From Boys to Men: Gay Men Write about Growing Up
ISBN: 9780786716326 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than an anthology of coming out stories, From Boys to Men is a stunning collection of essays about what it is like to be gay and young, to be different and be aware of that difference from the earliest of ages. In these memoirs, coming out is less important than coming of age and coming to the realization that young gay people experience the world in ways quite unlike straight boys. Whether it is a fascination with soap opera, an intense sensitivity to their own difference, or an obsession with a certain part of the male anatomy, gay kids or kids who would eventually identify as gay have...
More than an anthology of coming out stories, From Boys to Men is a stunning collection of essays about what it is like to be gay and young, to be dif...
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138,51 zł |
Lesbians and Gays in Couples and Families: A Handbook for Therapists
ISBN: 9780787902223 / Angielski / Twarda / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first book to focus on clinical work with lesbians and gays in family relationships
This groundbreaking resource provides you with a wealth of fascinating research and case examples, as well as recommAndations and suggestions for working with gay couples and families. Joan Laird and Robert-Jay Green have gathered a distinguished panel of practitioners to create this comprehensive collection. The contributors address the experiences of lesbians and gay men as couples and as parents?and examine their relationships with the families in which they were raised. The first book to focus on clinical work with lesbians and gays in family relationships
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306,67 zł |
Two Spirit People : American Indian Lesbian Women and Gay Men
ISBN: 9780789000033 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two Spirit People is the first-ever look at social science research exploration into the lives of American Indian lesbian women and gay men. Editor Lester B. Brown posits six gender styles in traditional American Indian culture: men and women, not-men and not-women (persons of one biological sex assuming the identity of the opposite sex in some form), and gays and lesbians. He brings together chapters that emphasize American Indian spirituality, present new perspectives, and provide readers with a beginning understanding of the place of lesbian, gay, and bisexual Indians within American...
Two Spirit People is the first-ever look at social science research exploration into the lives of American Indian lesbian women and gay men. Editor Le...
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678,70 zł |
The Bear Book: Readings in the History and Evolution of a Gay Male Subculture
ISBN: 9780789000910 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Bear Book is a composite portrait of gay bears--usually big, hairy men who favor full-face beards and prefer to wear jeans and flannel shirts. This emergent social phenomenon and new sexual iconography is burgeoning across America, Western Europe, and other parts of the gay global village. The first-ever book on the gay bear phenomenon, this book offers readers a collection of first-person observations and historical and critical investigations by participant observers within and outside the bear community. This exciting book is organized in an ideologically revealing manner, including...
The Bear Book is a composite portrait of gay bears--usually big, hairy men who favor full-face beards and prefer to wear jeans and flannel shirts. Thi...
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678,70 zł |
Our Families, Our Values: Snapshots of Queer Kinship
ISBN: 9780789002341 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our Families, Our Values challenges both the gay community and American society to examine carefully the meaning of family values and the nature of social institutions such as marriage and the family. It asks you provoking, even disturbing, questions such as: "Is it prudent for members of the Lavender community to mimic heterosexual marriage or define personal relations networks as families, when these institutions are rapidly collapsing?" "Are we attempting to mainstream American society into accepting different views of marriage and families?" "Are we subscribing to notions of sexual...
Our Families, Our Values challenges both the gay community and American society to examine carefully the meaning of family values and the nature of so...
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653,56 zł |
Acts of Disclosure: The Coming-Out Process of Contemporary Gay Men
ISBN: 9780789002365 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Confronting the psychological, social, sexual, legal, and political issues at stake in the coming-out process, Acts of Disclosure: The Coming-Out Process of Contemporary Gay Men uses research findings and first-hand accounts to help gay adolescents and men accept and embrace their sexual identity as an integral part of their being. Offering helpful advice and specific suggestions that will guide you through the coming-out process, this text also teaches family, friends, and colleagues how they can support and encourage you in this challenge.A roadmap through the confusing process of...
Confronting the psychological, social, sexual, legal, and political issues at stake in the coming-out process, Acts of Disclosure: The Coming-Out Proc...
