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

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

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Burack, Cynthia, 1958-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2014.
Series:SUNY series in queer politics and cultures.
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Table of 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 MinistriesFrom 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.