Sex, Cells, and Same-Sex Desire: The Biology of Sexual Preference
ISBN: 9781560230601 / Angielski / Miękka / 491 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This fascinating new book explores the myriad aspects of biological theories of sexual preference. Sex, Cells, and Same-Sex Desire describes, reviews, and questions recent biological research on sexual preference from the point of view of knowledgeable scientists and of scholars in the social sciences and humanities representing the emerging field of gay studies. The issues involved have a vibrant history, are wide-ranging, and remain the objects of much controversy. This book demystifies biological research on sexual preference and makes it accessible to readers unfamiliar with biological...
This fascinating new book explores the myriad aspects of biological theories of sexual preference. Sex, Cells, and Same-Sex Desire describes, reviews,...
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291,63 zł |
Lesbians of Color: Social and Human Services
ISBN: 9781560230724 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Broaden your understanding of lesbians of color, their perspectives, and their needs from a human services point of view. Lesbians of Color: Social and Human Services helps you understand the ways in which lesbians of color perceive important issues related to their oppression and discrimination by the dominant social service community. The authors'personalized accounts graphically depict the deep-seated impacts of society s racism, sexism, and homophobia. This insightful book suggests effective ways of changing detrimental practices and agency policies that perpetuate oppression and...
Broaden your understanding of lesbians of color, their perspectives, and their needs from a human services point of view. Lesbians of Color: Social an...
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240,46 zł |
Health Care for Lesbians and Gay Men: Confronting Homophobia and Heterosexism
ISBN: 9781560230793 / Angielski / Miękka / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Homophobia and heterosexism present barriers to lesbians and gay men seeking health care. Health Care for Lesbians and Gay Men educates practitioners about the special needs of gay and lesbian patients and how to critically look at the impact of homophobia and heterosexism on the provision of care. It provides an overview of critical health care issues for lesbians and gay men and offers concrete suggestions to health practitioners and social workers on how to address these issues in order to guarantee the best care for their patients and clients.
Homophobia and heterosexism present barriers to lesbians and gay men seeking health care. Health Care for Lesbians and Gay Men educates practitioners ...
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112,53 zł |
Queer Families, Common Agendas: Gay People, Lesbians, and Family Values
ISBN: 9781560231295 / Angielski / Twarda / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Vital information on family services, custody, and access rights for gay parents Queer Families, Common Agendas: Gay People, Lesbians, and Family Values examines the real life experience of those affected by current laws and policies regarding homosexual families. The book will help policy makers, lawyers, social workers, and the general public better understand these families. Here you will be able to compare the progress of policy in the U.S. and Canada for gay and lesbian parents and their children and explore relevant legal approaches in the two countries. In Queer...
Vital information on family services, custody, and access rights for gay parents Queer Families, Common Agendas: Gay People, Lesbians, and F...
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665,24 zł |
Affirmative Psychotherapy with Bisexual Women and Bisexual Men
ISBN: 9781560232988 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learn the latest practicaland bisexually affirmativeapproaches to helping bisexual clients Clinical work with bisexual clients has conceptually shifted beyond the exclusive emphasis on either straight or lesbian and gay issues. There are still, however, too few psychotherapists who provide affirmative psychotherapy specific to bisexual concerns. Affirmative Psychotherapy with Bisexual Women and Bisexual Men addresses the issues of bisexuals with an accepting and affirmative perspective, providing therapists with the latest viewpoints, strategies, and research to effectively treat bisexual...
Learn the latest practicaland bisexually affirmativeapproaches to helping bisexual clients Clinical work with bisexual clients has conceptually shifte...
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143,23 zł |
Affirmative Psychotherapy with Bisexual Women and Bisexual Men
ISBN: 9781560232995 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Learn the latest practicaland bisexually affirmativeapproaches to helping bisexual clients Clinical work with bisexual clients has conceptually shifted beyond the exclusive emphasis on either straight or lesbian and gay issues. There are still, however, too few psychotherapists who provide affirmative psychotherapy specific to bisexual concerns. Affirmative Psychotherapy with Bisexual Women and Bisexual Men addresses the issues of bisexuals with an accepting and affirmative perspective, providing therapists with the latest viewpoints, strategies, and research to effectively treat bisexual...
