Christianity and the Limits of Minority Acceptance in America: God Loves (Almost) Everyone (Breaking Boundaries: New Horizons in Gender & Sexualities)

This book explores the ways Christian women in college make sense of bisexual, transgender, polyamorous, and atheist others. Specifically, it explores the ways they express tolerance for some sexual groups, such as lesbian and gay people, while maintaining condemnation of other sexual, gendered, or religious groups. In so doing, this book highlights the limits of Christian tolerance for the advancement of minority rights.

History

Sumerau, J. E.

Cragun, Ryan T.

World

Lexington Books

This book explores the ways Christian women in college make sense of bisexual, transgender, polyamorous, and atheist others. Specifically, it explores the ways they express tolerance for some sexual groups, such as lesbian and gay people, while maintaining condemnation of other sexual, gendered, or religious groups. In so doing, this book highlights the limits of Christian tolerance for the advancement of minority rights.

America through Transgender Eyes provides an opportunity for readers to look at American society through the eyes of transgender people at a time when movements for and against transgender people permeate socio-political discussions throughout the nation. This book provides readers with important insights into the beauty and struggle of transgender people, identities, experiences, and relationships. As political, religious, and scientific traditions update their arguments in relation to growing recognition of transgender lives and histories, America through Transgender Eyes offers an opportunity to visualize the way such traditions appear to some of the people often left out of them. As political battles about the rights of transgender Americans grow throughout the nation, this book provides an important introduction to this population for voters, leaders, activists, and scholars seeking to make sense of the shifting gender dynamics of contemporary America.

America through Transgender Eyes

Politics & Social Sciences

Mathers, Lain A.B.

Social Sciences

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Violent Manhood

Transmission is a story about transformation and the development of self-love. After 20 years of traveling throughout the U.S., Millie Morrison returns to her hometown to make sense of the experiences and relationships that have shaped her life. In so doing, Millie explores where she came from, what moments linger despite the passage of time, and who she is and wants to be standing on the edge of 40 years old. Her journey thus becomes a consideration on how we incorporate who we are with who others expect us to be. 
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From “Transmission” 
“I guess you’re right, or I’m right, we’re right maybe. I guess I’m very emotional right now. I haven’t thought about Josie in years, I just haven’t, it was almost like I forgot her somehow. The song started playing, and I know you always said I had way too much of an emotional reaction to that song, but it started playing and I could see her. I don’t mean I was thinking about her, necessarily, it was different. I could see her, three years old in pig tails, seven years old dancing in the grass, twelve years old climbing the magnolia tree in front of her house that her mother was allergic to, fifteen years old showing me how to do my makeup that night before we all went out to the party out in the field on the edge of the park. I could see her like she was really there. I could hear her voice. I could feel her laugh. The tears just flooded me. There was no warning. She just came crashing back into my head like she’d always been there, maybe hiding somewhere waiting for the right moment.”

Transmission: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Texas Review Press

Black Lives and Bathrooms: Racial and Gendered Reactions to Minority Rights Movements examines how people respond to minority movements in ways that maintain existing patterns of racial and gender inequality. By studying the Black Lives Matter and Transgender Bathroom Access movement efforts, J.E. Sumerau and Eric Anthony Grollman analyze how cisgender white people define minority movements in relation to their existing notions of United States social norms; react to minority movements utilizing racial, classed, gendered, and sexual stereotypes that reinforce racism, sexism, and cissexism in society; and propose ways that racial and gender minorities could gain conditional acceptance by behaving in ways cisgender white people find more comfortable and normal. Throughout this work, Sumerau and Grollman note how assumptions about whiteness and cisnormativity are spread as cisgender white people respond to racial and gender movements seeking social change.

Black Lives and Bathrooms: Racial and Gendered Reactions to Minority Rights Movements (Breaking Boundaries: New Horizons in Gender & Sexualities)

Grollman, Eric Anthony

This book utilizes collaborative autoethnography to examine transformations in health and aging among queer, trans, and intersex people in society. To this end, the authors each utilize their lived experiences as queer, trans, and/or intersex people to discuss inequalities and norms in U.S. healthcare. Further, they elaborate upon some ways U.S. healthcare systems may become more inclusive of queer, trans, and intersex populations over time. In so doing, they utilize the autoethnographic cases to illustrate and describe the complexities of sex, gender, and sexualities in health and aging as well as the ways such intricacies facilitate societal inequalities in health and aging.

Transformations in Queer, Trans, and Intersex Health and Aging (Breaking Boundaries: New Horizons in Gender & Sexualities)

Nowakowski, Alexandra C.H.

Lampe, Nik M.

Imagine engaging in sexual intimacy with someone you care about for the first time after surviving the loss of a serious, committed, loving relationship. In Palmetto Rose, this is where we find a bi+, gender fluid narrator affectionately called Kid by their loved ones. After five years trying to numb and escape the pain of losing their first love to a tragic accident, Kid begins to wake up, grieve, and try to rebuild their life in Atlanta, Georgia. Through their eyes, we watch as they seek to make sense of grief, pursue the possibility of a college education, and embark on their first serious romantic relationship since they were a teenager. In the process, we spend time with their chosen family of friends who navigate relationships, graduate programs, and developing careers. As the story unfolds, these friends face the ups and downs of early adulthood alongside the ways their individual and shared pasts find voices in their current endeavours, future plans, and intertwined lives. Although many characters in this story originally appeared in Cigarettes &amp; Wine, Homecoming Queens, or Other People’s Oysters, Palmetto Rose may be read as a stand-alone novel. Palmetto Rose may be used as an educational tool for people seeking to better understand growing numbers of openly bisexual, transgender, and poly people; as a supplemental reading for courses across disciplines dealing with gender, sexualities, relationships, families, the life course, narratives, emotions, the American south, identities, culture, and / or intersectionality; or it can, of course, be read entirely for pleasure.

Palmetto Rose (SOCI)

Sociology

Brill | Sense

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Christianity and the Limits of Minority Acceptance in America: God Loves (Almost) Everyone (Breaking Boundaries: New Horizons in Gender & Sexualities)

Christianity and the Limits of Minority Acceptance in America: God Loves (Almost) Everyone (Breaking Boundaries: New Horizons in Gender & Sexualities)

America through Transgender Eyes

America through Transgender Eyes

Violent Manhood

Transmission: A Novel

Black Lives and Bathrooms: Racial and Gendered Reactions to Minority Rights Movements (Breaking Boundaries: New Horizons in Gender & Sexualities)

Black Lives and Bathrooms: Racial and Gendered Reactions to Minority Rights Movements (Breaking Boundaries: New Horizons in Gender & Sexualities)

Transformations in Queer, Trans, and Intersex Health and Aging (Breaking Boundaries: New Horizons in Gender & Sexualities)

Palmetto Rose (SOCI)