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Book Synopsis Homosexuality, A.I.D.S and Voodoo by : Pittman
Download or read book Homosexuality, A.I.D.S and Voodoo written by Pittman and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you want excitement then this is the book for you! You get first hand knowledge about what went on in the very neighborhood where Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated. If you want to laugh, read about Ray and his friends teenage adventures as they meander their way through the rough and tough streets of Memphis Tennessee before Beale St. was safe to visit. The story takes a dramatic turn as Ray describes spousal abuse, and how he dealt with being bullied by the kids much tougher than him. Homosexuality, was viewed very different in the 70's and 80's, so when the family finally faces the reality that two of their family members were gay it adds to the intrigue of reading this first hand account. Where does the Voodoo come in? Read the entire book and you will find out!
Book Synopsis Homosexuality, A.I.D.S and Voodoo by : Wintrell Pittman
Download or read book Homosexuality, A.I.D.S and Voodoo written by Wintrell Pittman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homosexuality, A.I.D.S and VooDoo, is the true to life story of the Jackson family, growing up in Memphis, TN during the 60s and the 70s. Their lives were just as turbulent as the turmoil during the Civil Rights movement. The main Character Ray, tells the story of the brutal rape of his older brother Jerome, and the shock of learning that his younger brother Lawrence was also gay. Most interesting is the fact that Lawrence was also the victim of demon possession as well as being infected with A.I.D.S. Reading this book will take you from one dramatic moment to another. Yet this is an inspirational story of triumph against all odds. See how Ray used, his faith in God to help his entire family make it through a maze of seemingly over whelming situations. This story, will make you laugh, cry and feel inspired!
Book Synopsis Risk and 'The Other' by : Hélène Joffé
Download or read book Risk and 'The Other' written by Hélène Joffé and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-29 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From earthquakes to epidemics, AIDS to industrial accidents, the mass media continually bring into our daily lives the awareness of risk. But how do people respond to this increased awareness? How do people cope with living in what has been termed 'the risk society'? This book attempts to explain how, within a given social and cultural context, individuals make sense of impending crisis. In particular it tries to explain the phenomenon of a widespread sense of personal invulnerability when faced with risk: the 'not me' factor. Using a social psychological framework it highlights emotional factors which are a key component of responses to risk but have hitherto been neglected due to the tendency of much work on risk to concentrate almost exclusively on cognitive processing. This book will appeal to an international audience of post-graduates, academics and researchers in the areas of risk, psychology, sociology, medical anthropology and psychoanalytic studies.
Book Synopsis Spells of a Voodoo Doll by : Assotto Saint
Download or read book Spells of a Voodoo Doll written by Assotto Saint and published by Richard Kasak Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection features the fierce, spellbinding poetry, lyrics, essays, and performance texts of Assotto Saint--one of the most important voices in the renaissance of black gay writing--winner of the 1991 Lambda Literary Award for The Road Before Us: 100 Gay Black Poets. "Angelic and brazen".--Jewelle Gomez.
Book Synopsis Partner to the Poor by : Paul Farmer
Download or read book Partner to the Poor written by Paul Farmer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dr. Paul Farmer is one of the most extraordinary people I've ever known. Partner to the Poor recounts his relentless efforts to eradicate disease, humanize health care, alleviate poverty, and increase opportunity and empowerment in the developing world. It will inspire us all to do our parts."--William J. Clinton "If the world is curious about Paul Farmer, there is a reason for that. No one has done more than he has in bringing modern medicine to the poor across the globe and no one has exceeded him in making us appreciate the diverse barriers that prevent proper medicine from reaching the underdogs of the world. In this wonderful collection of essays, putting together Paul Farmer's writings over more than two decades, we can see how his far-reaching ideas have developed and radically enhanced the understanding of the challenges faced by healthcare in the uneven world in which we live. This is an altogether outstanding book."--Amartya Sen, Nobel Laureate, Economics "To delve into these pages is to join one of the world's great explorers on an epic life journey--to grapple with culture, poverty, disease, health care, ethics, and ultimately our common humanity in the Age of AIDS. Paul Farmer is a pioneer, guide, and inspiration at a time of unprecedented contrasts: between wealth and poverty, power and powerlessness, health and disease, compassion and neglect. His medical expertise, anthropological vision, and unflinching decency have helped to recharge our world with moral purpose."--Jeffrey D. Sachs, Columbia University "Wow! Perfect for teaching. This is more than vintage Farmer. Editor Haun Saussy knows Farmer's work inside out and has assembled and organized 25 classic articles that project the heart of Farmer's brilliant, radical, inspiring, eminently practical and (dare I say) genuinely subversive work."--Philippe Bourgois, author of Righteous Dopefiend "If they gave Nobel Prizes for raising moral awareness, Paul Farmer would have won his a long time ago. For several decades now, his work has posed a challenge to anyone who dares say that radically improving the health of the world's poor can't be done. This splendid compilation of the best of his work allows us to follow a restless, creative, compassionate mind in action, in and out of prisons and barrios and mud huts and hospital wards, from Haiti to Rwanda to Moscow, never taking 'no' for an answer."