Straight But Not Narrow
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Author | : Lynne Gerber |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2012-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0226288137 |
Losing weight and changing your sexual orientation are both notoriously difficult to do successfully. Yet many faithful evangelical Christians believe that thinness and heterosexuality are godly ideals—and that God will provide reliable paths toward them for those who fall short. Seeking the Straight and Narrow is a fascinating account of the world of evangelical efforts to alter our strongest bodily desires. Drawing on fieldwork at First Place, a popular Christian weight-loss program, and Exodus International, a network of ex-gay ministries, Lynne Gerber explores why some Christians feel that being fat or gay offends God, what exactly they do to lose weight or go straight, and how they make sense of the program’s results—or, frequently, their lack. Gerber notes the differences and striking parallels between the two programs, and, more broadly, she traces the ways that other social institutions have attempted to contain the excesses associated with fatness and homosexuality. Challenging narratives that place evangelicals in constant opposition to dominant American values, Gerber shows that these programs reflect the often overlooked connection between American cultural obsessions and Christian ones.
Author | : Ritch C. Savin-Williams |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2017-11-13 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 067497638X |
Based on research, the author explores in this publication the personal stories of forty young men to help us understand the biological and psychological factors that led them to become mostly straight and the cultural forces that are loosening the sexual bind that many boys and young men experience.
Author | : Honor Tracy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thomas E. Schmidt |
Publisher | : Apollos |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 9780851111575 |
A reasoned response to the contemporary moral debate about homosexuality, taking into account the latest medical and social scientific research, and thoroughly examining biblical and theological concerns.
Author | : Katherine Sender |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0231127340 |
"Advocates and critics have looked at the boom in the gay market with both excitement and trepidation. For some, gay and lesbian themes in advertising represent mainstream validation of their existence, while others are concerned that marketers have misrepresented the gay community by depicting it as white, male, and wealthy. Critics also suggest that the phenomenon of gay consumerism runs counter to progressive gay activism. Sender expands on these concerns, arguing that what is at stake is not only acceptance and civil rights but also the very meaning of GLBT sexual identification." "Sender's work draws on interviews with 45 professionals who work in gay marketing and media, including magazine publishers, ad directors, sales representatives, and public relations consultants. The book analyzes and gives an insider's account of how marketers conceive of gay and lesbian consumers and articulate the "gayness" of certain products."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Paul Lisicky |
Publisher | : Graywolf Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2016-01-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1555979211 |
In The Narrow Door, Paul Lisicky creates a compelling collage of scenes and images drawn from two long-term relationships, one with a woman novelist and the other with his ex-husband, a poet. The contours of these relationships shift constantly. Denise and Paul, stretched by the demands of their writing lives, drift apart, and Paul's romance begins to falter. And the world around them is frail: environmental catastrophes like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, natural disasters like the earthquake in Haiti, and local disturbances make an unsettling backdrop to the pressing concerns of Denise's cancer diagnosis and Paul's impending breakup. Lisicky's compassionate heart and resilience seem all the stronger in the face of such searing losses. His survival--hard-won, unsentimental, authentic--proves that in turning toward loss, we embrace life.
Author | : Don Pakito |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 2019-05-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781099410215 |
Be different and rock this LGBT journal that will definitely show pride of being gay bisexual, lesbian, transgender or straight as long as you love life and support equality. A writing book for students where they can down notes at school or a simple diary to tell stories of success and struggles in your everyday journey. It also works as a simple lined book to get things organized while having a multi purpose clean looking planner for future trips and vacations. Celebrate life in a spectacular fashion by being the colorful you.
Author | : Jonathan Ned Katz |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2014-12-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 022630762X |
“Heterosexuality,” assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely exempt from critical scrutiny. In this boldly original work, Jonathan Ned Katz challenges the common notion that the distinction between heterosexuality and homosexuality has been a timeless one. Building on the history of medical terminology, he reveals that as late as 1923, the term “heterosexuality” referred to a "morbid sexual passion," and that its current usage emerged to legitimate men and women having sex for pleasure. Drawing on the works of Sigmund Freud, James Baldwin, Betty Friedan, and Michel Foucault, The Invention of Heterosexuality considers the effects of heterosexuality’s recently forged primacy on both scientific literature and popular culture. “Lively and provocative.”—Carol Tavris, New York Times Book Review “A valuable primer . . . misses no significant twists in sexual politics.”—Gary Indiana, Village Voice Literary Supplement “One of the most important—if not outright subversive—works to emerge from gay and lesbian studies in years.”—Mark Thompson, The Advocate
Author | : David McGlynn |
Publisher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2013-07-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1619022494 |
This debut collection received critical acclaim and is now available for the first time in trade paper. The stories in The End of the Straight and Narrow take on the inner lives of the zealous, their passions and desires, and the ways religious faith is both the compass for navigating daily life and the force that makes ordinary life impossible. In "Landslide," an aspiring evangelist witnesses the miraculous event that launches his career, but fails to notice the mental decline of his college roommate. In "Moonland on Fire," a divorced, born–again father, his new wife, and his estranged teenage son battle to save their dilapidated home from a massive fire. In "Deep in the Heart" a dying boy reveals his final wish to his estranged parents: he wants to kill a deer. In "Seventeen One–Hundredths of a Second" an aging virgin is drawn into a precarious friendship. The five linked stories that comprise the collection's latter half focus on a woman blinded suddenly while giving birth, who years later begins a process of disappearing that confuses her family and leads to ultimately violent and disintegrating ends. Ranging from the coastal highways of Southern California, to the mountains above Salt Lake City, to the swampy bayous and pine forests surrounding Houston, Texas, the stories often take place against the backdrop of disaster—a landslide, a fire, a drowning, a hurricane—as the characters question whether faith illuminates the world or leaves them isolated within it.
Author | : Randolph Harrison McKim |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Sermons, American |
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