{"id":619,"date":"2009-11-08T22:01:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T03:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rainbowlist.wordpress.com\/?p=619"},"modified":"2009-11-08T22:01:19","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T03:01:19","slug":"sexuality-and-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/archives\/619","title":{"rendered":"Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-621\" title=\"sexuality and socialism\" src=\"http:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/sexuality-and-socialism1.jpg?w=214\" alt=\"sexuality and socialism\" width=\"150\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/sexuality-and-socialism1.jpg 250w, https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/sexuality-and-socialism1-214x300.jpg 214w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Wolf, Sherry.\u00a0 <em>Sexuality and Socialism:\u00a0 History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation.<\/em> 2009.\u00a0 333p.\u00a0 Haymarket Books, $12.00.\u00a0 (978-1-931859-79-0).\u00a0 Gr. 10-12.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Despite the political struggles of the past half century for GLBT individuals to achieve equality with others and the gains made during that time, the discrimination, as evidenced in marriage and military laws, continue.\u00a0 In this series of essays, Wolf describes this past and argues for a full liberation of human sexuality.\u00a0\u00a0 Clearly written, this concise collection pursues a variety of areas including the state\u2019s repression of glbtq individuals, the work of the Gay Liberation Front to relate this repression with other repressed groups, the movement of those \u201ctolerant\u201d of glbt individuals to keep them from equal rights, the question of biological reasons for being glbt with a description of how people are shaped through environment, and the need to fight for glbt people to stand up and fight.\u00a0 Throughout her essays, Wolf shows how the existing discrimination comes from a strong class society.\u00a0 Her revolutionary ideas, meant to spark strong opinions and discussion in readers, will be eye-opening for young adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wolf, Sherry.\u00a0 Sexuality and Socialism:\u00a0 History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation. 2009.\u00a0 333p.\u00a0 Haymarket Books, $12.00.\u00a0 (978-1-931859-79-0).\u00a0 Gr. 10-12. Despite the political struggles of the past half century for GLBT individuals to achieve equality with others and the gains made during that time, the discrimination, as evidenced in marriage and military laws, continue.\u00a0 In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[222,223],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","tag-sexuality-and-socialism","tag-sherry-wolf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glbtrt.ala.org\/rainbowbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}