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Tom Waidzunas - The Straight Line: How the Fringe Science of Ex-Gay Therapy Reoriented Sexuality - 9780816696147 - V9780816696147
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The Straight Line: How the Fringe Science of Ex-Gay Therapy Reoriented Sexuality

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Description for The Straight Line: How the Fringe Science of Ex-Gay Therapy Reoriented Sexuality Hardback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: JFSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 499.

To be taken seriously, therapies that claim to “cure” homosexuality wrap themselves in lab coats. Even though the fit is bad, and such therapies and their theorists now inhabit the scientific fringe, the science of sexuality has made some adjustments, too, Tom Waidzunas tells us in this provocative work.

Intervening in the politics of sexuality and science, The Straight Line argues that scientific definitions of sexual orientation do not merely reflect the results of investigations into human nature, but rather emerge through a process of social negotiation between opposing groups. The demedicalization of homosexuality and the discrediting of reparative therapies, ... Read more

While most studies treat the ex-gay movement as a religious phenomenon, this book looks at how the movement, in its attempts to establish legitimacy, has engaged with scientific institutions, shaping virulent anti-gay public policy.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816696147
SKU
V9780816696147
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About Tom Waidzunas
Tom Waidzunas is assistant professor of sociology at Temple University.

Reviews for The Straight Line: How the Fringe Science of Ex-Gay Therapy Reoriented Sexuality
"In The Straight Line, Tom Waidzunas offers a nuanced account of conflicts over sexual mutability in relation to civil rights and equal protection under the law. This book astutely analyzes the cultural saturations of scientific claims concerning ‘reorientation,’ tracing the ex-gay movement’s origins and its decline in the United States as well as its troubling ascent in post-colonial Uganda."—Jennifer Terry, ... Read more

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