--Adam Hochschild, author of Bury the Chains "Paul Farmer is a deep scholar of Haitian society, a formidable medical anthropologist, an implacable theorist of structural violence and health as a human right, and an ethicist for whom the place of social justice in medicine and in the world is an existential need. This book is the platform of interconnected intellectual, academic, and practical engagements upon which the amazing, world-transforming life of Farmer stands."--Arthur Kleinman, author of What Really Matters: Living a Moral Life amidst Uncertainty and Danger "This collection shows the impressive catalytic effects of original scholarship when combined with action, activism, and a commitment to social justice in health. Paul Farmer and his PIH colleagues have twice changed World Health Organization policies; they continue to have a lasting impact on the global health movement and on the lives of the poor.--Peter Brown, Emory University
Book Synopsis Material Discourses of Health and Illness by : Lucy Yardley
Download or read book Material Discourses of Health and Illness written by Lucy Yardley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Material Discourses of Health and Illness applies discursive approaches to the field of health psychology, in stark contrast to the bio-medical model of health and illness. The discursive approach uses the person's experience and feelings as the central focus of interest, whereas the more traditional models regarded these as coincidental and relatively unimportant. The book provides an accessible and compelling introduction to social constructionist and discursive approaches to those with limited previous knowledge of socio-linguistic theory and research. It provides practical examples of how these approaches can be applied to the field of health psychology with a collection of sophisticated discursive analyses which demonstrate the distinctive contribution that can be made by psychologists to a field that has been largely dominated by sociologists and anthropologists.
Book Synopsis The Greenwood Encyclopedia of LGBT Issues Worldwide [3 volumes] by : Chuck Stewart
Download or read book The Greenwood Encyclopedia of LGBT Issues Worldwide [3 volumes] written by Chuck Stewart and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-12-18 with total page 1345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set has an ambitious scope with the goal of offering the most up-to-date international overview of key issues in the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. HIV/AIDS has been a major media focus, but this set fosters a broader understanding of the status of LGBT individuals in their society. More than 70 countries are represented. The clear, accessible prose is appropriate for high school student research on up. The material is especially needed in a cultural climate that increasingly supports and requires information about LGBT populations. The content is useful for a paper on a hot topic, health classes, discussion groups, and gay-straight alliance groups.
Book Synopsis The Evans Symposium by : Arthur Evans
Download or read book The Evans Symposium written by Arthur Evans and published by White Crane Books. This book was released on 2018-11-25 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1975 Arthur Evans presented a series of lectures based on his research into LGBT history and cultural roots in European societies of the medieval era. That became Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture. The remaining materials that had been in the original book have been gathered into a sequel of sorts called Moon Lady Rising.
Book Synopsis Gay Witchcraft by : Christopher Penczak
Download or read book Gay Witchcraft written by Christopher Penczak and published by Weiser Books. This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Christopher Penczak was introduced to Witchcraft, he found a spiritual path that hononred and embraced his homosexuality. Now he has written a book of clearheaded theory and practice that is bound to become a classic. With Gay Witchcraft, Penczak joins the ranks of his forebearers in spirit, gay writers who have taken a tradition and made it home. This is a complete book of theory and spiritual practices of Witchcraft for the gay community. Penczak's writing will make it much easier for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people interested in practicing any form of Witchcraft. Exploring the history of Paganism and offering a compendium of spells, meditations, ceremonies, and affirmations that will enrich both the novice and the experienced practioner seeking out new views of myth, ritual, and healing.
Book Synopsis How to Find a Good Spouse by : Wintrell Pittman
Download or read book How to Find a Good Spouse written by Wintrell Pittman and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-01-09 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How To Find A Good Spouse, gives readers a simple and spiritual approach to finding a suitable mate. The information contained in this book will make this over whelming process a lot smoother. Minister Pittman uses his own experiences, as well as the experiences and widsom which others have shared with him in the past to put together this great work of wisdom and instruction. Reading this book will assure readers that God is alive and well and working in the lives of those who are believers. In todays times, finding a good spouse is much more complicated than ever before. People are meeting potential mates, online, and through dating services, as well as other unconventional ways. It does not matter which of these outlets you use, the formula for finding your true soul mate as contained in this book should still work. Minister Wintrell Pittman shares with his audience a system which has worked for him and others for a number of years; and now here is your chance to allow this system to work for you also.
