Torn: Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-Vs.-Christians Debate
ISBN: 9781455514304 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a teenager and young man, Justin Lee felt deeply torn. Nicknamed "God Boy" by his peers, he knew that he was called to a life in the evangelical Christian ministry. But Lee harbored a secret: He also knew that he was gay. In this groundbreaking book, Lee recalls the events--his coming out to his parents, his experiences with the "ex-gay" movement, and his in-depth study of the Bible--that led him, eventually, to self-acceptance. But more than just a memoir, TORN provides insightful, practical guidance for all committed Christians who wonder how to relate to gay friends...
As a teenager and young man, Justin Lee felt deeply torn. Nicknamed "God Boy" by his peers, he knew that he was called to a life in t...
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77,26 zł |
Out in Paperback
ISBN: 9781608205608 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,49 zł |
Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe
ISBN: 9781469600888 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on six major Supreme Court cases during the 1960s and 1970s, Marc Stein examines the generally liberal rulings on birth control, abortion, interracial marriage, and obscenity in Griswold, Eisenstadt, Roe, Loving, and Fanny Hill alongside a profoundly conservative ruling on homosexuality in Boutilier. In the same era in which the Court recognized special marital, reproductive, and heterosexual rights and privileges, it also upheld an immigration statute that classified homosexuals as "psychopathic personalities." Stein shows how a diverse set...
Focusing on six major Supreme Court cases during the 1960s and 1970s, Marc Stein examines the generally liberal rulings on birth control, abortion, in...
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202,91 zł |
Tomorrow's Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America
ISBN: 9780814717400 / Angielski / Twarda / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Honorable Mention for the 2014 MLA Alan Bray Memorial Award Honorable Mention for the 2014 MLA Alan Bray Memorial Award |
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385,12 zł |
What Is the Meaning of Sex?
ISBN: 9781433536090 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sex. We live in a world that loves it without understanding it. This book clearly explains the truth about sex and winsomely responds to society's evolving views on human sexuality and gender. From marriage to birth control, homosexuality to singleness, What is the Meaning of Sex? sets forth a distinctly Christian perspective, equipping you to engage our confused culture with a God-glorifying vision of human sexuality. Sex. We live in a world that loves it without understanding it. This book clearly explains the truth abou... |
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107,36 zł |
Queer Representation, Visibility, and Race in American Film and Television: Screening the Closet
ISBN: 9780415894142 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book traces the uneven history of queer media visibility through crucial turning points including the Hollywood Production Code era, the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, the so-called explosion of gay visibility on television during the1990s, and the re-imagination of queer representations on TV after the events of 9/11. Kohnen intervenes in previous academic and popular accounts that paint the increase in queer visibility over the past four decades as a largely progressive development. She examines how and why a limited and limiting concept of queer visibility structured around white gay... This book traces the uneven history of queer media visibility through crucial turning points including the Hollywood Production Code era, the AIDS ... |
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836,10 zł |
Queer Tracks: Subversive Strategies in Rock and Pop Music
ISBN: 9781409437024 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Queer Tracks describes motifs in popular music that deviate from heterosexual orientation, the binary gender system and fixed identities. This exciting cutting-edge work deals with the key concepts of current gender politics and queer theory in rock and pop music, including irony, parody, camp, mask/masquerade, mimesis/mimicry, cyborg, transsexuality, and dildo. Based on a constructivist concept of gender, Leibetseder asks: a Which queer-feminist strategies are used in rock and pop music?' a How do they function?' a Where do they occur?' Leibetseder's methodological process is to discover...
Queer Tracks describes motifs in popular music that deviate from heterosexual orientation, the binary gender system and fixed identities. This excitin...
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734,76 zł |
Unshattered Dreams
ISBN: 9780988296022 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Unshattered Dreams is a must-read that will benefit anyone who had mild conflicts to severe abuse or trauma in childhood. If you had a difficult childhood then you know the challenges you face in trying to live a happy and successful life. This is because you may still be struggling with the aftermath of what you endured. Imagine what your life would be like if you could break free, so that you can fulfill your heart's desires. This groundbreaking book guides you on a journey that will inspire you to transcend your troubled past.
