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Trans Life Survivors by Walt Heyer powerfully portrays the human toll inflicted by so-called "gender experts", who push gender transition on people, who don't need it.
Experience for yourself the raw emotions and "aha" moments from 30 people, who were convinced gender change was the answer, but came to see it was not.
This one-of-a-kind book is packed with information:
• Emails from 30 transgender survivors
• The latest research and information
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More than forty years after its initial publication, Man and Woman in Christ continues to be regarded by many as the most faithful and comprehensive study of biblical manhood and womanhood. Stephen B. Clark thoroughly lays out the authoritative teaching of the Old and New Testaments on the distinct roles of men and women, but he doesn't stop there. He goes on to trace the application of Scripture's teaching through the history of the Church, bringing...
3) More than a Monologue: Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church: Inquiry, Thought, and Expression
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This volume, like its companion, Voices of Our Times, collects essays drawn from a series of public conferences held in autumn 2011 entitled "More than a Monologue." The series was the fruit of collaboration among four institutions of higher learning: two Catholic universities and two nondenominational divinity schools. The conferences aimed to raise awareness of and advance informed, compassionate, and dialogical conversation about issues of sexual...
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The Second Vatican Council's landmark document Gaudium et spes called Catholics to cultivate robust, mutually enriching dialogue with the modern world by attentively and discerningly listening to the "voices of our times." This distinctive new publication, the first of two volumes that explore sexual diversity and the Catholic Church, gathers an important set of these voices: the testimonies and reflections of Catholic and former Catholic LGBTQ (lesbian,...
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Written by a social worker, popular educator, and transgender man, this well-rounded resource combines an accessible portrait of transgenderism with a rich history of transgender life and unique experiences of discrimination. The first guide to treat transgenderism as a distinct topic of study, this text moves beyond mere anecdote and recommendations for clinical practice to legitimatize transgenderism in society and culture. Chapters introduce transgenderism...
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We're well into the twenty-first century, yet we continue to struggle with the same problems that have plagued us for centuries. Violence. Poverty. Inequality. Toxic relationships. As hopeless as it seems, however, real change is possible. The first step is to understand the driving force behind all the turmoil in the world.
In Feminine Masculine Balance, Jacqueline McLeod explains how masculine and feminine energies are unbalanced on a global scale....
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This edited collection provides interdisciplinary, global, and multi-religious perspectives on the relationship between women's identities, religion, and social change in the contemporary world. The book discusses the experiences and positions of women, and particular groups of women, to understand patterns of religiosity and religious change. It also addresses the current and future challenges posed by women's changes to religion in different parts...
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Women, Politics and the Public Sphere is a socio-historical analysis of the relationship between women, politics and the public sphere. It looks at the fault-lines established in the eighteenth century for later developments in social and political discourse and considers the implications for the political representation of women in the West and globally, highlighting how women public intellectuals now reflect much more social and cultural diversity....
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Mujer, esposa, madre, a cargo de las tareas domésticas. Hombre, sostén del hogar, trabajador de tiempo completo fuera de su casa. En la intimidad, la diosa sexy y el macho siempre dispuesto. En pleno siglo XXI, atravesamos una época de cambios en la que muchos estereotipos sobre los géneros y la sexualidad parecen en entredicho. Sin embargo, lejos de haberse evaporado, siguen ahí: se activan cada vez que algo no encaja con nuestras ideas de "lo...
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La violencia familiar es una de las principales manifestaciones de la violencia de género. Para las mujeres representa una fuente de sufrimiento y padecimiento, y origina diversos problemas de salud.
A partir del impacto que provoca, requiere la formulación de políticas y la organización de prácticas y servicios para su abordaje. Este libro encuadra algunos aspectos como la oferta de atención, cuidados y apoyo destinados a mujeres en situación...
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This collection represents years of struggle in both transgender, gender variant, and queer liberation movements, and the movement against the prison industrial complex. The first of its kind, not simply a bridge, but a space for discourse about the linkages between these struggles. A vital look at how gender and sexuality are lived under the crushing weight of corporal captivity.
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Brill, who largely introduced psychoanalysis to America, published in volume in 1921. Drawn from his lectures, but designed for the general reader and student, the book employs straightforward prose to cover subjects such as the cathartic method, the psychology of forgetting, wit, dreams and their types, insanity, the only child, fairy tales, art, and the psychopathology of everyday life.
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Scientific and engineering research is increasingly global, and international collaboration can be essential to academic success. Yet even as administrators and policymakers extol the benefits of global science, few recognize the diversity of international research collaborations and their participants, or take gendered inequalities into account. Women in Global Science is the first book to consider systematically the challenges and opportunities...
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La juventud adulta de hoy en día ¿es rebelde respecto al género o está volviendo a la tradición? Barbara J. Risman nos revela las diversas estrategias que utiliza esta generación para negociar la revolución de género actual. Apoyándose en su teoría del género como estructura social, analiza las historias de vida de un conjunto diverso de "millennials" y sus identidades de género, sus ideologías y sus esperanzas y sueños para el futuro....
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For the past decade, the Maldives has experienced economic growth, mostly driven by tourism. As an archipelago comprised of small islands, the land area is limited and the resource base narrow, with low potential for agriculture and other industries and high vulnerability to climate change. Its small population is dispersed and fragmented, making delivery of services costly and difficult. With resources and services concentrated in the capital city...
17) Análisis y actuaciones en diferentes contextos de intervención (salud y sexualidad, educación, oc
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
18) Gendered Spaces
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In hundreds of businesses, secretaries -- usually women -- do clerical work in "open floor" settings while managers -- usually men -- work and make decisions behind closed doors. According to Daphne Spain, this arrangement is but one example of the ways in which physical segregation has reinforced women's inequality. In this important new book, Spain shows how the physical and symbolic barriers that separate women and men in the office, at home,...
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This vintage book contains Edward Carpenter's ground-breaking study of homosexuality, "Intermediate Types Among Primitive Folk - A Study In Social Evolution". It is a fascinating study of social evolution centered on the idea that there is a spectrum of 'types' of man and woman. The author postulates that there exists a range in sexuality, there being feminine bodies with masculine minds and vice versa. Expertly written in a manner that makes it readily...
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Written for students of psychology, this 1922 work examines the values, motives, and impulses of the adult-and how these are related to "original nature." Along the way it calls into question contemporary theories of institutional repression and thwarting of expression, as espoused in "the dogmatic claims of evolutionists."
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