. Cohen’s prose is honest and beautiful and many of us will find ourselves in her words. I love that past histories are finally being published and that these wonderful stories are being recorded forever. We can never allow our past to be forgotten and it is because of people like Leslie Cohen that we are able to live as we do today. The strongest message for me here is to once again see that liberation comes from both within and without." * Reviews by Amos Lassen *Leslie Cohen Talks Memoir “The Audacity Of A Kiss” (AUDIO) * Outtake Voices podcast *Excerpt from The Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art & Liberation by Leslie Cohen * Lesbian.com *"The Audacity of a Kiss is very much a love story, but it is also a tale of a woman who was not by nature an activist as she found her way in the world of political and social change of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Cohen’s memoir is about how few choices there were for women like her when she was coming of age as a young lesbian in the ‘50s." * Philadelphia Gay News *Addresses Project interview with Leslie Cohan * Addresses Project *Lesbian News cover story with Leslie Cohen * Lesbian News *"Sealed with a Kiss: An Interview with Leslie Cohen" * South Florida Gay News *The Audacity of a Kiss excerpt in San Francisco Bay Times * San Francisco Bay Times *Interview with Leslie Cohen * Epochalips *"Pandemic Pivot: Major museum digital exhibit for LGBT History Month," by J.W. Arnold * Out In New Jersey *"Out East End: Leslie Cohen, Author of ‘The Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art & Liberation’" by Angela LaGreca * Dan's Papers *"Where the 'L' are the Women?" podcast interview with Leslie Cohen * "Where the 'L' are the Women?" podcast *"This fast-moving memoir touches on many themes, including the proverbial trio of 'sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.'" * The Gay & Lesbian Review *"Indeed, The Audacity of a Kiss is an easy tale. It’s comfortable, like a crackling fireplace and a glass of wine on a cushy sofa. There are accomplishments here, told so that you really share the pride in them. Readers are shown the struggle that Cohen had, too, but experiences are well-framed by explanations of the times in which they occurred, with nothing overly dramatic – just the unabashed truth, and more warmth. Opening this book, in a way, then, is like accepting an invitation to own the recliner for an evening, and you won’t want anything else." * Washington Blade *"?The Brave Life of Lesbian Trailblazer Leslie Cohen," by Ashley-Anna A. * Gay City News *"I remember Sahara as a spring in the desert of the time!" -- Gloria Steinem"I love Leslie’s book. It is beautifully written. The detail she gives is remarkable both about her relationship with Beth, the beginning of Sahara where I spent many an amazing evening, and even her days in Siena. Leslie brings it all back to life. Reading this book, I was brought back to the Upper East Side in the ‘70s. Leslie had a magnetic power, and it suffuses the pages of this book." -- Brenda Feigen * feminist activist, film producer, attorney, cofounder of Ms. Magazine *"Leslie’s tribute to Sahara is testimony to the sanctuary we found in being together, feeling safe and enthralled by a sense of freedom. Whether you found that in The Duchess, Bonnie and Clyde’s or The Cubbyhole,this is your invitation to revisit. Little compared with the sense of anticipation you felt walking through the door and into the glances, stares or smiles of women and that the next few hours held countless possibilities." -- Ginny Apuzzo * gay rights and AIDS activist; former executive director of the National LGBTQ Task Force *"I am thrilled to share a story of one of the greatest loves ever known, a story of bravery to dream of and then create a safe haven for like-minded individuals who wanted a place of their own. I can remember the panic that set in the first time I went to Sahara. On tour, I was new to the excitement of riding in a limo, seeing the reaction of people dancing to my music, then suddenly being told, 'This club is different.' I was unaware of what I was about to experience. 