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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464271803321

Autore

Burack Cynthia <1958->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2014

ISBN

1-4619-5148-8

1-4384-4988-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in queer politics and cultures

Disciplina

277.3/083

Soggetti

Abortion - Religious aspects - Christianity

Christian conservatism - United States

Christianity and politics - United States

Church and social problems - United States

Compassion - Religious aspects - Christianity

Conservatism - Religious aspects - Christianity

Homophobia - Religious aspects - Christianity

Homosexuality - Religious aspects - Christianity

Religious right - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""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""