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653,56 zł |
School Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Youth : The Invisible Minority
ISBN: 9780789003768 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As School Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Youths illustrates, the consequences of the cognitive, social, and emotional isolation that sexual minority youths experience as a result of homophobia and heterosexism can be devastating. With this book's helpful suggestions, provocative insight, and open challenges, you can help gay and lesbian youth develop feelings of self-worth as well as positive aspirations for their futures. A rich source of information and ideas, it will help social workers, teachers, counselors, and other school personnel take responsibility for recognizing and protecting the...
As School Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Youths illustrates, the consequences of the cognitive, social, and emotional isolation that sexual minority y...
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191,00 zł |
Military Trade
ISBN: 9780789004024 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A same-sex attraction for soldiers and sailors spans the globe and predates the term "homosexual" by several thousand years. But these days "military chasers" are likely to be seen as doubly incorrect. Most are gay men who pursue straight men. And, many of them do it in public. What continues to motivate so many men to brave arrest, violence, and the scorn of gay leaders who condemn any non-gay homosexual desire as "internalized homophobia"?In Military Trade (now updated to include an expanded photo insert ), Steven Zeeland, author of Sailors and Sexual Identity, The Masculine...
A same-sex attraction for soldiers and sailors spans the globe and predates the term "homosexual" by several thousand years. But these days "military ...
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728,97 zł |
Queer Kids : The Challenges and Promise for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth
ISBN: 9780789004390 / Angielski / Twarda / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Packed to the hilt with living narratives, scholarly research, and problem-solution scenarios, Queer Kids: The Challenges and Promise for Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth examines the unique challenges faced by today s homosexual young adults. You ll learn what modern-day queer kids do to cope, survive, and find understanding in a world riddled with homophobic intolerance. Queer Kids is a lens of clarity that will help the average straight adult--and maybe even the average gay adult--see things from a kid s point of view. Its detail-oriented, well-wrought chapters will provide you...
Packed to the hilt with living narratives, scholarly research, and problem-solution scenarios, Queer Kids: The Challenges and Promise for Lesbian, Gay...
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578,15 zł |
Looking Queer : Body Image and Identity in Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay, and Transgender Communities
ISBN: 9780789004635 / Angielski / Twarda / 467 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sixty-three essays collected to counter the notion that the problems of eating and body image disorders are suffered only by heterosexual white women. The essays look at how sexism, racism, ageism, ableism, classism, and heterosexism intersect in body image issues for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered individuals. The volume is divided into
Sixty-three essays collected to counter the notion that the problems of eating and body image disorders are suffered only by heterosexual white women....
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678,70 zł |
Scandinavian Homosexualities: Essays on Gay and Lesbian Studies
ISBN: 9780789005083 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scandinavian societies are among the most advanced in the world with regard to institutionalized civil rights of lesbians and gays. This collection of articles offers non-Scandinavian readers a rare opportunity to explore the history, sociology, experiences, and cultural politics of homosexuality in the region. Coverage encompasses the early modern
Scandinavian societies are among the most advanced in the world with regard to institutionalized civil rights of lesbians and gays. This collection of...
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678,70 zł |
The HIV-Negative Gay Man : Developing Strategies for Survival and Emotional Well-Being
ISBN: 9780789005229 / Angielski / Twarda / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addresses the psychosocial and psychosexual needs of HIV-negative gay men as well as strategies for staying uninfected and living life to the fullest in the face of HIV-AIDS. Seven chapters explore topics such as complex emotional reactions, peer groups, why a sex life vocabulary needs to be built, where Latino men can learn critical thinking about
Addresses the psychosocial and psychosexual needs of HIV-negative gay men as well as strategies for staying uninfected and living life to the fullest ...
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437,34 zł |
The Construction of Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men
ISBN: 9780789005908 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discover new information and perspectives on why today s culture holds prejudice toward gay men and lesbians The Construction of Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men explores the pervasiveness and widespread social acceptance of heterosexism in the United States by analyzing existing social and political systems for their representative beliefs. As a scholar or student of psychology, sociology, women s studies/gay & lesbian studies, or social work who is concerned with the need for positive change in attitudes toward same-sex relationships at cultural, this book is for you. You...
Discover new information and perspectives on why today s culture holds prejudice toward gay men and lesbians The Construction of Attitudes T...