'This is a woman’s club! Wink. Wink.' There was fear, anxiety, and laughter. I didn’t know what to think, but in I went! Warmth, joy, happiness, and excitement greeted me at the door. My Dear Friends, still all these years later, that same warmth, joy, happiness, and excitement greets me each time we see each other. I cherish the times I spent, the lifelong friends, the celebrations, and the memories I will always hold so dear. Thank you, Leslie, for sharing your incredible story!" -- Linda Clifford * R&B and disco singer *" Sahara was the only female place that I felt comfortable as I identified with the atmosphere and the women who patronized it—fashionable, glamorous, and happy. I thank Leslie Cohen for her imagination and design for her creation. The only woman’s club that I continue to hold in my memory." -- Patricia Field * Emmy Award-winning costume designer, stylist and fashion designer *"Leslie Cohen’s writing is bold, beautiful and brutally honest. She writes as she has lived, without fear or hesitation. I find my own story woven (like so many others...) through the fabric of late nights at Sahara and the blinding sunlight of 6:00 am on the upper East side. Somehow we all survived. I am honored to be part of this history." -- Brooke Kennedy * Emmy Award nominated television producer and director *"In The Audacity of a Kiss, Leslie Cohen is telling a neglected story that we all need to hear. Her club Sahara was a touchstone of feminist and LGBT history, and we're long overdue for a (re-)visit." -- Michael Schiavi * Professor of English, New York Institute of Technology, and author of Celluloid Activist: The Life a *"Seeing Beth and Leslie’s love at a young age had a profound influence on me. I remember going to their beautiful house with my mom and feeling their love in their home. It definitely shaped me at a young age as to what I could have for myself as an adult." -- Rachel Robinson * former MTV star of Road Rules and The Challenge and founder of @rachelfitness *"I promise you will not put down this book. Leslie Cohen has the gift of being a wonderful writer with the added blessing of having a profoundly significant personal story to tell. It's one of those books whose time has come." -- Caroline Myss * author of Intimate Conversations with the Divine and Anatomy of the Spirit *"Equality Pioneer to Publish Memoir" by Brian Kantz * SUNY Buffalo State *"Anger, Love, and Memory," and Leslie Cohen * Gay & Lesbian Review *"The Audacity of a Kiss is interesting and relatable. Well worth the time spent." * Out In Print Blog *"Sealed with a kiss: Leslie Cohen discusses lesbian bars and becoming 'art'" by Gregg Shapiro * Bay Area Reporter *"Cohen’s prose is honest and beautiful and many of us will find ourselves in her words. I love that past histories are finally being published and that these wonderful stories are being recorded forever. We can never allow our past to be forgotten and it is because of people like Leslie Cohen that we are able to live as we do today. The strongest message for me here is to once again see that liberation comes from both within and without. Cohen’s prose is honest and beautiful and many of us will find ourselves in her words. I love that past histories are finally being published and that these wonderful stories are being recorded forever. We can never allow our past to be forgotten and it is because of people like Leslie Cohen that we are able to live as we do today. The strongest message for me here is to once again see that liberation comes from both within and without." * Reviews by Amos Lassen *Leslie Cohen Talks Memoir “The Audacity Of A Kiss” (AUDIO) * Outtake Voices podcast *Excerpt from The Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art Liberation by Leslie Cohen * Lesbian.com *"The Audacity of a Kiss is very much a love story, but it is also a tale of a woman who was not by nature an activist as she found her way in the world of political and social change of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Cohen’s memoir is about how few choices there were for women like her when she was coming of age as a young lesbian in the ‘50s." * Philadelphia Gay News *Addresses Project interview with Leslie Cohan * Addresses Project *Lesbian News cover story with Leslie Cohen * Lesbian News *"Sealed with a Kiss: An Interview with Leslie Cohen" * South Florida Gay News *The Audacity of a Kiss excerpt in San Francisco Bay Times * San Francisco Bay Times *Interview with Leslie Cohen * Epochalips *"Pandemic Pivot: Major museum digital exhibit for LGBT History Month," by J.W. Arnold * Out In New Jersey *"Out East End: Leslie Cohen, Author of ‘The Audacity of a Kiss: Love, Art Liberation’" by Angela LaGreca * Dan's Papers *"Where the 'L' are the Women?" podcast interview with Leslie Cohen * "Where the 'L' are the Women?" podcast *"This fast-moving memoir touches on many themes, including the proverbial trio of 'sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll.'" * The Gay & Lesbian Review *"Indeed, The Audacity of a Kiss is an easy tale. It’s comfortable, like a crackling fireplace and a glass of wine on a cushy sofa. There are accomplishments here, told so that you really share the pride in them. Readers are shown the struggle that Cohen had, too, but experiences are well-framed by explanations of the times in which they occurred, with nothing overly dramatic – just the unabashed truth, and more warmth. Opening this book, in a way, then, is like accepting an invitation to own the recliner for an evening, and you won’t want anything else." * Washington Blade *"The Brave Life of Lesbian Trailblazer Leslie Cohen," by Ashley-Anna A. * Gay City News *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Author’s Note Prologue Part I: Youth 1. Secrets and Dreams 2. Confetti on New Year’s Eve 3. Touching God 4. Awakening 5. Crawling out of Darkness 6. Acceptance Part II: Freedom Calling 7. Les Femmes 8. Water in the Desert 9. Jagged, Dirty Thoughts 10. An Antidote to Boredom 11. Permission 12. Virginia Slims Part III: A Posse of Outsiders 13. Lone Riders 14. Style Gets Used Up 15. Bashert: Fate, Meant to Be 16. After the Desert Postscript Gay Liberation Timeline Acknowledgments Notes

