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In the Shadow of the Epidemic

Author : Walt Odets
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822316381
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the Epidemic written by Walt Odets and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For gay men who are HIV-negative in a community devastated by AIDS, survival may be a matter of grief, guilt, anxiety, and isolation. In the Shadow of the Epidemic is a passionate and intimate look at the emotional and psychological impact of AIDS on the lives of the survivors of the epidemic, those who must face on a regular basis the death of friends and, in some cases, the decimation of their communities. Drawing upon his own experience as a clinical psychologist and a decade-long involvement with AIDS/HIV issues, Walt Odets explores the largely unrecognized matters of denial, depression, and identity that mark the experience of uninfected gay men. Odets calls attention to the dire need to address issues that are affecting HIV-negative individuals-from concerns about sexuality and relations with those who are HIV-positive to universal questions about the nature and meaning of survival in the midst of disease. He argues that such action, while explicitly not directing attention away from the needs of those with AIDS, is essential to the human and biological well-being of gay communities. In the immensely powerful firsthand words of gay men living in a semiprivate holocaust, the need for a broader, compassionate approach to all of the AIDS epidemic's victims becomes clear. In the Shadow of the Epidemic is a pathbreaking first step toward meeting that need.

Families Like Mine

Author : Abigail Garner
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060527579
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Families Like Mine written by Abigail Garner and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it really like to grow up with gay parents? Abigail Garner was five years old when her mother and father divorced and her dad came out as gay. Growing up immersed in gay culture, she now calls herself a "culturally queer" heterosexual woman. As a child, she often found herself in the middle of the political and moral debates surrounding lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) parenting. At the age of twenty-two, she began to speak publicly about her family and has since become a nationally recognized advocate for the estimated 10 million children growing up with LGBT parents. The creator of FamiliesLikeMine.com, Garner has written a deeply personal and much-needed book about gay parenting, from the seldom-heard perspective of grown children raised in these families. Based on eight years of activism, combined with interviews with more than fifty sons and daughters, Families Like Mine debunks the anti-gay myth that these children grow up damaged and confused. At the same time, Garner's book refutes the popular pro-gay sentiment that these children turn out "just like everyone else." In addition to the typical stresses of growing up, the unique pressures these children face are not due to their parents' sexuality, but rather to homophobia and prejudice. Using a rich blend of journalism and memoir, Garner offers empathetic yet unapologetic opinions about the gifts and challenges of being raised in families that are often labeled "controversial." As more LGBT people are pursuing parenthood and as the visibility of gay parenting is rapidly increasing, many of the questions about these families focus on the "best interests" of their children. Eloquent and sophisticated, Families LikeMine addresses these questions, providing an invaluable insider's perspective for LGBT parents, their families, and their allies.

AIDS

Author : H. Mahler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book AIDS written by H. Mahler and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Owning Your Own Shadow

Author : Robert A. Johnson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061957682
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Owning Your Own Shadow written by Robert A. Johnson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand the dark side of your psyche—a Jungian approach to transformative self-acceptance. We all have shadows—the unlit part of our ego that is hidden and never goes away, but merely—and often painfully—turns up in unexpected places. This powerful work from the acclaimed Jungian analyst and bestselling author of Inner Work and We explores our need to “own” our own shadow: learn what it is, how it originates, and how it impacts our daily lives. It is only when we accept and honor the shadow within us that we can channel its energy in a positive way and find balance.

Tinderbox

Author : Craig Timberg
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101560614
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Tinderbox written by Craig Timberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking narrative, longtime Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and award-winning AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin tell the surprising story of how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned its rise. Drawing on remarkable new science, Tinderbox overturns the conventional wisdom on the origins of this deadly pandemic and the best ways to fight it today. Recent genetic studies have traced the birth of HIV to the forbidding equatorial forests of Cameroon, where chimpanzees carried the virus for millennia without causing a major outbreak in humans. During the Scramble for Africa, colonial companies blazed new routes through the jungle in search of rubber and other riches, sending African porters into remote regions rarely traveled before. It was here that humans first contracted the strain of HIV that would eventually cause 99 percent of AIDS deaths around the world. Western powers were key actors in turning a localized outbreak into a sprawling epidemic as bustling new trade routes, modern colonial cities, and the rise of prostitution sped the virus across Africa. Christian missionaries campaigned to suppress polygamy, but left in its place fractured sexual cultures that proved uncommonly vulnerable to HIV. Equally devastating was the gradual loss of the African ritual of male circumcision, which recent studies have shown offers significant protection against infection. Timberg and Halperin argue that the same Western hubris that marked the colonial era has hamstrung the effort to fight HIV. From the United Nations AIDS program to the Bush administration's historic relief campaign, global health officials have favored well-meaning Western approaches--abstinence campaigns, condom promotion, HIV testing--that have proven ineffective in slowing the epidemic in Africa. Meanwhile they have overlooked homegrown African initiatives aimed squarely at the behaviors spreading the virus. In a riveting narrative that stretches from colonial Leopoldville to 1980s San Francisco to South Africa today, Tinderbox reveals how human hands unleashed this epidemic and can now overcome it, if only we learn the lessons of the past.

