Author : Jeanne Arnold
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN :
Grandma Bonnie, who has been in a lesbian relationship for more than twenty years, explains to Amy about gay pride and being a lesbian.
Author : Frances A. Day
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 32,67 MB
Release : 2000-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0313095442
With a foreword by Nancy Garden, the highly acclaimed author of Young Adult Fiction, this thoughtfully written annotated bibliography reviews picture books, young adult fiction, short stories nonfiction works and biographies for young readers. Entries specify the age level appropriateness of each work as well as literary awards received for the work. Each annotation is followed by a list of topics in the work which the user will find cross-referenced in the topic index. With additional recommendations on books for librarians, educators and parents, and a set of suggested guidelines for evaluating books, this user-friendly guide is valuable as both a reader resource and as collection development tool. The guide also provides author profiles of selected writers who have made outstanding contributions to this field of literature. This information is complemented by inspiring author quotes, photographs, and lists of their books categorized by age level appropriateness. The up-to-date information on helpful resources for teens and their families found here along with a select bibliography and additional indices make this comprehensive guide a powerful and important reference tool for helping young gay and lesbian readers.
Author : Jan Anthony
Publisher : Mother Courage Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 15,67 MB
Release : 2024-09-29
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN :
I’ll be a key to help you unlock the door to your side of that closet. In Being Mother Courage, Bea and Jan become the visibly out local lesbians with their feminist bookstore. With parents passing and ex-husbands getting the kids, Jan and Bea create women’s groups and Goddess circles. They boldly confront the loss of Jan’s cherished Door County land and her continuing job harassment despite her successes. Humorous misadventures ride with them along Door County’s precious land. Florida’s Atlantic Ocean tests their scuba-diving skills. Mexico’s road to and from Chichen Itza requires some spunk. After they get a two-page manuscript, they illustrate, design, publish and promote Something Happened to Me, their children’s sexual abuse book, which goes international and relocates their dream. Bea moves out of the confines of the local bookstore to sell their book to the world. Being Mother Courage is Book Four. * * * * * In The Whistling Girls & Crowing Hens Series, two straight married women risk families and careers, leave society’s compulsory heterosexuality in 1972, and boldly survive in an uncharted, intimate relationship. Jan and Bea experience historic events in the women’s movement and gay/lesbian world in their thirty-nine years together. Each book presents deeper levels on major topics and adventures.
Author : Jamie Campbell Naidoo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
Release : 2012-04-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1598849611
As one of the only highly praised resources on this important topic, this thoughtfully compiled book examines and suggests picture books and chapter books presenting LGBTQ content to children under the age of 12. Highlighting titles for children from infancy to age 11, Rainbow Family Collections examines over 250 children's picture books, informational books, and chapter books with LGBTQ content from around the world. Each entry in Rainbow Family Collections supplies a synopsis of the title's content, lists awards it has received, cites professional reviews, and provides suggestions for librarians considering acquisition. The book also provides a brief historical overview of LGBTQ children's literature along with the major book awards for this genre, tips on planning welcoming spaces and offering effective library service to this population, and a list of criteria for selecting the best books with this content. Interviews with authors and key individuals in LGBTQ children's book publishing are also featured.
Author : Jennifer Miller
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 43,97 MB
Release : 2022-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1496840038
In The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books, Jennifer Miller identifies an archive of over 150 English-language children’s picture books that explicitly represent LGBTQ+ identities, expressions, and issues. This archive is then analyzed to explore the evolution of LGBTQ+ characters and content from the 1970s to the present. Miller describes dominant tropes that emerge in the field to analyze historical shifts in representational practices, which she suggests parallel larger sociocultural shifts in the visibility of LGBTQ+ identities. Additionally, Miller considers material constraints and possibilities affecting the production, distribution, and consumption of LGBTQ+ children’s picture books from the 1970s to the present. This foundational work defines the field of LGBTQ+ children’s picture books thoroughly, yet accessibly. In addition to laying the groundwork for further research, The Transformative Potential of LGBTQ+ Children’s Picture Books presents a reading lens, critical optimism, used to analyze the transformative potential of LGBTQ+ children’s picture books. Many texts remain attached to heteronormative family forms and raced and classed models of success. However, by considering what these books put into the world, as well as problematic aspects of the world reproduced within them, Miller argues that LGBTQ+ children’s picture books are an essential world-making project and seek to usher in a transformed world as well as a significant historical archive that reflects material and representational shifts in dominant and subcultural understandings of gender and sexuality.
