Tough love : sexuality, compassion, and the Christian right / Cynthia Burack.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burack, Cynthia, 1958-

Series:

SUNY Series in Queer Politics and Cultures

SUNY series in queer politics and cultures

SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abortion--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Abortion.

Christian conservatism--United States.

Christian conservatism.

Christianity and politics--United States.

Christianity and politics.

Church and social problems--United States.

Church and social problems.

Compassion--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Compassion.

Conservatism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Conservatism.

Homophobia--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Homophobia.

Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Homosexuality.

Religious right--United States.

Religious right.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

""tough love: sexuality, compassion, and the christian right""; ""Contents""; ""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""; ""Chapter 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""; ""Chapter 2: What about the Women? Compassion in Postabortion Ministries""; ""From Abomination to Compassion""; ""It�s about the Women, Stupid""; ""Postabortion Syndrome""; ""Compassion before Abortion""; ""Helping Hurting Women""; ""Sorting Out Compassion""; ""Chapter 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""""Chapter 4: Just Deserts: The Compassion of Ayn Rand""; ""Who Is John Galt?""; ""Rand, Sex, and Gender""; ""Objectiv(ist) Compassion""; ""The Value of Compassion""; ""The Boundary of Compassion""; ""Sacrificing the Guilty""; ""Special Rights""; ""Responsibility for Harm""; ""Focus on the Intellectuals""; ""Ayn Rand Always with Us""; ""Chapter 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""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter 1""; ""Chapter 2""; ""Chapter 3""; ""Chapter 4""; ""Chapter 5""; ""Afterword""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 26, 2013).

ISBN:

9781461951483

1461951488

9781438449883

1438449887

OCLC:

865009442