Learn the latest practicaland bisexually affirmativeapproaches to helping bisexual clients Clinical work with bisexual clients has conceptually shifte...
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97,18 zł |
Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Participation in African-Inspired Traditions in the Americas
ISBN: 9781560233510 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What roles do queer and transgender people play in the African diasporic religions? Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Participation in African-Inspired Traditions in the Americas is a groundbreaking scholarly exploration of this long-neglected subject. It offers clear insight into the complex dynamics of gender and sexual orientation, humans and deities, and race and ethnicity, within these richly nuanced spiritual practices. Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions explores the ways in which gender complexity and same-sex intimacy are integral to the...
What roles do queer and transgender people play in the African diasporic religions? Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and ...
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317,22 zł |
Psychotherapy with Gay Men and Lesbians: Contemporary Dynamic Approaches
ISBN: 9781560233978 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examine gay and lesbian psychoanalysis from a variety of perspectives
Psychotherapy with Gay Men and Lesbians: Contemporary Dynamic Approaches presents case histories of psychotherapy sessions with gay and lesbian patients, focusing on today's psychoanalytical approaches. Dedicated to enhancing the emotional, psychological, and psychiatric treatment of gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals, the book features prominent analysts with a wide range of clinical and theoretical approaches. The foremost experts in the therapeutic field address issues affecting gay and lesbian patients from... Examine gay and lesbian psychoanalysis from a variety of perspectives
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306,98 zł |
Psychotherapy with Gay Men and Lesbians: Contemporary Dynamic Approaches
ISBN: 9781560233985 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examine gay and lesbian psychoanalysis from a variety of perspectives Psychotherapy with Gay Men and Lesbians: Contemporary Dynamic Approaches presents case histories of psychotherapy sessions with gay and lesbian patients, focusing on today's psychoanalytical approaches. Dedicated to enhancing the emotional, psychological, and psychiatric treatment of gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals, the book features prominent analysts with a wide range of clinical and theoretical approaches. The foremost experts in the therapeutic field address issues affecting gay and lesbian patients from psychoanalytic...
Examine gay and lesbian psychoanalysis from a variety of perspectives Psychotherapy with Gay Men and Lesbians: Contemporary Dynamic Approaches present...
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127,88 zł |
Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies
ISBN: 9781579581428 / Angielski / Twarda / 748 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies surveys the field in some 470 entries on individuals (Adrienne Rich); arts and cultural studies (Dance); ethics, religion, and philosophical issues (Monastic Traditions); historical figures, periods, and ideas (Germany between the World Wars); language, literature, and communication (British Drama); law and politics (Child Custody); medicine and biological sciences (Health and Illness); and psychology, social sciences, and education (Kinsey Report).
The Reader's Guide to Lesbian and Gay Studies surveys the field in some 470 entries on individuals (Adrienne Rich); arts and cultural studies...
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1023,44 zł |
Crossways of Sex: A Study in Eroto-Pathology
ISBN: 9781589637375 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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82,12 zł |
Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men, and Ancestral Wives: Female Same-Sex Practices in Africa
ISBN: 9781770090934 / Angielski / Miękka / 335 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Documents same sexuality in East and South Africa. With eight chapters co-authored by women activists from six countries, this book demonstrates that there are silenced, traditional ways in which African women contracted same-sex relations. It testifies that although silence isolates these women, some are beginning to speak out.
Documents same sexuality in East and South Africa. With eight chapters co-authored by women activists from six countries, this book demonstrates that ...
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85,91 zł |
Wild Desires and Mistaken Identities : Lesbianism and Psychoanalysis
ISBN: 9781855753303 / Angielski / Miękka / 315 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking book, based on the authors' clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, provides a challenging exploration of psychoanalytic ideas about lesbians and lesbianism from Freud, Deutsch, Jung and Lacan to contemporary object-relations theorists, such as Klein and McDougall. Questions of sexual identity, sexual desire and gender identity, of transference and countertransference, and also of institutional practices in relation to training, are all critically -- and stimulatingly -- addressed.
This groundbreaking book, based on the authors' clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, provides a challenging exploration of psychoan...
