Who doesn't know the story of Dorothy Gale of Kansas? Torn from bleak grays of Kansas by a cyclone, she ends up in the technicolored Oz. Her story offers a powerful model to those caught in another kind of cyclone, the terror of sexual abuse. Just as Dorothy found her way home, so can those of us displaced by abuse. We can walk with Dorothy, learn from here, and brick by brick find our own way home.
Who doesn't know the story of Dorothy Gale of Kansas? Torn from bleak grays of Kansas by a cyclone, she ends up in the technicolored Oz. Her story off...
Transgender Realities is a brief introduction to gender variant people and to the judgments made about them. The volume begins with a consideration of what gender is and does, and how this relates to all of us. Turning to specific consideration of transgender people, the book offers what research reveals about them, but also what they report about themselves. The causes of transgender, how society responds to it, and how partners, family and friends relate to a transgender person are only a few of the matters discussed. Also included is a survey of transgender across history and around the...
Transgender Realities is a brief introduction to gender variant people and to the judgments made about them. The volume begins with a consideration of...
Much debate exists over the proper religious perspective on transgender realities and people. This volume examines transgender in the major world religions. Extensive consideration is given to Christianity, including the arguments presented both against transgender behaviors and by supporters of transgender people. Religions covered include Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Confucianism, Taoism, Shinto, and indigenous religions such as Native American religions of the United States.
Much debate exists over the proper religious perspective on transgender realities and people. This volume examines transgender in the major world reli...