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Book SynopsisQueer people may not have invented sex, but queers have long been pioneers in imagining new ways to have it. Yet their voices have been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. What can queer people learn from the #MeToo conversation? And what can queer communities teach the rest of the world about ethical sex? This provocative book brings together academics, activists, artists, and sex workers to tackle challenging questions about sex, power, consent, and harm. While responding to the need for sex to be consensual and mutually pleasurable, these chapter authors resist the heteronormative assumptions, class norms, and racial privilege underlying much #MeToo discourse. The essays reveal the tools that queer communities themselves have developed to practice ethical sex—from the sex worker negotiating with her client to the gay man having anonymous sex in the back room. At the same time, they explore how queer communities might better prevent and respond to sexual violence without recourse to a police force that is frequently racist, homophobic, and transphobic. Telling a queerer side of the #MeToo story, Unsafe Words dares to challenge dogmatic assumptions about sex and consent while developing tools and language to promote more ethical and more pleasurable sex for everyone.Trade Review"Reading Unsafe Words and the ways the various essays reckon with the #MeToo movement filled a need that had been lacking, a return to the hashtag and a pulling apart of what its focus had become. The essays in this book take a deep-dive into multiple facets of consent, grapple with white supremacy and mass incarceration and carceral attitudes within the queer community, talk about repair after harm, and reflect on situations where it’s unclear whether or how or to whom harm occurred. I found the book challenging in the best ways at times." * Autostraddle *"With this dazzling collection of meditations and provocations from leading scholars in the field of sexuality studies, Unsafe Words offers something we desperately need: a place to ask the queer questions about consent that dare not speak their names. Can consent be queered? What happens when queer and feminist sexual politics clash over questions of consent? How does the prevailing consent paradigm perpetuate the harms of the criminal legal system and thwart more just possibilities for redress? This is a must-read for both activists and scholars of sexual ethics alike." -- Cati Connell * author of A Few Good Gays: The Gendered Compromises behind Military Inclusion *"Unsafe Words provides many urgently needed, generative, and useful ways to think about sexual ethics beyond the punitive, and lets the kinds of people whose sex lives were never destigmatized (or even decriminalized) lead readers in asking better questions." -- Steven W. Thrasher * Anarchist Review of Books *Table of Contents Series Foreword by E. G. Crichton and Jeffrey Escoffier Introduction Shantel Gabrieal Buggs and Trevor Hoppe Part 1: Queering Consent 1. Sex Workers Are Experts on Sexual Consent Angela Jones 2. Consent in the Dark Alexander Cheves 3. Lost in the Dark—Or How I Learned to Queer Consent Trevor Hoppe 4. The Straight Rules Don’t Apply: Lesbian Sexual Ethics Jane Ward 5. Momentos de consentimiento: Consent in Lesbian Relationships in Mexico City Gloria González-López and Anahi Russo Garrido 6. Black Femmedom as Violence and Resistance Mistress Velvet 7. Consent through My Lens: A Photo Essay Don (D. S.) Trumbull Part 2: Responding to Sexual Harm 8. Before Consent, after Harm Blu Buchanan 9. Rejecting the (Black Fat) Body as Invitation Shantel Gabrieal Buggs 10. My Firsts: On Gaysian Sexual Ethics James McMaster 11. Was I a Teenage Sexual Predator? Mark S. King 12. (Trans)forming #MeToo: On Freedom for the “Unbelievable” Survivors of Gender Violence V. Jo Hsu 13. “Oppression Was at My Doorstep from Birth”: A Conversation on Prison Abolition Dominique Morgan and Trevor Hoppe Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisQueer people may not have invented sex, but queers have long been pioneers in imagining new ways to have it. Yet their voices have been largely