Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction
Stories of Repentance and Defiance
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 11 July 2024
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781350289833
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 132x140x20 mm
- Weight 541 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 bw illus 619
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Long description:
For over half a century, organizations and individuals promoting ex-gay, conversion and/ or reparative therapy have pushed the tenet that a person may be able to, and should, alter their sexual orientation. Their so-called treatments or therapies have taken various forms over the decades, ranging from medical (including psychiatric or psychological) rehabilitation approaches, to counselling, and religious healing.
Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction provides an in-depth exploration of the disturbing phenomenon of gay conversion 'therapy' and its fictional and autobiographical representations across a broad range of films and books such as But I'm a Cheerleader! (1999), This is What Love in Action Looks Like (2011) and Boy Erased (2018). In doing so, the volume emphasizes the powerful role the arts and media play in communicating stories around conversion practices. Approaching the timely and urgent subject from an interdisciplinary perspective, contributors utilize film theory, queer theory, literary theory, mental health and social movement theory to discuss the medicalization and pathologizing of queer people, the power of institutions ranging from church, psychiatry and family (sometimes in alliance), and the real and fictional voices of survivors.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
I: Memoirs and Memoirists
1. 'A Life of Unlearning': The Author Reflects - Anthony Venn-Brown (author and co-founder of Freedom 2b, Australia)
2. 'Being Gay, Being Christian': The Professional Reflects - Stuart Edser (Counselling Psychologist, Australia)
II: Stories of Repentance and Defiance in Documentaries and Biopics
3. 'I remember Feeling Like I was Sitting on the Wrong Side of the Circle': Documentary Film and the Exposition of Conversion Practices - James E. Bennett (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
4. Three Films, Conversion Practices and the Paratext: I am Michael, Michael Lost and Found, and Once Gay - Matthew and Friends - Marguerite Johnson (University of Queensland, Australia)
III: Memoir, Film and Fiction
5. But I'm A Cheerleader: Awkward and Flippant, Accurate and Ground-breaking - Tom Sharples (University of Newcastle, Australia)
6. Save Me: Reconciling Queerness and Christianity - David R. Coon (University of Washington Tacoma, USA)
7. The Quiet Violence of Denying Queerness in the Novel and Film, The Miseducation of Cameron Post - Jessica Ford (University of Adelaide, Australia) and Annika Herb (University of Newcastle, Australia)
8. Defined by their Abjection: Boy Erased and the Limits of Queer Victimhood in Activist Cinema - Scott McKinnon (La Trobe University, Australia)
Conclusion
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Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction: Stories of Repentance and Defiance
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