{"product_id":"banning-conversion-therapy-legal-and-policy-perspectives-9781509961153","title":"Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’: Legal and Policy Perspectives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book looks at why and how states should legally ban LGBTQ+ ‘conversion therapy’. \u003c\/b\u003eFew states have legislated against the practice, with many currently considering its legal ban.   \u003ci\u003eBanning ‘Conversion Therapy’ \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together leading academics, legal and medical practitioners, policymakers, and activists to illuminate the legislative and non-legislative steps that are required to protect individuals from the harms of ‘conversion therapy’ in different contexts.   The book considers how best to address this complex and interdisciplinary legal problem which cuts across human rights law, criminal law, family law, and socio-legal studies, and which represents one of the key contemporary problems of LGBTQ+ equality and national and international human rights activism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA powerful legal case against unethical, harmful and ineffective conversion practices. * Peter Tatchell, Director of Peter Tatchell Foundation *\u003cbr\u003eThis much-needed collection of interdisciplinary scholarship is an ideal primer for policymakers, advocates, and laypeople seeking to understand the history, forms, targets, and harms of so-called “conversion therapy” – as well as policy remedies for ending these cruel and pervasive practices. The chapter authors share expert insights for navigating the thorniest social, developmental, religious, and legal issues any ban on these practices would raise. * Jessica Stern, US Special Envoy to Advance the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Persons *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword, \u003ci\u003eVictor Madrigal-Borloz (Harvard Law School, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e  Introduction,\u003ci\u003e Ilias Trispiotis (University of Leeds, UK) and Craig Purshouse (University of Liverpool, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart One: Reasons for a Ban\u003c\/b\u003e 1. The Legal Duty to Ban ‘Conversion Therapy’, \u003ci\u003eIlias Trispiotis (University of Leeds, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 2. Conversion Practices and Coercive Control, \u003ci\u003eJonathan Herring (University of Oxford, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 3. Historical, Clinical and Ethical Perspectives: An Update on ‘I’m Your Handyman’, \u003ci\u003eJack Drescher (Columbia University, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Feeling Pain and Shame: The Emotional Grammar of Banning ‘Conversion Therapy’, \u003ci\u003eSenthorun Raj (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart Two: The Scope of a Ban\u003c\/b\u003e 5. ‘Conversion Therapy’ and Children’s Rights, \u003ci\u003eNoam Peleg (University of New South Wales, Australia)\u003c\/i\u003e 6. How Do Practices to ‘Convert’ Childhood Gender Diversity Impact a Child’s Right to Develop? \u003ci\u003eHannah Hirst (University of Sheffield, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 7. Ensuring Trans Protection within a Ban on Conversion Practices, \u003ci\u003eLui Asquith (Russell-Cooke LLP, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 8. Exorcism and Other Spiritual Modes of ‘Conversion Therapy’: Balancing Religious Liberty and Individual Rights, \u003ci\u003eJavier García Oliva (University of Manchester, UK ) and Helen Hall (Nottingham Trent University, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePart Three: Beyond a Ban\u003c\/b\u003e 9. The Religious Dimension: Confronting Spiritual Abuse, \u003ci\u003eJayne Ozanne (Ban Conversion Therapy Coalition, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 10. Nothing About Us Without Us: Listening to and Engaging with Survivors of Conversion Practices, \u003ci\u003eJordan Sullivan (Community-Based Research Centre, Canada) and Nick Schiavo (No Conversion Canada, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e 11. ‘Conversion Therapy’ and Transformative Reparations,\u003ci\u003e Natasa Mavronicola (University of Birmingham, UK) and Lee Davies (University of Birmingham, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51742586896727,"sku":"9781509961153","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781509961153.jpg?v=1758385442","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/banning-conversion-therapy-legal-and-policy-perspectives-9781509961153","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}