Boys to Men in the Shadow of AIDS

Author : A. Simpson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023062071X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Boys to Men in the Shadow of AIDS written by A. Simpson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-04-26 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethnography charts the lives of mission-educated men in Zambia and their search for meaning in the AIDS pandemic, as well as their responses to prevention and HIV testing. It also suggests how hegemonic masculinities may begin to be re-figured and gender relationships redesigned.

Meeting the Shadow

Author : Connie Zweig
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 087477618X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Meeting the Shadow written by Connie Zweig and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1991-04-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author offers exploration of self and practical guidance dealing with the dark side of personality based on Jung's concept of "shadow," or the forbidden and unacceptable feelings and behaviors each of us experience.

The Menace of AIDS

Author : Douglas A. Eagles
Publisher : Franklin Watts
ISBN 13 : 9780531105672
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book The Menace of AIDS written by Douglas A. Eagles and published by Franklin Watts. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the origins, causes, characteristics, methods of infection, possible cures and prevention, and social aspects of the deadly disease.

Out of the Shadows

Author : Walt Odets
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374719322
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Out of the Shadows written by Walt Odets and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving exploration of how gay men construct their identities, fight to be themselves, and live authentically It goes without saying that even today, it’s not easy to be gay in America. While young gay men often come out more readily, even those from the most progressive of backgrounds still struggle with the legacy of early-life stigma and a deficit of self-acceptance, which can fuel doubt, regret, and, at worst, self-loathing. And this is to say nothing of the ongoing trauma wrought by AIDS, which is all too often relegated to history. Drawing on his work as a clinical psychologist during and in the aftermath of the epidemic, Walt Odets reflects on what it means to survive and figure out a way to live in a new, uncompromising future, both for the men who endured the upheaval of those years and for the younger men who have come of age since then, at a time when an HIV epidemic is still ravaging the gay community, especially among the most marginalized. Through moving stories—of friends and patients, and his own—Odets considers how experiences early in life launch men on trajectories aimed at futures that are not authentically theirs. He writes to help reconstruct how we think about gay life by considering everything from the misleading idea of “the homosexual,” to the diversity and richness of gay relationships, to the historical role of stigma and shame and the significance of youth and of aging. Crawling out from under the trauma of destructive early-life experience and the two epidemics, and into a century of shifting social values, provides an opportunity to explore possibilities rather than live with limitations imposed by others. Though it is drawn from decades of private practice, activism, and life in the gay community, Odets’s work achieves remarkable universality. At its core, Out of the Shadows is driven by his belief that it is time that we act based on who we are and not who others are or who they would want us to be. We—particularly the young—must construct our own paths through life. Out of the Shadows is a necessary, impassioned argument for how and why we must all take hold of our futures.

Strong Shadows

Author : Abigail Zuger
Publisher : W.H. Freeman
ISBN 13 : 9780716731009
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Strong Shadows written by Abigail Zuger and published by W.H. Freeman. This book was released on 1997-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Eloquent and beautiful. The voices of Dr. Zuger's patients come through with great power, and blessed humor too. This is, quite simply, one of the most moving books I've ever read.' --Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace

Love in the Shadow

Author : Walt Odets
Publisher : Irvington Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780829051650
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Love in the Shadow written by Walt Odets and published by Irvington Pub. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

AIDS in the Shadow of Biomedicine

Author : Isak Niehaus
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1786994763
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (869 download)

