Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences

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In this groundbreaking book, playwright and social critic Sarah Schulman explores the family, the first place where all people: straight, gay, and bisexual, learn homophobia. It is within the family that homophobia begins to control the lives of perpetrators and recipients. Written in the tradition of Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape (Ballantine Books, 2000), which transformed rape from a private problem into an internationally recognised cultural crisis. Ties That Bind uncovers the hidden crime of 'familial homophobia' and moves it into the open.

Sarah Schulman is the author of seventeen books and a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fulbright award. She is Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island, and a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. She lives in New York City.

"Ties that Bind should be required reading for every family." -Ellen Bass, author of The Courage to Heal "Daring, radical, and compelling." -Rigoberto Gonzales, National Book Critics Circle "Visionary, deeply humane." -Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home "[Schulman] starkly lays out the fundamental immorality of such shunning behavior and its destructive consequences for everyone involved. This is an important and original book." -Martin Duberman, award-winning historian and gay rights activist