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427,28 zł |
Lila's House: Male Prostitution in Latin America
ISBN: 9780789005939 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lila's House: Male Prostitution in Latin America presents insight into male prostitution in a truly global array of Latin American countries. This study focuses on a very specific sexual culture within the realm of male prostitution: the young men of a lower/middle-class brothel catering to a broad range of clients. You will explore the culture of juvenile prostitution and learn from the immediate intervention program that was implemented. Twenty-five young men between the ages of 13 and 27 were interviewed for this study. They share with you their views on:
Lila's House: Male Prostitution in Latin America presents insight into male prostitution in a truly global array of Latin American countries. This stu...
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527,88 zł |
A Consumer's Guide to Male Hustlers
ISBN: 9780789005960 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Consumer s Guide to Male Hustlers gives you exciting insight into all you ever wanted to know about hustlers but were too embarrassed to ask. You ll find answers to questions such as where and how to find hustlers, how much to pay them, and how to make it an experience that is satisfying to both parties. Author Joseph Itiel shares with readers his personal experiences and observations, describing his dealings with hustlers, over a period of about 35 years, in many different countries.Throughout A Consumer s Guide to Male Hustlers, Itiel narrates personal anecdotes, lending an...
A Consumer s Guide to Male Hustlers gives you exciting insight into all you ever wanted to know about hustlers but were too embarrassed to ask. You ll...
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728,97 zł |
The Bear Book II: Further Readings in the History and Evolution of a Gay Male Subculture
ISBN: 9780789006363 / Angielski / Twarda / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is a serious discussion of an emerging gay subculture Take another fascinating journey into the bear's den with the latest offering from Les Wright, author of The Bear Book. The Bear Book II will show you the contrast between the media image of the fun-loving, carefree bear man and the health, image, psychological, technological, and sexual concerns of bears living in the real world. A continuation of The Bear Book (1997), this study of typically big, hairy, and bearded gay men explores bears on a societal and personal level, giving a wide voice to bears of all ages,...
Here is a serious discussion of an emerging gay subculture Take another fascinating journey into the bear's den with the latest offering fr...
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678,70 zł |
Multicultural Queer: Australian Narratives
ISBN: 9780789006516 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jackson (Thai history, Australian National U.) and Sullivan (behavioral sciences, U. of Sydney) present 13 articles which explore how lesbians and gay men who are members of non-anglo ethnic diversities (predominantly of Asian descent) negotiate their sexuality in the dual contexts of the culture of their parents and their childhood and the dominan
Jackson (Thai history, Australian National U.) and Sullivan (behavioral sciences, U. of Sydney) present 13 articles which explore how lesbians and gay...
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578,15 zł |
Lady Boys, Tom Boys, Rent Boys: Male and Female Homosexualities in: Male and Female Homosexualities in Contemporary Thailand
ISBN: 9780789006561 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In response to Western and Thai sexuality studies that fail to accurately represent the diverse sexuality of Thailand, Jackson (Thai history, Australian National U.) and Sullivan (behavioral sciences, U. of Sydney) present nine contributions which discuss certain factors that need to be taken into account when developing AIDS/HIV intervention progr
In response to Western and Thai sexuality studies that fail to accurately represent the diverse sexuality of Thailand, Jackson (Thai history, Australi...
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553,01 zł |
Latino Truck Driver Trade: Sex and HIV in Central America
ISBN: 9780789008831 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What do truckers do about their sexual needs on the road?This startling and unique study examines the on-the-road sex lives of Central American truck drivers. It takes a quantitative and qualitative look at the extent of homosexuality, prostitution, drug use, and vulnerability to HIV infection among these men who operate in a strangely unique sexual culture. Latino Truck Driver Trade: Sex and HIV in Central America documents the extent of their sexual activities with both men and women as well as drug use and prostitution among this population. Honest and revealing, this...
What do truckers do about their sexual needs on the road?This startling and unique study examines the on-the-road sex lives of Central Ameri...
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211,10 zł |
Midlife and Older LGBT Adults : Knowledge and Affirmative Practice for the Social Services
ISBN: 9780789018359 / Angielski / Twarda / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hunter (social work, U. of Texas-Arlington) examines the context in which midlife and older lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people live; and some of the issues they may need to cope with or overcome. She covers identities and coming out, life arenas, positive and negative aspects, social work practice with the population. Practitione
Hunter (social work, U. of Texas-Arlington) examines the context in which midlife and older lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people live...
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879,80 zł |