absent from the #MeToo conversation. What can queer people learn from the #MeToo conversation? And what can queer communities teach the rest of the world about ethical sex? This provocative book brings together academics, activists, artists, and sex workers to tackle challenging questions about sex, power, consent, and harm. While responding to the need for sex to be consensual and mutually pleasurable, these chapter authors resist the heteronormative assumptions, class norms, and racial privilege underlying much #MeToo discourse. The essays reveal the tools that queer communities themselves have developed to practice ethical sex—from the sex worker negotiating with her client to the gay man having anonymous sex in the back room. At the same time, they explore how queer communities might better prevent and respond to sexual violence without recourse to a police force that is frequently racist, homophobic, and transphobic. Telling a queerer side of the #MeToo story, Unsafe Words dares to challenge dogmatic assumptions about sex and consent while developing tools and language to promote more ethical and more pleasurable sex for everyone.Trade Review"Reading Unsafe Words and the ways the various essays reckon with the #MeToo movement filled a need that had been lacking, a return to the hashtag and a pulling apart of what its focus had become. The essays in this book take a deep-dive into multiple facets of consent, grapple with white supremacy and mass incarceration and carceral attitudes within the queer community, talk about repair after harm, and reflect on situations where it’s unclear whether or how or to whom harm occurred. I found the book challenging in the best ways at times." * Autostraddle *"With this dazzling collection of meditations and provocations from leading scholars in the field of sexuality studies, Unsafe Words offers something we desperately need: a place to ask the queer questions about consent that dare not speak their names. Can consent be queered? What happens when queer and feminist sexual politics clash over questions of consent? How does the prevailing consent paradigm perpetuate the harms of the criminal legal system and thwart more just possibilities for redress? This is a must-read for both activists and scholars of sexual ethics alike." -- Cati Connell * author of A Few Good Gays: The Gendered Compromises behind Military Inclusion *"Unsafe Words provides many urgently needed, generative, and useful ways to think about sexual ethics beyond the punitive, and lets the kinds of people whose sex lives were never destigmatized (or even decriminalized) lead readers in asking better questions." -- Steven W. Thrasher * Anarchist Review of Books *Table of Contents Series Foreword by E. G. Crichton and Jeffrey Escoffier Introduction Shantel Gabrieal Buggs and Trevor Hoppe Part 1: Queering Consent 1. Sex Workers Are Experts on Sexual Consent Angela Jones 2. Consent in the Dark Alexander Cheves 3. Lost in the Dark—Or How I Learned to Queer Consent Trevor Hoppe 4. The Straight Rules Don’t Apply: Lesbian Sexual Ethics Jane Ward 5. Momentos de consentimiento: Consent in Lesbian Relationships in Mexico City Gloria González-López and Anahi Russo Garrido 6. Black Femmedom as Violence and Resistance Mistress Velvet 7. Consent through My Lens: A Photo Essay Don (D. S.) Trumbull Part 2: Responding to Sexual Harm 8. Before Consent, after Harm Blu Buchanan 9. Rejecting the (Black Fat) Body as Invitation Shantel Gabrieal Buggs 10. My Firsts: On Gaysian Sexual Ethics James McMaster 11. Was I a Teenage Sexual Predator? Mark S. King 12. (Trans)forming #MeToo: On Freedom for the “Unbelievable” Survivors of Gender Violence V. Jo Hsu 13. “Oppression Was at My Doorstep from Birth”: A Conversation on Prison Abolition Dominique Morgan and Trevor Hoppe Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in northwest China, Casey James Miller offers a novel, compelling, and intimately personal perspective on Chinese queer culture and activism. In Inside the Circle: Queer Culture and Activism in Northwest China, Miller tells the stories of two courageous and dedicated groups of queer activists in the city of Xi’an: a grassroots gay men’s HIV/AIDS organization called Tong’ai and a lesbian women’s group named UNITE. Taking inspiration from “the circle,” a term used to imagine local, national, and global queer communities, Miller shows how everyday people in northwest China are taking part in queer culture and activism while also striving to lead traditionally moral lives in a rapidly changing society. The queer stories in this book broaden our understandings of gender and sexuality in contemporary China and show how taking global queer diversity seriously requires us to de-center Western cultural values, historical experiences, and theoretical perspectives.Trade Review"There are many meaningful contributions