Affirmation, Care Ethics, and LGBT Identity

✍ Scribed by Tim R. Johnston (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 112
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this book, Johnston argues that affirmation is not only encouragement or support, but also the primary mechanism we use to form our identities and create safe spaces. Using the work of feminist care ethics and the thinking of French philosopher Henri Bergson to examine responses to school bullying and abuses faced by LGBT older adults, he provides the theoretical analysis and practical tools LGBT people and their allies need to make all spaces, public and private, spaces in which we can live openly as members of the LGBT community.

With its combination of philosophical theory and on-the-ground activist experience, this text will be useful to anyone interested in philosophy, women’s and gender studies, psychology, aging, geriatrics, and LGBT activism.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction: The Need for Affirming Spaces....Pages 1-10
Affirmation and Care Ethics....Pages 11-32
Embodied Memory and Fluid Mobility....Pages 33-58
Affirmation and Adolescent Bullying....Pages 59-77
LGBT Aging and Elder Abuse....Pages 79-97
Conclusion....Pages 99-101
Back Matter....Pages 103-107

✦ Subjects

Social Care;Cultural Studies;Gender Studies