Gay conversion practices in memoir, film and fiction : stories of repentance and defiance / edited by James E. Bennett and Marguerite Johnson.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.
  • ©2024
Description
xix, 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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Editor
Series
Library of gender and popular culture [More in this series]
Summary note
"For over half a century, organisations and individuals promoting 'ex-gay,' 'conversion' and/or 'reparative therapy' have pushed the tenet that a person may be able to, and should, alter their sexual orientation. Their so-called 'treatments' or 'therapies' have taken various forms over the decades, ranging from medical (including psychiatric or psychological) 'rehabilitation' approaches, to 'counselling', and religious 'healing.' In this volume, contributors analyse key depictions of conversion therapy across a broad range of films and books such as This is What Love in Action Looks Like (2011), But I'm a Cheerleader! (1999), and Boy Erased (2018)"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • 'A life of unlearning' : the author reflects / Anthony Venn-Brown
  • 'Being gay, being Christian' : the professional reflects / Stuart Edser
  • "I remember feeling like I was sitting on the wrong side of the circle" : documentary film and the exposition of conversion practices / James E. Bennett
  • Three films, conversion practices, and the paratext : I am Michael, Michael lost and found, and once gay
  • Matthew and friends by Marguerite Johnson
  • But I'm a cheerleader : awkward and flippant, accurate and ground-breaking / Tom Sharples
  • Save me : reconciling queerness and Christianity / David R. Coon
  • The quiet violence of denying queerness in the novel and film, the Miseducation of Cameron Post / Jessica Ford and Annika Herb
  • Defined by their abjection : Boy erased and the limits of queer victimhood in activist cinema / Scott McKinnon.
ISBN
  • 9781350289833 ((hardback))
  • 1350289833
  • 9781350289871 ((paperback))
  • 1350289876
LCCN
2023053404
OCLC
1422145068
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