throughout Inside the Circle, from its central findings to its smaller observations. The discussion of romantic/passionate versus companionate/familial love; the inclusion of Buddhist faith perspectives that are still rare in studies of queer China; the compassionate and critical analysis of how an organization grew, deteriorated, and was rebirthed/reimagined– these and more will stick with me long after reading this work." -- Amy Brainer * author of Queer Kinship and Family Change in Taiwan *"Inside the Circle challenges understandings of queer personhood in China. Tracing the struggles of queer activists in northwest China to reconcile their sexual identities with their deeply held beliefs about what it means to be a moral person, Miller convinces the reader with his rich ethnography that in postsocialist China, queer activism from the margins challenges reductive ideas about homonormativity, expands the public sphere without directly opposing state power, and helps us to imagine new forms of transnational solidarity." -- Lisa Rofel * author of Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture *Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables 1 Introduction: Queer Stories, Chinese Stories 2 The View from Inside the Circle: Queer Gender and Sexuality in Northwest China 3 “Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots”: Queer Love, Kinship, and Personhood 4 “Living in the Gray Zone”: Queer Activism and Civil Society 5 “Dying for Money”: Conflict and Competition among Queer Men’s NGOs 6 From Rainbow Flags to Mr. Gay World: Transnational Queer Culture and Activism Conclusion List of Names Glossary of Chinese Characters Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn this stirring memoir by a member of the first generation of LGBTQ+ activists in Italy, Porpora Marcasciano tells her story and shares the struggles and accomplishments of her fellow activists who achieved so much in the 1970s yet suffered devastating losses during the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s. AntoloGaia offers an insider’s look at the beginnings of the gay liberation movement in Italy and reveals how it was intimately intertwined with other forms of left-wing activism. At the same time, it powerfully conveys the queer joy of a young person from a small village first encountering the vibrant sexual minority communities of Naples, Bologna, and Rome. As Marcasciano starts to embrace her trans identity, she meets the famous anthropologist Pino Simonelli, who introduces her to Naples’s unique femminielli subculture and gives her the name Porporino, which she later shortens to Porpora. In keeping with this story of gender, sexual, and political discovery, AntoloGaia is the first piece of Italian life-writing to use gender-neutral and mixed-gender language. Trade Review"Porpora Marcasciano says of this electrifying memoir that, if she could, she would have written it in verse to better capture the wild anarchic energy of the world that fueled her activism. No need. Her life story is poetry enough. What a gift to English speakers for her story to find us now, when we need the inspiration of as much wild anarchic energy as possible." -- Susan Stryker * author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today's Revolution *"A fascinating look into Italy's radical queer and trans cultures and their fraught relationship with wider left-wing politics, Marcasciano's AntoloGaia is just as much a guide to how to live one's life with courage, conviction, and creativity." -- Juliet Jacques * author of Trans: A Memoir *"This is a book of exploration—of gender, of one’s life, of things one has dared to dream. Like the people we meet, the stories Porpora Marcasciano tells are cradled in a radical trans love, and isn't that one of the best kinds of love? As you read, you too will be cradled and never abandoned." -- Marquis Bey * author of Black Trans Feminism *"This trans memoir by Porpora Marcasciano, someone who felt born into the wrong world, could not come at a better time. Sexual rights for minorities have been on the map since humans have shared their feelings about being in the world, and what a fitting opportunity that a trans story from 1970s Italy has come to light in this beautiful translation." -- Bernadette Wegenstein * coeditor of Radical Equalities and Global Feminist Filmmaking: An Anthology *"Marcasciano's life is a valuable part of trans history, and her account of the queer movement in Italy during the chaotic 1970s is eye-opening." -- Diana Goetsch * author of This Body I Wore: A Memoir *Table of ContentsForeword: "Giving Voice to the Italian Trans Community," Sara Galli and Mohammad Jamali Translator's Note, Francesco Pascuzzi and Sandra Waters Preface to the Italian edition: "The Unbearable Lightness of Gender in History and Biography," Laura Schettini Chapter