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Download or read book AIDS in the Shadow of Biomedicine written by Isak Niehaus and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bushbuckridge region of South Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV infection in the world. Having first arrived in the area in the early 1990s, the disease spread rapidly, and by 2008 life expectancies had fallen by 12 years for men and 14 years for women. Since 2005, public health facilities have increasingly offered free HAART (highly active antiretroviral therapy) treatment, offering a degree of hope, but uptake and adherence to the therapy has been sporadic and uneven. Drawing on his extensive ethnographic research, carried out in Bushbuckridge over the course of 25 years, Isak Niehaus reveals how the AIDS pandemic has been experienced at the village-level. Most significantly, he shows how local cultural practices and values have shaped responses to the epidemic. For example, while local attitudes towards death and misfortune have contributed to the stigma around AIDS, kinship structures have also facilitated the adoption and care of AIDS orphans. Such practices challenge us to rethink the role played by culture in understanding and treating sickness, with Niehaus showing how an appreciation of local beliefs and customs is essential to any effective strategy of AIDS treatment. Overturning many of our assumptions on disease prevention, the book is essential reading for practitioners as well as researchers in global health, anthropology, sociology, epidemiology and scholars interested in public health and administration in sub-Saharan Africa.

In the Shadow of the American Dream

Author : David Wojnarowicz
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480489603
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of the American Dream written by David Wojnarowicz and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From life in the streets and love in the alleys to fame in the spotlight and an untimely death—raw, biting, and brilliant selections from the personal journals of one of the most uniquely creative artists of the late twentieth century When his life ended at age thirty-seven—a casualty of the AIDS epidemic that took so many before their time—David Wojnarowicz had long since established himself as one of America’s most vital artists and activists. In the Shadow of the American Dream is a stunning collection of riveting and revealing chapters from Wojnarowicz’s extensive personal diaries—thirty volumes’ worth of memories and lucid observations, some bitter, some sweet—that the author began writing when he was seventeen and continued until his death two decades later. Here is a brilliant chronicle of an artist’s emergence—a young man’s still achingly fresh memories of his unhappy adolescence and his glorious discovery of self. Wojnarowicz recalls his life on Manhattan’s Lower East Side with no shame or regret, and shares his hitchhiking journeys across the country. He talks of art and love and sex—embracing who he is fully and accepting his heartbreaking fate without pathos—while providing fascinating glimpses into the vibrant and colorful New York art scene and poignant views of life and death among the AIDS community. At once frightening and courageous, joyous and disturbing, enlightening and honest, In the Shadow of the American Dream is a treasured addition to the enduring literary legacy of David Wojnarowicz and a true testament to his unique brilliance.

Shadow Song

Author : Maurine Speer Georgiades
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781880451236
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Shadow Song written by Maurine Speer Georgiades and published by . This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

White Nights and Ascending Shadows

Author : Benjamin Heim Shepard
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 : 9780304701261
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book White Nights and Ascending Shadows written by Benjamin Heim Shepard and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1997 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the world, people have created a movement to fight AIDS. San Francisco's contribution to this fight grew out of the Gay Liberation Movement. The San Francisco AIDS story is a tale of how gay rights became human rights.

Up, Up, and Away!

Author : Heather Zschock
Publisher : Peter Pauper Press
ISBN 13 : 9781441306333
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Up, Up, and Away! written by Heather Zschock and published by Peter Pauper Press. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let little ones wing their way to sleep with this uplifting bedtime book! Shine the beam of a flashlight (not included) through 7 transparent page ''windows'' to cast silhouette pictures on the wall as you read lyrical rhymes about a kite's journey up, up, and away--past birds, planes, clouds, and more. Ages 3 to 9. 6-3/8'' wide x 9'' high. Covered wire-o-bound hardcover.

A Shadow's Tale

Author : Jennifer Hanlon
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782791353
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book A Shadow's Tale written by Jennifer Hanlon and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Shadow's Tale is an Urban Fantasy/Bildungsroman that follows the life of a half-demon girl as she comes to terms with who she is. The life of one of every two half demons is controlled by prophecy. The more powerful the demonic parent, the more impact the prophecy has on the hybrid’s life. When the half-demon race wilfully became extinct, certain prophecies were deemed never to come to pass. They were wrong. Shadow has to learn how to cope with who she is, how to deal with people who won't accept her half-demon status, and what her future has in store for her. ,