Download or read book The Sissy Boy Syndrome and the Development of Homosexuality written by Richard Green and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses a 15-year study of two groups of boys and their parents to examine the impact of early sexual role behavior on the development of homosexuality

Download or read book Sissy written by Jacob Tobia and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NATIONAL BESTSELLER "Transformative ... If Tobia aspires to the ranks of comic memoirists like David Sedaris and Mindy Kaling, Sissy succeeds." --The New York Times Book Review A heart-wrenching, eye-opening, and giggle-inducing memoir about what it's like to grow up not sure if you're (a) a boy, (b) a girl, (c) something in between, or (d) all of the above. "A beautiful book . . . honest and funny."--Trevor Noah, The Daily Show "Sensational."--Tyler Oakley "Jacob Tobia is a force." --Good Morning America "A trans Nora Ephron . . . both honest and didactic." --OUT Magazine "A rallying cry for anyone who's ever felt like they don't belong." --Woman's Day As a young child in North Carolina, Jacob Tobia wasn't the wrong gender, they just had too much of the stuff. Barbies? Yes. Playing with bugs? Absolutely. Getting muddy? Please. Princess dresses? You betcha. Jacob wanted it all, but because they were "a boy," they were told they could only have the masculine half. Acting feminine labelled them "a sissy" and brought social isolation. It took Jacob years to discover that being "a sissy" isn't something to be ashamed of. It's a source of pride. Following Jacob through bullying and beauty contests, from Duke University to the United Nations to the podiums of the Methodist church--not to mention the parlors of the White House--this unforgettable memoir contains multitudes. A deeply personal story of trauma and healing, a powerful reflection on gender and self-acceptance, and a hilarious guidebook for wearing tacky clip-on earrings in today's world, Sissy guarantees you'll never think about gender--both other people's and your own--the same way again.

Download or read book Oliver Button Is a Sissy written by Tomie dePaola and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful edition of Tomie dePaola’s progressive 1979 classic stars a special little boy who won’t give up on the dreams that make him unique. Oliver Button is a sissy. At least that’s what the other boys call him. But here’s what Oliver Button really is: a reader, and an artist, and a singer, and a dancer, and more. What will his classmates say when he steps into the spotlight?

Download or read book Sissy written by Harry Thomas and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative exploration of postwar representations of effeminate men and boys.

Download or read book Blackness and Sexualities written by Michelle M. Wright and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2007 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With contributions from leading scholars from various disciplines, this title offers analyses and critiques that span three continents and looks at topics such as the secret marketing of black female pornography to white American men and the eroticization of colonial legacies in contemporary German media.

Download or read book Secrets of a Sissy Boy written by Carolina Dean and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you think being gay is difficult in this still evolving world, try being a gay witch. The author shares a brutally honest depiction of what it was like to be bullied to the point of suicide, and his rise from the depths of despair to an empowered, powerful, and successful gay witch. A heartbreaking, as well as heartwarming account of the role of witchcraft plays in the life of gay witch and author Carolina Dean, Secrets of a Sissy Boy shares some of his most powerful secrets for seducing straight men, controlling your lover, eliminating rivals, and when necessary how to remove a man's nature and MORE!

Download or read book Thinking Straight written by Chrys Ingraham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of original essays will unravel the current heterosexual scene in two parts: one on rights and privileges, the other on popular culture. Topics covered include weddings, proms, citizenship, marriage penalties, cartoons, mermaids and myth.

Download or read book Tomboys written by Michelle Ann Abate and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting with the figure of the bold, boisterous girl in the mid-19th century and ending with the “girl power” movement of the 1990’s, Tomboys is the first full-length critical study of this gender-bending code of female conduct. Michelle Abate uncovers the origins, charts the trajectory, and traces the literary and cultural transformations that the concept of “tomboy” has undergone in the United States. Abate focuses on literature including Louisa May Alcott's Little Women and Carson McCullers's The Member of the Wedding and films such as Peter Bogdanovich's Paper Moon and Jon Avnet's Fried Green Tomatoes. She also draws onlesser-known texts like E.D.E.N. Southworth's once wildly popular 1859 novel The Hidden Hand, Cold War lesbian pulp fiction, and New Queer Cinema from the 1990s. Tomboys also explores the gender and sexual dynamics of tomboyism, and offers intriguing discussions of race and ethnicity's role in the construction of the enduring cultural archetype. Abate’s insightful analysis provides useful, thought-provoking connections between different literary works and eras. The result demystifies this cultural phenomenon and challenges readers to consider tomboys in a whole new light.