One Le début (1973–1976) Somewhere in the West Traces of Dreams The Source of Consciousness Coming Out It Happened Trip Other Dimensions Changing the World The Underground Technical Rehearsals of Resistance The Best of Youth Rebel Music Exodus, Displacement, Transition EscapeChapter Two 1977: Dreaming and Utopia And 1977 Exploded! The First Lesbian We Want Everything! Alice in the City, Transversalism, Situationism, Fantasy Strawberries and Blood Between Class and Gender Consciousness Nomadic Tribes The Crush Continuous The Biggest Piazza Was Too Small The Transvestite Cries Out for Revenge in the Presence of the Phallus Porporino La dolce vita Lud With the Faguettes or With the Chavs Being Overwhelmed Flora and Fauna Good Morning, Night The First of May Distress and Self-Awareness Living in a Dream and Not Dreaming about LivingChapter Three Extravagance (1978–1982) Zanza Valentina Sanna Cortese Narciso The Festival of Poets at Castelporziano Capo Rizzuto and Gay Camping Gay Activism and Its First Conference Mario Mieli Royal Family and Self-Defense Techniques Monte Caprino Extravaganza Pisa Desiring Bologna and the Grand Duchy of Pistoia Lesbians and/or Feminists Punk The '80s Began Valerie Theater 1981 and the First Gay New Year Trans Manifesto for 164 Gay Occupations Beaches The CasseroChapter Four Transition, Epic Passage (1983...) Then Night Came! The Gay Plague Blows to the Heart Author Acknowledgments Appendices Timelines Key Words Porpora's Publications Notes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisIn the repressive context of East European Communist regimes, how did young girls and boys come to realize their sexuality? What did they do with that self-awareness--and later on, as adults, what strategies did they employ in their dealings with the regime? Queer Encounters with Communist Power answers these questions as it interweaves a groundbreaking queer oral history project with meticulous, original research into the discourse on homosexuality and transsexuality in Czechoslovakia from 1948 to 1989. Contrary to expectations, the book reveals that despite the Czechoslovak Communist regime's brutality in many areas of life, the state did not carry out a hateful or seditious campaign against homosexual and non-heterosexual people. Rather, the official state sexology offices functioned from the late 1970s onward as essentially the first gay clubs in socialist Czechoslovakia. Interweaving the memories of non-heterosexual Czech women born between 1929 and 1952, Vera Sokolov 's study both enriches and challenges existing scholarship on lesbian and gay history during this era, promising to radically change the way we view gender, sexuality, and everyday life during East European socialism.Trade Review"Sokolov 's work is an excellent study in the contradictions of state socialism. Her oral history of non-heterosexual people and Czech sexologists showcases how policy pressure toward homogeneity and suppression of individuality and otherness was countered by expert discourse and practice."--Libora Oates-Indruchov , University of Graz "Queer Encounters offers many . . . counterintuitive surprises. Sokolov finds that the socialist Czechoslovak state did not target homosexuals for persecution. In fact, the offices of sexologists became in the 1970s places for gay, trans, and lesbian men and women to hang out. Most surprisingly, Sokolov argues that by refusing to diagnose and name 'homosexuality' in Czechoslovak society, the state gave individuals the freedom to choose their own sexual identities and genders and to live them out in fascinating ways. Based on oral history and archival research, Queer Encounters will change the way we view socialist culture."--Kate Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together some of the most exciting, original and cutting-edge work being conducted on contemporary queer China. The volume includes original essays by some of the most prolific and central queer activists and artists in the PRC, placing their writing alongside work by emergent and established scholars from a variety of disciplines and backgrounds. The book offers unique perspectives by presenting primary accounts of the creative and multi-faceted strategies that activists and community organizers have developed in their various activities. The volume also presents rich, empirical evidence of every-day queer lives across China, offering a unique record not only of cosmopolitan community and activist perspectives but also of voices and experiences from a broad range of locations and identifications. As a whole it offers invaluable insights into sexual and gender diversity in China today. Queer/Tongzhi China thus breathes as it speaks, providing through its diverse approaches a different understanding of queer China than standard mono-ethnographies or social-scientific documentaries.

