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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.
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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.
From Library Journal
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.
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dark eros, queer men, gay body, gay spirit, queer life, queer people, scary monsters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Young and Evil (Arno Series on Homosexuality) by Charles Henri Ford on page 157, and Back Matter
- Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement by Mark Thompson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Revised Edition by Alice Miller in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Dictionary of Symbols by J. E. Cirlot in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Tom of Finland by Hooven in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Coming Out Spiritually: The Next Step by Christian de la Huerta in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Bears on Bears: Interviews and Discussions by Ron Jackson Suresha on page 224, and Back Matter
- The End of Gay: And the Death of Heterosexuality by Bert Archer in Back Matter
- The End of Gay: (And the Death of Heterosexuality) by Bert Archer in Back Matter
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