Download or read book Transgender Nation written by Gordene Olga MacKenzie and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the male-to-woman transgenderist and transsexual from a sociological and sociopolitical perspective, arguing that it is not the individual transgenderists who are sick and need treatment, but the society that condemns them. Considers the history of the transgender movement, categories of sex, and contemporary medical and popular ideology. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Sissy Boy Feminized and Loving It written by Alyson Belle and published by . This book was released on 2018-03-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hot, young people all over the world are in the middle of modern a sexual revolution: Unlike the older generations who came before us, we're blurring the lines of gender and identity in ways that are affirming, sexy, fun, and exciting, both in and outside of the bedroom. This revolution isn't about abandoning traditional notions of masculinity and femininity--what fun would that be? No, this is about expanding those definitions. Why should women get to be the only ones who feel attractive and desirable? Why should men get to be the only ones who feel powerful and dominant? Why should what we like to do in the privacy of our bedrooms define who we are as a person? This book by bestselling romance and erotica author Alyson Belle is your blueprint and permission slip to play with gender roles, express your deepest sexual desires to your partners, explore your fantasies, and not feel the least bit ashamed about it. Why let your fantasies remain fantasies? There are people out there who would love to play with you in exactly the way you want. Each of the book's chapters will explore a different facet of your feminization and femdom play, as described below. Chapter 1: Power and Consent This chapter discusses dominant and submissive roles in sex and introduces some important concepts for any kinky bedroom play, including responsible use of power, enthusiastic consent, defining and respecting boundaries. Chapter 2: Female Domination This chapter provides an introduction for women who will be taking a dominant role in their bedroom play (femdom), explains how to develop the self-confidence and mindset necessary to play the domme in the bedroom, and suggests actual activities and methods to play with a submissive partner. Chapter 3: Feminization This chapter provides specific, detailed advice for feminizing men, including crossdressing and clothing selection guidance, make-up tips geared toward making even the most masculine men as feminine and pretty as possible, and more ideas for fun activities you can try while feminized. Chapter 4: Humiliation and Punishment This chapter introduces humiliation and punishment as possibilities for your bedroom play and covers how to decide whether they're right for you and your partner. Responsible BDSM play including the proper use of "safe words" is discussed. Chapter 5: The Talk This chapter provides readers with strategies and tools to talk to their partner, whether male or female, about their desire to try feminization and femdom play. It discusses commonly asked questions, such as "Are you gay?", "Are you transgender?", and "Why is our sex life now not good enough?" so that readers can reflect and prepare to have an open, honest conversation about those same topics with their partner. It also provides guidance for cases where your partner has no interest in participating in your kink, and suggests methods for finding new partners who may already be comfortable with the idea of feminization and femdom play. Chapter 6: Advanced Maneuvers In this chapter, readers will learn how to satisfy their exhibitionist and multi-partner fantasies in ways that are safe, legal, and considerate. No matter who you are, what stage of your life you're at, and whether you're an experienced kinkster or a blushing newbie taking her first kinky steps with her partner, you'll find something of value within these pages. So please, let us be the first to ask you: "Who do you want to be? What do you want to feel? And what would make you happy?" You certainly have our permission. Click the "Buy" button and start exploring today!

Download or read book Sissies and Tomboys written by Matthew Rottnek and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1999-05 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1973, homosexuality was officially depathologized with a revision in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Psychiatry. In 1980, a new diagnosis appeared: Gender Identity Disorder of Childhood (GID). The shift separated gender from sexuality, while it simultaneously reinforced traditional concepts of "male" and "female" and made it possible for cross-gendered behavior and/or identification to be deemed psychiatric illness. What is the difference then between a child being called a sissy on the playground and being labeled with a disorder in a psychiatric hospital? Combining theory and personal narrative, this volume interrogates the meaning of "the normal" that pervades the literature on GID and investigates the theoretical underpinnings of the diagnosis. Sissies and Tomboys considers how the stigma of illness influences a child's development and what homosexual childhood, freed from the constraints of conventionally acceptable gender expression, might look like.