Book Synopsis AIDS and Accusation by : Paul Farmer
Download or read book AIDS and Accusation written by Paul Farmer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book ethnographic, historical and epidemiologic data are brought to bear on the subject of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Haiti. The forces that have helped to determine rates and pattern of spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) are examined, as are social responses to AIDS in rural and urban Haiti, and in parts of North America. History and its calculus of economic and symbolic power also help to explain why residents of a small village in rural Haiti came to understand AIDS in the manner that they did. Drawing on several years of fieldwork, the evolution of a cultural model of AIDS is traced. In a small village in rural Haiti, it was possible to document first the lack of such a model, and then the elaboration over time of a widely shared representation of AIDS. The experience of three villagers who died of complications of AIDS is examined in detail, and the importance of their suffering to the evolution of a cultural model is demonstrated. Epidemiologic and ethnographic studies are prefaced by a geographically broad historical analysis, which suggests the outlines of relations between a powerful center (the United States) and a peripheral client state (Haiti). These relations constitute an important part of a political-economic network termed the "West Atlantic system." The epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in Haiti and elsewhere in the Caribbean is reviewed, and the relation between the degree of involvement in the West Atlantic system and the prevalence of HIV is suggested. It is further suggested that the history of HIV in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Bahamas is similar to that documented here for Haiti.
Book Synopsis Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture by : Arthur Evans
Download or read book Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture written by Arthur Evans and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Federal Response to AIDS by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Intergovernmental Relations and Human Resources Subcommittee
Download or read book Federal Response to AIDS written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Intergovernmental Relations and Human Resources Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Gay Wicca Book by : Bruce K. Wilborn
Download or read book The Gay Wicca Book written by Bruce K. Wilborn and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unique approach to the Wiccan religion, Bruce K. Wilborn shares his own experience of coming out. He explains how his discovery of Wicca was essential in his process of self-acceptance and passage into a welcoming and non-judgmental religion that has become the core of his spiritual life over the past 16 years.
Book Synopsis Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions by : Randy P Lundschien Conner
Download or read book Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions written by Randy P Lundschien Conner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What roles do queer and transgender people play in the African diasporic religions? Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Participation in African-Inspired Traditions in the Americas is a groundbreaking scholarly exploration of this long-neglected subject. It offers clear insight into the complex dynamics of gender and sexual orientation, humans and deities, and race and ethnicity, within these richly nuanced spiritual practices. Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions explores the ways in which gender complexity and same-sex intimacy are integral to the primary beliefs and practices of these faiths. It begins with a comprehensive overview of Vodou, Santeria, and other African-based religions. The second section includes extensive, revealing interviews with practitioners who offer insight into the intersection of their beliefs, their sexual orientation, and their gender identity. Finally, it provides a powerful analysis of the ways these traditions have inspired artists, musicians, and writers such as Audre Lorde, as well as informative interviews with the artists themselves. In Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions, you will discover: how the presence of androgynous divinities affects both faith and practice in Vodou, Candomble, Santeria, and other Creole religions how the phenomenon of possession or embodiment by a god or goddess may validate queer identity and nurture gender complexity who practices the African-derived spiritual traditions, what they believe, and who their deities are how these faiths have influenced the art and aesthetic traditions of the West This landmark book opens a fascinating new world of thought and belief. The authors provide rigorous documentation and faultless scholarly method as well as personal experience and the testimony of believers. Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions sheds new light on two widely different fields: LGBT studies and the theology of the African diaspora. A thorough bibliography points the way to further study, and an extensive photograph gallery provides a unique look at the believers and their practices. Every library with holdings in queer theory, African mythology, or sociology of religion should have this landmark volume.
Book Synopsis AIDS and the Social Sciences by : Richard Ulack
Download or read book AIDS and the Social Sciences written by Richard Ulack and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though more than 150,000 AIDS-related deaths have been reported worldwide and between 5 and 10 million people are now infected with its precursor, HIV-1, the deadly and relatively new AIDS virus is still a mystery. AIDS and the Social Sciences: Common Threads, an enlightening examination of the AIDS epidemic from the viewpoints of various social sciences, provides us with clues to that mystery. The essays' original research and firsthand accounts from social scientists offer an excellent overview of the research agendas and directions for a disease that is an increasing presence in our society. Sociologists, geographers, anthropologists, psychologists, social workers, and people in government agencies converge in this book to discuss the social, political, economic, legal, moral, and ethical issues related to AIDS. Their methods of approaching the study of AIDS range from a case study approach to survey research to participant observation. Among the topics examined in this distinctive collection are the geographic origins of AIDS, the psychosocial aspects of AIDS, the impact of AIDS on women and children, and the federal funding patterns of AIDS-related research. One chapter traces the diffusion of the pandemic in major urban areas, smaller cities, and finally rural America. Another documents the devastating impact the disease has had on central and East Africa, some areas of which have as many as one in four adults who are HIV-infected. AIDS and the Social Sciences could serve as a primary or supplemental text for college courses and is an important resource for anyone interested in social science or public health.
Book Synopsis Victory Deferred by : John-Manuel Andriote
Download or read book Victory Deferred written by John-Manuel Andriote and published by . This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on hundreds of original interviews and extensive research, Victory Deferred chronicles the impact of the AIDS epidemic in the United States on the nation's hard-hit gay community. The book shows how AIDS transformed individual lives and major medical institutions, and built the gay civil rights movement.
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