{"product_id":"gay-conversion-practices-in-memoir-film-and-fiction-stories-of-repentance-and-defiance-9781350289833","title":"Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction: Stories of Repentance and Defiance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eGay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBut I'm a Cheerleader!\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), \u003ci\u003eThis is What Love in Action Looks Like\u003c\/i\u003e (2011) and \u003ci\u003eBoy Erased\u003c\/i\u003e (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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Bennett\u003c\/b\u003e is an Honorary Academic at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is author of \u003ci\u003e'Rats and Revolutionaries': The Labour Movement in Australia \u0026amp; New Zealand 1890-1940\u003c\/i\u003e (2004) and co-editor (with Rebecca Beirne) of \u003ci\u003eMaking Film and Television Histories: Australia and New Zealand \u003c\/i\u003e(I.B. Tauris, 2011). He is a specialist in the histories of medicalizing and de-medicalizing homosexuality. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarguerite Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e is Honorary Professor in the School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, University of Queensland, Australia. She is the author of the second edition of \u003ci\u003eSexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature: A Sourcebook\u003c\/i\u003e (2022), \u003ci\u003eOvid on Cosmetics\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2015), and co-editor (with Harold Tarrant) of \u003ci\u003eAlcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2012).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51259875590418,"sku":"9781350289833","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8aa17f34-ef43-4e74-9b2e-1a59938bbd9d.jpg?v=1746630726","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/gay-conversion-practices-in-memoir-film-and-fiction-stories-of-repentance-and-defiance-9781350289833","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}