Unshattered Dreams is a must-read that will benefit anyone who had mild conflicts to severe abuse or trauma in childhood. If you had a difficult child...
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91,15 zł |
Queer Media Images: Lgbt Perspectives
ISBN: 9780739180280 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Queer Media Images: LGBT Perspectives presents 15 articles that address how the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities are depicted in the media. This collection of articles focuses on how the LGBT community has been silenced or given voice through the media. Through a study of queer media images, this book scrutinizes LGBT media representations and how these representations contribute to a dialogue about civil rights for this marginalized community. While the Communication discipline has been open to the LGBT community through the creation of caucuses at international,...
Queer Media Images: LGBT Perspectives presents 15 articles that address how the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered communities are depicted in ...
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400,05 zł |
Queer Love in Film and Television: Critical Essays
ISBN: 9781137272966 / Angielski / Twarda / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing primarily on film and televisual texts from the ten years before and after the millennium, the contributors ask how recent films and television programs play with, imitate, subvert, mock, critique, and queer the romantic narrative conventions so common in Western culture.
Focusing primarily on film and televisual texts from the ten years before and after the millennium, the contributors ask how recent films and televisi...
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194,97 zł |
The World' and Other Unpublished Works by Radclyffe Hall
ISBN: 9780719088285 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents a wide range of previously unpublished works by Radclyffe Hall. These important new materials significantly broaden and complicate critical views of Hall's writing, and offer vital new perspectives on this often misunderstood writer. Hall is well-known as the author of the lesbian novel The Well of Loneliness (1928), but the diversity of her literary work and the complexity of her ideological perspectives remain underappreciated. The writings made available here for the first time correct such narrow approaches, demonstrating the stylistic and thematic reach of Hall's... This book presents a wide range of previously unpublished works by Radclyffe Hall. These important new materials significantly broaden and complica... |
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480,06 zł |
Trans: Gender and Race in an Age of Unsettled Identities
ISBN: 9780691172354 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and political activist Rachel Dolezal was "outed" by her parents as white, touching off a heated debate in the media about the fluidity of gender and race. If Jenner could legitimately identify as a woman, could Dolezal legitimately identify as black? Taking the controversial pairing of "transgender" and "transracial" as his starting point, Rogers Brubaker shows how gender and race, long understood as stable, inborn, and unambiguous, have in the past few decades opened up--in different... In the summer of 2015, shortly after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender, the NAACP official and political activist Rachel Dolezal was "outed" b... |
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106,68 zł |
Repudiating Feminism: Young Women in a Neoliberal World
ISBN: 9781409410300 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gender equality is a widely shared value in many western societies and yet, the mention of the term feminism frequently provokes unease, bewilderment or overt hostility. Repudiating Feminism sheds light on why this is the case. Grounded in rich empirical research and providing a timely contribution to debates on engagements with feminism, Repudiating Feminism explores how young German and British women think, talk and feel about feminism. Drawing on in-depth interviews with women from different racial and class backgrounds, and with different sexual orientations, Repudiating Feminism reveals...
Gender equality is a widely shared value in many western societies and yet, the mention of the term feminism frequently provokes unease, bewilderment ...
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709,42 zł |
Sexuality, Rurality, and Geography
ISBN: 9780739169360 / Angielski / Twarda / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This international edited collection contributes to knowledge about the geographies of sexualities experienced and imagined in rural spaces. The book draws attention to the heterogeneity of rural contexts and the diversity of meanings about sexualities within and across these spaces. The collection examines four key themes. First, 'Intimacies and Institutions' focuses on how intimate relationships are governed by societal, discursive and institutional structures, and regulated by social, political and legal frames of citizenship and belonging. The chapters present historical and contemporary...
