
- 200 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Interviewing more than 30 Australia-based authors and thinkers while examining his own journey towards being openly non-monogamous, Poly author Paul Dalgarno pulls together social history and illuminating first-hand accounts of what it means to have 'unconventional' relationships – with others and even with ourselves – in 21st-century Australia.
Do authors such as Christos Tsiolkas, Dennis Altman and Andrea Goldsmith think we're more tolerant than we once were? Are writers such as Lee Kofman, Rochelle Siemienowicz and Jinghua Qian optimistic about the future? Do terms such as LGBTQIA+ help or hinder meaningful progress? How does transitioning now compare to transitioning in the 1990s? How does 'queerness' affect notions of parenthood? Do therapists and psychologists still operate from a straight-white-male perspective and how can new practitioners such as popular psychologist and author Chris Cheers change that?
Entertaining, insightful, funny and thought-provoking, Prudish Nation adjusts the country's bedside lamp to show us a little more clearly who and what we really are.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Glossary
- 1. The snapshot
- 2. Hey prude
- 3. Are you normal?
- 4. Knowing you’re different
- 5. Coming out
- 6. What even are you?
- 7. Taxonomy for three, please!
- 8. Let’s not necessarily talk about sex
- 9. Role models
- 10. Help, I’m alive
- 11. The nuclear option
- 12. Holding up a mirror
- 13. Things fall apart
- 14. Getting better
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Back Cover