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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Too Far Away to Touch
by Leslea Newman This is a beautifully done, quiet tale that will be meaningful to all children who have lost a beloved relative to any illness, but especially to AIDS. |
Parenting Sexually Healthy Kids
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It's So Amazing: A Book About Eggs, Sperm, Birth, Babies, and Families
by Robie H. Harris The creators of It's Perfectly Normal, targeted to middle-schoolers, here reach out to a slightly younger audience with candor and humor, neatly distilling various aspects of sex, reproduction and love. |
Sex
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The Survivor's Guide to Sex: How to Have an Empowered Sex Life After Child Sexual Abuse
by Staci Haines Based on the author's extensive training and experience in working with abuse survivors, The Survivor's Guide to Sex offers an affirming, sex-positive approach to recovery from incest and rape. While most books on the topic broach sexuality only to reassure women that it is alright to say "no" to unwanted sex, this one encourages women to learn how to say "yes" to their own desires and on their own terms. |
GLBT Issues
| n/a | Saturday Is Pattyday
by Leslea Newman Newman tells a story of how a child feels when his two mommies separate and break up the family. |
Body Image
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The Male Body : A New Look at Men in Public and in Private
by Susan Bordo Men's (and women's) ideas about men's bodies are heavily influenced by society's expectations, and Bordo helps us understand where those ideas come from. |
Women's Sexual Health
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Dr. Susan Love's Menopause and Hormone Book: Making Informed Choices
by Susan M. Love, M.D. and Karen Lindsey In this revised edition, Dr. Love offers a remarkably clear set of guidelines as to what the studies have shown about the risks regarding heart disease, breast cancer, stroke, and other conditions, and what effect hormone therapy has on osteoporosis. |
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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Listen Up 2 Ed: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation
by Barbara Findlen, Editor This lively anthology counters the notion that feminism is on the wane. Findlen, managing editor of Ms. magazine, offers a collection of essays by young feminists, part of a generation that wrestles with a broad range of issues from race and sexual orientation to maternity. |