Download or read book The Gay Teen written by Gerald Unks and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by and for gay and straight teachers, this book explores gay student adolesence from discursive, practical, and theoretical perspectives. Essays are designed to introduce and sensitize educators to the complexities of gay identity and set forth some of the issues besetting gay youth in schools: alienation from peer groups, low academic achievement, violence, substance abuse, and the absence of gay teacher role models.

Download or read book Boy Culture 2 volumes written by Shirley R. Steinberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this two-volume set, a series of expert contributors look at what it means to be a boy growing up in North America, with entries covering everything from toys and games, friends and family, and psychological and social development. Boy Culture: An Encyclopedia spans the breadth of the country and the full scope of a pivotal growing-up time to show what "a boy's life" is really like today. With hundreds of entries across two volumes, it offers a series of vivid snapshots of boys of all kinds and ages at home, school, and at play; interacting with family or knocking around with friends, or pursuing interests alone as they begin their journey to adulthood. Boy Culture shows an uncanny understanding of just how exciting, confusing, and difficult the years between childhood and young adulthood can be. The toys, games, clothes, music, sports, and feelings—they are all a part of this remarkable resource. But most important is the book's focus on the things that shape boyhood identities—the rituals of masculinity among friends, the enduring conflict between fitting in and standing out, the effects of pop culture images, and the influence of role models from parents and teachers to athletes and entertainers to fictional characters.

Download or read book Sissy Assignments written by Mistress Dede and published by Mistress Dede. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a compilation of over 150 sissy training exercises that will benefit the Mistress/ Master as well as the self-trained sissy boi. These sissy training exercises should be used as a handy training tool to polish sissy slave skills into absolute perfection. Following these tasks on a day to day basis will turn your sissy boi into the proper sissy slave that is desirable to both parties. These sissy training tasks are designed to slowly take away a sissy's manhood and transform them into a much more feminine creature. This collection includes Sissy Humiliation Assignments, Public Humiliation Assignments, Sissy Maid Assignments, Sissy Holiday Assignments, Sissy Chastity Assignments and more! Take advantage of this great opportunity and take your sissy training to the next level!

Download or read book Strangers to the Law written by Lisa Melinda Keen and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-05-18 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1992, the voters of Colorado passed a ballot initiative amending the state constitution to prevent the state or any local government from adopting any law or policy that protected a person with a homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual orientation from discrimination. This amendment was immediately challenged in the courts as a denial of equal protection of the laws under the United States Constitution. This litigation ultimately led to a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court invalidating the Colorado ballot initiative. Suzanne Goldberg, an attorney involved in the case from the beginning on behalf of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, and Lisa Keen, a journalist who covered the initiative campaign and litigation, tell the story of this case, providing an inside view of this complex and important litigation. Starting with the background of the initiative, the authors tell us about the debates over strategy, the court proceedings, and the impact of each stage of the litigation on the parties involved. The authors explore the meaning of legal protection for gay people and the arguments for and against the Colorado initiative. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the development of civil rights protections for gay people and the evolution of what it means to be gay in contemporary American society and politics. In addition, it is a rich story well told, and will be of interest to the general reader and scholars working on issues of civil rights, majority-minority relations, and the meaning of equal rights in a democratic society. Suzanne Goldberg is an attorney with the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund. Lisa Keen is Senior Editor at the Washington Blade newspaper.

Download or read book Sissy Insurgencies written by Marlon B. Ross and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Sissy Insurgencies Marlon B. Ross focuses on the figure of the sissy in order to rethink how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated manhood and boyhood from the 1880s to the present. Rather than collapsing sissiness into homosexuality, Ross shows how sissiness constitutes a historically fluid range of gender practices that are expressed as a physical manifestation, discursive epithet, social identity, and political phenomenon. He reconsiders several black leaders, intellectuals, musicians, and athletes within the context of sissiness, from Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, and James Baldwin to Little Richard, Amiri Baraka, and Wilt Chamberlain. Whether examining Washington’s practice of cleaning as an iteration of sissiness, Baldwin’s self-fashioned sissy deportment, or sissiphobia in professional sports and black nationalism, Ross demonstrates that sissiness can be embraced and exploited to conform to American gender norms or disrupt racialized patriarchy. In this way, sissiness constitutes a central element in modern understandings of race and gender.

Download or read book Her Sissy Boy written by J. Barrow and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-12 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was a sissy boy. He was meek and mild, and I was the boss. I like to be on top! Adult content.