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Gay Body: A Journey Through Shadow To Self (Stonewall Inn Editions) [Paperback]

Mark Thompson (Author)
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Stonewall Inn Editions March 15, 1999
The spiritual journey to adulthood is, for most gay men, particularly difficult. In an electrifying mix of theory and autobiography, Mark Thompson explores the stages of healing and recovery that men can experience if they dare to take the path leading to a fully integrated body and spirit. In his own life, he details the experience of growing up gay in a dysfunctional family, the heady days of the early 1970s in San Francisco, and his attempts to heal himself--from the fairy circles to the deepest reaches of the leather movement.

Intermixed is an explanation of archetypes and how they function in gay man's life, the roles that they assume, the dangers that they hold, and the lessons that must be learned for each gay man to heal his own gay soul, spirit, and body.

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Mark Thompson's Gay Body: A Journey Through Shadow to Self is a remarkable personal account of what it means to possess, or live in, a gay body in the world today. But this book is not about body building, AIDS, or even simple physical health. In Gay Body Thompson takes one of the most profound questions of Western philosophy--how do we unite our corporeality with our emotional and spiritual selves--and meditates on it from a uniquely gay male perspective. Using gay liberation philosophy, Jungian psychology, radical fairy thought, and his own experiences with drugs, S&M, and transgressive sexuality, Thompson has created a work that mixes autobiography with theory in an attempt to discover how gay men can find their fullest potential, their truest selves. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Having already chronicled gay male spirituality, history, and mythopoeia (in e.g., Gay Soul, LJ 12/94), Thompson now explores the gay male psyche. He seamlessly weaves an unsparingly candid autobiographical narrative with broader observations, drawing on elements of Jungian stereotypes, gay history and mythology, and New Age spirituality. He advises that by confronting the psychic wounds that he calls the "Gay Shadow," gay men can reclaim themselves from the crushing familial and social forces they face. "Redemption does not lie outside ourselves, but in finding our truth and strength within....We queer men must father ourselves." Despite Thompson's forceful yet elegant prose, the density of the material often obscures his points. Still, this provocative work is a necessary purchase for academic and gay studies and human sexuality collections, as well as larger public libraries.?Richard Violette, Social Law Lib., Boston
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Stonewall Inn Editions; 1st edition (March 15, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312198868
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312198862
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,684,125 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Enlightening, delightful read, April 14, 1999
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This review is from: Gay Body: A Journey Through Shadow To Self (Stonewall Inn Editions) (Paperback)
Mark's assessment of how gay men grow, evolve, and eventually survive in the world is right-on. Gay Body is an incredibly well written account, full of poetic and historical references that have been all too often left out of contemporary accounts of male homosexuality. Gay men have a rich and varied cultural history that Mark so vividly recreates in his book.

It's not very often that I pick-up a book and read it right through without putting it down; Thompson's Gay Body was an exception.

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First Sentence:
I stand naked in front of a mirror and study my body. Read the first page
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