This international edited collection contributes to knowledge about the geographies of sexualities experienced and imagined in rural spaces. The book ...
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517,40 zł |
Autobiography of My Hungers
ISBN: 9780299292508 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rigoberto Gonzalez, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, takes a second piercing look at his past through a startling new lens: hunger. The need for sustenance originating in childhood poverty, the adolescent emotional need for solace and comfort, the adult desire for a larger world, another lover, a different body all are explored by Gonzalez in a series of heartbreaking and poetic vignettes. Each vignette is a defining moment of self-awareness, every moment an important step in a lifelong journey toward clarity, knowledge, and the...
Rigoberto Gonzalez, author of the critically acclaimed memoir Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa, takes a second piercing look at hi...
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85,68 zł |
Tomboys and Bachelor Girls: A Lesbian History of Post-War Britain 1945-71
ISBN: 9780719089923 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using a rich array of oral histories and archival sources, Tomboys and bachelor girls provides the first detailed academic study of lesbian identity and culture in post-war Britain. Described by psychiatrists as immature and neurotic, and widely ignored as taboo by mainstream society, lesbians nevertheless recognised and accepted their same-sex desire and sought out women like themselves. Challenging the conventional picture of the post-war decades as years of austerity and conservative femininity, this book traces the emergence of a vibrant lesbian social scene in Britain, centred on the...
Using a rich array of oral histories and archival sources, Tomboys and bachelor girls provides the first detailed academic study of lesbian identity a...
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90,63 zł |
Acceptance of Lgbt's in the Netherlands 2013
ISBN: 9789037706499 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP reports every other year on trends in the acceptance of homosexuality in the Netherlands, and provides a snapshot of the current level of acceptance. In this latest edition, the institute also looks for the first time at the social acceptance of bisexuals and transgenders. Acceptance by the general public in the Netherlands is continuing to increase, though some groups (such as religious groups and migrants) lag behind this trend.
The Netherlands Institute for Social Research/SCP reports every other year on trends in the acceptance of homosexuality in the Netherlands, and provid...
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177,30 zł |
Towards Tolerance: Exploring Changes and Explaining Differences in Attitudes Towards Homosexuality Across Europe
ISBN: 9789037706505 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This report describes trends and differences in attitudes to homosexuality in Europe. Which are the countries where acceptance is increasing--or declining? Which countries can currently be described as tolerant, and in which countries are there clear limits to that tolerance? And which factors underlie these differences? SCP answers these questions by drawing on large European datasets.
This report describes trends and differences in attitudes to homosexuality in Europe. Which are the countries where acceptance is increasing--or decli...
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126,63 zł |
Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews
ISBN: 9780252079726 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Better known in 1882 as a cultural icon than a serious writer, Oscar Wilde was brought to North America for a major lecture tour on Aestheticism and the decorative arts. With characteristic aplomb, he adopted the role as the ambassador of Aestheticism, and he tried out a number of phrases, ideas, and strategies that ultimately made him famous as a novelist and playwright. This exceptional volume cites all ninety-one of Wilde's interviews and contains transcripts of forty-eight of them, and it also includes his lecture on his travels in America.
Better known in 1882 as a cultural icon than a serious writer, Oscar Wilde was brought to North America for a major lecture tour on Aestheticism and t...
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122,63 zł |
Lawfully Wedded Husband: How My Gay Marriage Will Save the American Family
ISBN: 9780299294908 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Joel Derfner's boyfriend proposed to him, there was nowhere in America the two could legally marry. That changed quickly, however, and before long the two were on what they expected to be a rollicking journey to married bliss. What they didn't realise was that, along the way, they would confront not just the dilemmas every couple faces on the way to the altar--what kind of ceremony would they have? what would they wear? did they have to invite Great Aunt Sophie?--but also questions about what a relationship can and can't do, the definition of marriage, and, ultimately, what makes a...
When Joel Derfner's boyfriend proposed to him, there was nowhere in America the two could legally marry. That changed quickly, however, and before lon...
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115,74 zł |