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Book Synopsis* First book on gay identity and queer activism in the PRC examined from a cultural studies perspective. * An interdisciplinary project that combines historical and critical analysis of queer cultural texts and ethnographic studies of queer public culture in urban China. * Offers keen insights on identity, power and governmentality in China. This very timely, well-written and insightful exploration of gay identity and queer activism in the People's Republic of China today is more than a study of `queer China' through the lens of male homosexuality; it also examines identity, power and governmentality in contemporary China, as shaped by China's historical conditions and contemporary situations. This book offers in-depth analysis of recent queer history and contemporary cultural texts, including the processes by which queer theory and activism was introduced and received in the PRC, the transformation of Shanghai's queer spaces, leading queer filmmaker Cui Zi'en life and works, and personal diaries written by gay men receiving conversion therapies. It also presents rich ethnographic data gained from fieldwork conducted in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou's urban gay communities and documents queer public cultural events such as the Shanghai LGBT Pride, the Beijing Queer Film Festival, the China Queer Film Festival Tour, as well as a clash between cruising gay men and the police over the use of public space in the People's Park, Guangzhou. This book offers a queer Marxist analysis of sexual identity and social movements in contemporary China, where ideological negotiations between socialism and neoliberalism are constantly played out in the formation of public cultures and intimate spheres. In doing so, it critically assesses the role of Marxism and China's socialist legacies in shaping sexual identity, queer popular culture and political activism. Although the first of its kind from a cultural studies perspective, this interdisciplinary study speaks to scholars working in disparate fields including anthropology, sociology, media studies, film studies, political theory, and Asian Studies.

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Book SynopsisGender Variances and Sexual Diversity in the Caribbean: Perspectives, Histories, Experiences is a collection of critical perspectives on fundamental questions of how sexual orientation and gender in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean are conceived, studied, discoursed and experienced. Bringing together and updating existing and in-progress scholarly work on minority genders and sexualities in the region, this collection seeks to provide a fresh set of lenses through which to examine the issues affecting people in the Caribbean who fall outside the traditional binary categories of heterosexual males or heterosexual females.Opening with a variety of perspectives – from the biological to the religious and historiographical – the volume explores definitions of sex and gender as well as constructions of sexuality among Commonwealth Caribbean scholars, and the ways in which the Judaeo-Christian tradition popular in the region has responded to these. Other chapters examine the socializing forces that reinforce or challenge conventional conceptions of gender and sexuality, and how these result in the constraining forces of social exclusion and discrimination that many members of the LGBTQ community in the region experience. The book ends with chapters that interrogate the normative standards of gender and sexuality that have traditionally underlain Caribbean popular culture. Additionally, there is an exploration of how anti-gay discourse in Jamaican dancehall, embedded in a language linked to the country's vernacular nationalism, has been neutralized by a coalition of local and international LGBTQ activists.Table of Contents Introduction 1. "Gender" in Caribbean Discourse: Ruptures, Revisions, Reconstructions 2. Conceptualizing Sex/Gender Diversity: Considerations for the Caribbean 3. The Variability of the Sexes from a Sociobiological Perspective 4. "Male and Female Created He Them": Calling for a New Discourse on Gender and Sexual Diversity in the Jamaican Church 5. Taboo and Obligation: Normative Pressures on Sexuality and Gender in the Caribbean and the Rise of Hard Masculinity 6. "Bring It Cross?": Sexuality and "Passing" in Jamaica 7. The Myth of the "Free Pass" in Jamaica: An Assessment of the Representation of Women Who Love Women in the Media 8. The Impact of Jamaican Popular Culture in Shaping Normative Conceptions of Gender and Sexuality 9. Dem Bow: Translation, Globalization and Dancehall's Recalibrated Anti-Gay Discourse Contributors

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Book SynopsisContention has surrounded the status of minorities throughout Indonesian history. Two broad polarities are evident: One inclusive of minorities, regarding them as part of the nation’s rich complexity and a manifestation of its ‘Unity in Diversity’ motto The other is exclusive, viewing with suspicion or disdain those communities or groups that differ from the perceived majority. State and community attitudes towards minorities have fluctuated over time. Some periods have been notable for the acceptance of minorities and protection of their rights, while others have been marked by anti-minority discrimination, marginalisation and sometimes violence. This book explores the complex historical and contemporary dimensions of Indonesia’s religious, ethnic, LGBT and disability minorities from a range of perspectives, including historical, legal, political, cultural, discursive and social. It addresses fundamental questions about Indonesia’s tolerance and acceptance of difference, and examines the extent to which diversity is embraced or suppressed.

