Burack Tough Love

Sexuality, Compassion, and the Christian Right
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4988-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 257 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures

Exposes how ex-gay and post-abortion ministries operate on a shared system of thought and analyzes their social implications.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burack, Cynthia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Christian Right’s Compassionate Conservatism

Left, Right, Left: Forward March
The Faces of Compassion
Different Rhetorics for Different Folks
Fixing Moral Boundaries
“The Politics of Yuck”
A Word about Words, and So On

1. Let’s Both Agree That You’re Really Sinful: Compassion in the Ex-Gay Movement

Reparative Therapies
The Narrative of Development
Out of Bondage
The Compassionate Gaze
Leaving Homosexuality
Taking the Ex-Gay Challenge

2. What about the Women? Compassion in Postabortion Ministries

From Abomination to Compassion
It’s about the Women, Stupid
Postabortion Sydrome
Compassion before Abortion
Helping Hurting Women
Sorting Out Compassion

3. Christian Right Compassion: What Would Hannah Arendt Do?

Identity in Politics
Caution: Hazardous Compassion Ahead
The Miserable Ones
Love among the Outcasts
A World of Others
Revisiting Compassion Campaigns
Arendt and Christian Love

4. Just Deserts: The Compassion of Ayn Rand

Who Is John Galt?
Rand, Sex, and Gender
Objectiv(ist) Compassion
Ayn Rand Always with Us

5. Drawing the Compassionate Line: Love, Guilt, and Melanie Klein

The Psychoanalytic Turn
More Narratives of Development
Making Good
Bad Group!
Being Reparative
Can “Compassion” Harm?
Compassionate Warriors

Afterword: Compassion, Where Is Thy Victory?

Whence Compassion?
A Last Word on Theory
Feeling(s) and Knowing

Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cynthia Burack is Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University. She is the coeditor (with Jyl J. Josephson) of Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives, and the author of several books, including Healing Identities: Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Groups and Sin, Sex, and Democracy: Antigay Rhetoric and the Christian Right, also published by SUNY Press.