Queer: What a Queer Booknook
Here are some samples of what is in our book store. Click on a title to order, or click on the “all from this category” link to browse through more of our offerings.
Sex Education for Educators
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Teaching for Social Justice: A Democracy and Education Reader
by William Ayers, Jean Ann Hunt and Therese Quinn, Editors Teaching for Social Justice engages parents, citizens, students, and teachers in a conversation about education in a democracy. |
Sex Education for Youth
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My Feelings, My Self: A Growing-Up Journal for Girls, Second Edition (What's Happening to My Body? Series)
by Lynda Madaras with Area Madaras them. Why don't my parents ever listen to me? Can I tell a boy that I like him? How do I say "no" to friends when they want me to do things I don't want to? Answers to these questions and more are what's in this fun- and fact-filled book as well as quizzes, exercises, stories and letters from kids expressing feelings about the changes going on in their lives during adolescence. |
Parenting Sexually Healthy Kids
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Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook : Creating and Raising Our Families
by April Martin A much needed book that addresses the many questions and important issues associated with lesbian and gay parenting, by a well-known psychotherapist and lesbian parent. |
Sex
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The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex: The Most Complete Sex Manual Ever Written
by Cathy Winks and Anne Semans Over 100,000 women and men women around the world keep this classic sex manual on their bedside tables. Recommended by medical professionals, sex therapists, and sexual enthusiasts who know that when it comes to sex, there is power in information. |
GLBT Issues
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Lessons from the Intersexed
by Suzanne J. Kessler As Kessler argues, the way the medical and psychological professions manage intersexuality - the condition of having physical gender markers (genitals, gonads, or chromosomes) that are neither clearly female or male - is guided by our culture's beliefs about gender and genitals rather than by the needs of the child. |
Body Image
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A Hunger So Wide and So Deep: American Women Speak Out on Eating Problems
by Becky W. Thompson This book describes how the theory that eating disorders affect only white, middle-class femals is incorrect, and examines the different ways eating disorders affect women from different backgrounds. |
Women's Sexual Health
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NEW OURSELVES, GROWING OLDER : REVISED AND UPDATED
by Paula B. Doress-Worters and Diana Laskin Siegal This new and revised edition of the bestselling Ourselves, Growing Older includes new chapters on menopause and reform of the medical care system as well as extensive updates on housing issues, HIV/AIDS, cosmetic surgery, and breast cancer. |
Men's Sexual Health
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Wrestling with Love
by Samuel Osherson, Ph.D. In Wrestling with Love, psychologist Sam Osherson, author of the highly acclaimed Finding Our Fathers, reveals how men in our culture struggle to achieve intimacy in their relationships, even as strong messages about masculinity demand that they hide their desire for attachments. |
Miscellaneous
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The Commercialization of Intimate Life : Notes from Home and Work
by Arlie Russell Hothschild Hothschild's influential, unusually perceptive work has opened up new ways of seeing family life, love, gender, the workplace, market transactions--indeed, American life itself. |