| Description |
vi, 447 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1 Quite contrary: Lesbian and gay psychology in the antipodes 1 -- Damien W. Riggs & Gordon A. Walker -- 2 Queer goings-on: A genealogy of lesbian and gay psychology 24 -- Gary Rogers & Adrian Booth -- PART I -- Working together: Accountability and reflexivity in practice -- 3 Queer on the inside: Interviews with lesbian and gay staff of 52 -- public mental health services in Aotearoa/New Zealand -- David Semp -- 4 'The unintended use of a pronoun': Coming out in the 85 -- counselling environment -- Graeme Kane -- 5 Out of the closet and onto the couch: Towards gay-affirming 97 -- psychological practice -- Adrian Booth & Gary Rogers -- PART II -- Negotiating relationships: Parenting and families as dynamic practices -- 6 Living with contradictions: Experiences of same-sex attracted 124 -- men within heterosexual marriage -- Daryl J. Higgins -- 7 Baby love: Gay donor father narratives of intimacy 146 -- Paul van Reyk -- 8 Moving on out: The issues and experiences of nonresident 167 -- gay fathers -- Dom Violi -- PART III -- Shaping 'healthy bodies': Public and private discourses -- 9 The drug use patterns of heterosexual and non-heterosexual 192 -- young women: Data from the Women's Health Australia Study -- Lynne Hillier, Richard de Visser, Anne Kavanagh & -- Ruth McNair -- 10 Framing gay men's health: A critical review of policy 212 -- documents -- Jeffery Adams, Virginia Braun & Timothy McCreanor -- 11 Understanding cultural differences in safe-sex behaviour: 247 -- The experience of gay Asian Australians -- Jennifer M. Boldero -- PART IV -- Challenging identities: Coming out of heterosexist binaries -- 12 Sexual orientation, culture and the construction of gay and 276 -- lesbian identities -- Vivienne Cass -- 13 Narratives of coming out: Developing understandings of 306 -- same sex identifications. -- Heidi Jansen -- 14 Sacred and profane: A crisis of identity for gay Catholic 336 -- priests. -- Jane Power & Barry Fallon -- PART V -- The politics of lesbian and gay psychology -- 15 Dental dams: A parody of straight expectations in the 368 -- promotion of 'safer' lesbian sex -- Sara MacBride-Stewart -- 16 Problematising gender and sexual identities 392 -- Valerie Harwood & Mary Lou Rasmussen -- 17 Talking about heterosexism: Politics, complicity and 416 -- identification -- Damien W. Riggs & Lauren D. Riggs -- List of contributors 435 |
| Summary |
Out in the Antipodes is the long awaited addition to the literature on lesbian and gay psychology. The first book in this field to specifically address Australian and New Zealand perspectives, it highlights the diversity and richness of lesbian and gay experience in the antipodes |
| Analysis |
Gay & Lesbian studies (Australia) |
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Social psychology (Australia) |
| Notes |
Cover title |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Homosexuality -- Psychological aspects.
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Homosexuality -- New Zealand.
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Homosexuality -- Australia.
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Gays -- New Zealand -- Psychology.
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Gays -- Australia -- Psychology.
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Lesbians -- New Zealand -- Psychology.
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Lesbians -- Australia -- Psychology.
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Gays -- Mental health services -- New Zealand.
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Gays -- Mental health services -- Australia.
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Lesbians -- Mental health services -- New Zealand.
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Lesbians -- Mental health services -- Australia.
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| Author |
Walker, Gordon.
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Riggs, Damien
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| LC no. |
2005412057 |
| ISBN |
0975077716 paperback |
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