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184,17 zł |
Lesbian Family Life, Like the Fingers of a Hand: Under-Discussed and Controversial Topics
ISBN: 9781560237716 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, an array of approaches - first person and theoretical accounts, clinical understandings, qualitative and quantitative research - are brought to bear on controversial or under-discussed topics in lesbian family life. From conception all the way to care for elderly parents, this book takes a fresh look at lesbian family relationships. Topics include: butch/femme couples, infidelity, the psychological meaning of family for lesbians, age-discrepant couples, lesbian nuns as family, Listservs as family, intentional family for aging women, women raising sons, mothers who come... In this book, an array of approaches - first person and theoretical accounts, clinical understandings, qualitative and quantitative research - are ... |
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204,63 zł |
Queer and Catholic
ISBN: 9781560237136 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does one reconcile the tension between the community of one s own Catholic upbringing and a sexuality and gender identity that may be in conflict with some of the tenets of the faith especially when one is a member of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex community? Queer and Catholic offers a source of comfort to members of these communities, focusing on not only practicing Catholics, but also the entire experience of growing up Catholic. This unique book discusses Catholicism beyond its religiosity and considers its implications as a culture of... How does one reconcile the tension between the community of one s own Catholic upbringing and a sexuality and gender identity that may be i... |
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266,04 zł |
From Perverts to Fab Five: The Media's Changing Depiction of Gay Men and Lesbians
ISBN: 9780789036711 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From "Perverts" to "Fab Five" tracks the dramatic change in how the American media have depicted gay people over the last half-century. Each chapter illuminates a particular media product that served as a milestone on the media's journey from demonizing homosexuals some fifty years ago to celebrating gay people--or at least some categories of gay people--today. The media, Streitmatter argues, have not merely reflected the American public's shift to a more enlightened view of gay people, but they have been instrumental in propelling that change.... From "Perverts" to "Fab Five" tracks the dramatic change in how the American media have depicted gay people over the last half-ce... |
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199,52 zł |
Fatal Women: Lesbian Sexuality and the Mark of Aggression
ISBN: 9780415100823 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Starting from the historical link between criminality and sexual deviancy, this text builds a complex theory in which the shadow of the lesbian animates representations of violent women in literature, plays, films and performance. Chapters detail this theory in diverse areas, including: Frank Wedekind's Lulu Plays; Thelma and Louise and Basic Instinct; the performance art of Karen Finley in the context of censorship debates; The Split Britches performance, Lesbians Who Kill, and Fatal Women.
Starting from the historical link between criminality and sexual deviancy, this text builds a complex theory in which the shadow of the lesbian animat...
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189,28 zł |
Into the Promised Land
ISBN: 9781854246769 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Jeanette became a Christian she hoped that - over time, as others have experienced - she would find her sexual orientation changed sufficiently to consider marriage and possibly even children. It was not to be. God had something different, but not less valuable and fulfilling, in mind. "Living in a conversely hopeful/hopeless land of possible change had left me exhausted, powerless and well short of the promised abundant life. In accepting that my attractions, if fostered, would lead to a reoccurrence of lesbian behaviour proved beneficial. An unseen, and largely unknown, barrier between...
When Jeanette became a Christian she hoped that - over time, as others have experienced - she would find her sexual orientation changed sufficiently t...
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48,43 zł |
Courting Change: Queer Parents, Judges, and the Transformation of American Family Law
ISBN: 9780814775950 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2010 Pacific Sociological Association Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award A lesbian couple rears a child together and, after the biological mother dies, the surviving partner loses custody to the child's estranged biological father. Four days later, in a different court, judges rule on the side of the partner, because they feel the child relied on the woman as a -psychological parent.- What accounts for this inconsistency regarding gay and lesbian adoption and custody cases, and why has family law failed to address them in a comprehensive... Winner of the 2010 Pacific Sociological Association Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award A lesbian couple rears a... |
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409,37 zł |
Queer and Catholic
ISBN: 9781560237129 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does one reconcile the tension between the community of one's own Catholic upbringing and a sexuality and gender identity that may be in conflict with some of the tenets of the faith - especially when one is a member of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex community? Queer and Catholic offers a source of comfort to members of these communities, focusing on not only practicing Catholics, but also the entire experience of growing up Catholic. This unique book discusses Catholicism beyond its religiosity and considers its implications as a culture... How does one reconcile the tension between the community of one's own Catholic upbringing and a sexuality and gender identity that may be i... |
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716,40 zł |