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“john dececco, phd”

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  • If You Seduce a Straight Person, Can You Make Them Gay?

    Issues in Biological Essentialism Versus Social Constructionism in Gay and Lesbian Identities

    by John Dececco, Phd, John Patrick Elia ...
    The debate on whether or not people are born homosexual (biological essentialist theory) or become homosexual during the course of their lives (social constructionist theory) continues as each side claims to prove the truth through research and clinical findings. This breakthrough book shows the fissures in concepts of the gay and lesbian identity and the one-sidedness of both biological ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Gay Men at Midlife

    Age Before Beauty

    by John Dececco, Phd, Alan L Ellis ...
    “Those of us in our forties and fifties came of age in the 1960s and 1970s--a time when the available commentary on gay life was anything but supportive. Until 1973, homosexuality was a diagnosable mental illness.” --from the Introduction by Alan L. EllisToday, that literary blindness is being remedied. Take an in-depth look into the lives of 15 gay men and how they relate to their own aging with ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Gay Personality And Sexual Labeling

    Critical Clinical Issues

    by John Dececco, Phd ...
    Are scientists--who by definition are supposed to be objective and clinical in their theories--actually assuming common cultural prejudices and moral standards when it comes to their research on homosexuality? Some of the best minds in sexual liberation take a hard look at how homosexuality is still defined and viewed by established schools of thought and propose fascinating and often ... Read more

    $46.71 CAD

  • A Sea of Stories

    The Shaping Power of Narrative in Gay and Lesbian Cultures: A Festschrift for John P. DeCecco

    by John Dececco, Phd, Sonya L Jones ...
    Take a look at how narrative has shaped gay and lesbian cultureA Sea of Stories: The Shaping Power of Narrative in Gay and Lesbian Cultures: A Festschrift for John P. De Cecco is an unforgettable collection of personal narratives that explores the historical, psychological, and sociological contexts of homosexuality in locations ranging from Nazi Germany to Colorado. Some of the prominent authors ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Origins of Sexuality and Homosexuality

    by John Dececco, Phd, Michael Shively ...
    This well-documented book highlights some of the theories of bisexual and homosexual identities and their conceptual bases in cultural history, moral philosophy, biology, and social psychology. Some of the most respected minds in the field of human sexuality challenge traditional views on homosexuality and question the moral principles implicit in many existing psychiatric and psychological ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD

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    by Dominic Janes ...
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  • Radical Relations

    Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II

    by Daniel Winunwe Rivers ...
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    In Radical Relations, Daniel Winunwe Rivers offers a previously untold story of the American family: the first history of lesbian and gay parents and their children in the United States. Beginning in the postwar era, a period marked by both intense repression and dynamic change for lesbians and gay men, Rivers argues that by forging new kinds of family and childrearing relations, gay and lesbian ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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    A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences

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    In this wickedly humorous manual, language columnist June Casagrande uses grammar and syntax to show exactly what makes some sentences great—and other sentences suck.Great writing isn’t born, it’s built—sentence by sentence. But too many writers—and writing guides—overlook this most important unit. The result? Manuscripts that will never be published and writing careers that will never begin.With ... Read more

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  • Unspeakable Love

    Gay and Lesbian Life in the Middle East

    by Brian Whitaker ...
    Homosexuality is a taboo subject in the Arab world. While clerics denounce it as a heinous sin, newspapers write cryptically of 'shameful acts' and 'deviant behaviour'. Amid the calls for reform in the Middle East, homosexuality is one issue that almost everyone in the region would prefer to ignore. In this absorbing account, Guardian journalist Brian Whitaker calls attention to the voices of men ... Read more

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  • My Gender Workbook, Updated

    A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving World Peace Through Gender Anarchy and Sex Positivity

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  • Writing Great Books for Young Adults

    Everything You Need to Know, from Crafting the Idea to Landing a Publishing Deal

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    From a top young adult literary agent, the only guide on how to write for young adultsWith an 87 percent increase in the number of titles published in the last two years, the young adult market is one of the healthiest segments in the industry. Despite this, little has been written to help authors hone their craft to truly connect with this audience. Writing Great Books for Young Adults gives ... Read more

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  • Depression

    A Public Feeling

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    In Depression: A Public Feeling, Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and critical essay in search of ways of writing about depression as a cultural and political phenomenon that offer alternatives to medical models. She describes her own experience of the professional pressures, creative anxiety, and political hopelessness that led to intellectual blockage while she was finishing her dissertation and ... Read more

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