Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters With the Right Taught Me About Sex, God, and Fury.Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters With the Right Taught Me About Sex, God, and Fury * Donna Minkowitz Donna Minkowitz (born 8 May 1964) is a Pulitzer-nominated writer and journalist from Brooklyn, New York, United States. She is an advocate for gay and lesbian rights and has written extensively on the subject for publications such as The Village Voice * Free Press * $24 To write this book, lesbian political journalist Donna Minkowitz infiltrated such conservative and religious organizations as Promise Keepers and Total Woman Ministries. Ferocious Romance records her sexual and spiritual education in counterpoint to her encounters with these right-wing activists. Minkowitz grows in self-knowledge and compassion for her opponents, realizing that most devotees--whether queers or Promise Keepers--are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. meaning and a way to be good. She risks vulnerability by allowing herself to develop friendships with these complicated people arrayed against what she stands for politically; she refuses to objectify ob·jec·ti·fy tr.v. ob·jec·ti·fied, ob·jec·ti·fy·ing, ob·jec·ti·fies 1. To present or regard as an object: "Because we have objectified animals, we are able to treat them impersonally" those who would objectify her. This stance is admirable, but Minkowitz is so moved by the power of her insights that she stops short of integrating them with a realpolitik realpolitik Politics based on practical objectives rather than on ideals. The word does not mean “real” in the English sense but rather connotes “things”—hence a politics of adaptation to things as they are. strategy for dealing with the organized antigay right. This brave and necessary book may be misinterpreted by people who confuse political passion with naivete na·ive·té or na·ïve·té n. 1. The state or quality of being inexperienced or unsophisticated, especially in being artless, credulous, or uncritical. 2. An artless, credulous, or uncritical statement or act. . |
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