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Book SynopsisFeminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet is about placing sexual orientation politics within feminist theorizing. It is also about defining the central political issues confronting lesbians and gay men. The book brings the study of lesbians from the margins of feminist theory to the center by critiquing the analytic frameworks employed within feminist theory that renders invisible lesbians'' difference from heterosexual women. This book also outlines the basic features of lesbian and gay subordination by exploring the differences between heterosexual dominance and gender and race relations. Throughout, Calhoun aims to re-center lesbian and gay politics away from concerns with sexual regulations and toward concern with the displacement of gays and lesbians from the public sphere of visible citizenship and from the private sphere of romance, marriage, and family.Trade ReviewAre romantic love and sexual attraction the essence of lesbianism? Is legal recognition for same-sex marriage and parenting essential to justice for lesbians and gay men? Cheshire Calhoun answers YES to both questions, and she defends both conclusions subtly and rigorously. Feminism, the Family, and the Politics of the Closet has ignited productive controversy. This, I think, is the highest praise anyone can give a work of social theory. * Professor Diana T Meyers, University of Connecticut *This book offers new insights into such major philosophical issues as the relationship of lesbian to feminist theory and such major practical ones as the case for same-sex marriage. An excellent text for LGBT studies, Women's Studies, and Contemporary Moral Issues courses. Equally accessible to LGBT activists and other interested ethical or political theorists. Beautifully written, scrupulously argued, certain to become a classic! * Professor Claudia Card, University of Wisconsin *In this book, Cheshire Calhoun, one of the pre-eminent ethical theorists of our day, turns her careful, creative and analytical mind to a set of questions concerning lesbian and gay rights. Calhoun boldly challenges several central and widely-accepted theoretical and practical claims, most significantly, the applicability of feminist theory to theorizing lesbians and gay men and their social and legal positions and struggles. * Professor Edward Stein, Cardozo School of Law *Table of Contents1. Introduction: Centering Sexual Orientation Politics ; 2. Separating Lesbian Theory from Feminist Theory ; 3. The Gender Closet ; 4. The Shape of Lesbian and Gay Subordination ; 5. Defending Marriage ; 6. Constructing Lesbians and Gay Men and Family's Outlaws

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This comprehensive second edition inspires therapists to utilize clinical work to pragmatically address intersectional oppressions, lessen the burden of minority stress, and implement effective LGBTQ affirmative therapy. A unique and important contribution to LGBTQ literature, this handbook includes both new and updated chapters reflecting cutting-edge intersectional themes like race, ethnicity, polyamory, and monosexual normativity. A host of expert contributors outline the best practices in affirmative therapy, inspiring therapists to guide LGBTQ clients into deconstructing the heteronormative power imbalances that undermine LGBTQ relationships and families. There is also an increased focus on clinical application, with fresh vignettes included throughout to highlight effective treatment strategies. Couple and family therapists and clinicians working with LGBTQ clients, and those interested in implementing affirmative therapy in their practice, will find this updated

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