Research Catalog

Title

Affirmation, care ethics, and LGBT identity / Tim R. Johnston.

Author

Johnston, Tim R.,

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

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Holdings

Details

Description

1 online resource (vii, 107 pages).

Summary

In this book, Johnston argues that affirmation is not only encouragement or support, but also the primary mechanism we use to form our identities and create safe spaces. Using the work of feminist care ethics and the thinking of French philosopher Henri Bergson to examine responses to school bullying and abuses faced by LGBT older adults, he provides the theoretical analysis and practical tools LGBT people and their allies need to make all spaces, public and private, spaces in which we can live openly as members of the LGBT community. With its combination of philosophical theory and on-the-ground activist experience, this text will be useful to anyone interested in philosophy, women's and gender studies, psychology, aging, geriatrics, and LGBT activism.

Series Statement

Palgrave pivot

Uniform Title

Palgrave pivot.

Subject

• Affirmations
• Affirmations
• Gender Identity
• POLITICAL SCIENCE > Cultural Policy
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > Cultural
• SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture
• Sexual and Gender Minorities
• Sexual minorities > Identity
• Sexual minorities > Identity

Genre/Form

Electronic books.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: The Need for Affirming Spaces -- Chapter One: Affirmation and Care Ethics -- Chapter Two: Embodied Memory and Fluid Mobility -- Chapter Three: Affirmation and Adolescent Bullying. -- Chapter Four: LGBT Aging and Elder Abuse -- Conclusion -- Works Cited.

ISBN

• 9781137593047
• 1137593040
• 113759408X
• 9781137594082
• 9781137594082 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

9781137594082

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library