Author : Meg Hickling
Publisher : Wood Lake Publishing Inc.
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,87 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1896836704
Whether your child is 3 and asking questions about bodies and sex and babies, or thirteen and facing difficult decisions and concerns about their own sexuality, this book is for you. With sensitivity, honesty, and a good deal of humour, Meg Hickling addresses the real questions she has been asked during her 20-plus years spent working with children of all ages. This book provides practical, up-to-date no-nonsense suggestions and encouragement for parents addressing sexuality and sexual health issues with their children. Updated and reorganised, this new edition provides the same great age-appropriate information as the best-selling first edition.
Author : Ellen C. Perrin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 30,97 MB
Release : 2007-05-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0306476436
Sexual Orientation in Child and Adolescent Health Care serves as a resource for child health care professionals including pediatricians, family physicians, nurses, pediatric psychologists, child and adolescent psychiatrists, and social workers. The issues of sexuality and sexual orientation now generate great interest among those who treat children. This volume describes the effects of stigmatization on non-heterosexual physicians, patients, and students, and discusses a variety of clinically relevant topics including the development of sexual orientations, children of gay or lesbian parents, young children with gender atypical behavior, and the healthcare needs of gay and lesbian adolescents. The last two chapters describe methods for improvement in medical education and medical care, and provide extensive resources available to professionals and consumers.
Author : Jane Sunderland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 39,48 MB
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441182985
This is an original, scholarly yet accessible contribution to the field of children's fiction. It focuses on gender in relation to children's fiction and the role that language plays in this relationship. Girls' and boys' reading itself is looked at, as well as the books that they encounter - including the Harry Potter series, Louis Sachar's prizewinning Holes, fairy tales and school reading schemes. The book treats fiction as fiction, using as its guiding principles the multimodality of much children's fiction; that fiction is almost always dialogic; that the feminist movement has had considerable influence on textual representations of women, men, boys and girls and that language (including what the characters say, and how, and what is said about them) is a key to the different readings of fictional texts. This will be a valuable resource for researchers in and students of linguistics, language studies and English literature.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 24,6 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Feminist literature
ISBN :
Author : Janet Folger
Publisher : Multnomah
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,71 MB
Release : 2009-02-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0307563405
There is a war going on for the future of our country. Most people know that. What they may not know is that if Christians lose, the result won’t merely be enduring public policy we disagree with—it will be a prison sentence for those who oppose it. We’ve all seen the attack coming. First the Supreme Court said kids can’t pray in school. Then the Ten Commandments were ripped from the classrooms. Now pastors are being removed from their pulpits and put in jail for speaking out against homosexuality (Sweden). And things are only getting worse. How in the world did we get to this place? And why is it that Christians are singled out in this assault on morality? Serving as a wake-up call for America, this book will expose the truth that Christianity is being criminalized—and that we must stand up against it now . People in New York are fired from their jobs. Kids in California are suspended from school. Pastors in Sweden are sentenced to prison. Their crime involves nothing more than exercising their religious freedoms. At first the attacks against Christianity were subtle. The Supreme Court ruled that children can’t pray in school. The Ten Commandments were removed from our classrooms and, later, our courtrooms. Now pastors are being imprisoned for speaking out against homosexuality from their own pulpits. How in the world did we get to this place in a “free” and civilized society? And how far will it go? While headlines reveal a gradual undermining of moral values in our society, the truth between those lines silently screams that our very freedom is at stake. Now this provocative book exposes the attack on values for what it is: a pointed war being waged against Christians and the faith they profess. A frequent guest on such programs as 20/20, Hannity and Colmes, Hardball, and Inside Politics, conservative advocate Janet Folger uncovers the hidden anti-Christian agendas that are driving public policy, key court decisions, public school regulations, political correctness in the media, and modern-day censorship. The question is, how will you respond? At a time when upholding traditional values has somehow become synonymous with “intolerance,” will you rise up and defend your religious freedoms —before it’s too late?
