Cynthia Burack is Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University. She is the coeditor (with Jyl J. Josephson) of Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives,, and the author of several books, including Healing Identities: Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Groups and Sin, Sex, and Democracy: Antigay Rhetoric and the Christian Right, also published by SUNY Press.

"…[a] tightly woven analysis … Reasoned and measured, this volume succeeds in its wide-ranging explication of its topic." — CHOICE

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Christian Right’s Compassionate ConservatismLeft, Right, Left: Forward MarchThe Faces of CompassionDifferent Rhetorics for Different FolksFixing Moral Boundaries"The Politics of Yuck"A Word about Words, and So On1. Let’s Both Agree That You’re Really Sinful: Compassion in the Ex-Gay MovementReparative TherapiesThe Narrative of DevelopmentOut of BondageThe Compassionate GazeLeaving HomosexualityTaking the Ex-Gay Challenge2. What about the Women? Compassion in Postabortion MinistriesFrom Abomination to CompassionIt’s about the Women, StupidPostabortion SydromeCompassion before AbortionHelping Hurting WomenSorting Out Compassion3. Christian Right Compassion: What Would Hannah Arendt Do?Identity in PoliticsCaution: Hazardous Compassion AheadThe Miserable OnesLove among the OutcastsA World of OthersRevisiting Compassion CampaignsArendt and Christian Love4. Just Deserts: The Compassion of Ayn RandWho Is John Galt?Rand, Sex, and GenderObjectiv(ist) CompassionAyn Rand Always with Us5. Drawing the Compassionate Line: Love, Guilt, and Melanie KleinThe Psychoanalytic TurnMore Narratives of DevelopmentMaking GoodBad Group!Being ReparativeCan "Compassion" Harm?Compassionate WarriorsAfterword: Compassion, Where Is Thy Victory?Whence Compassion?A Last Word on TheoryFeeling(s) and KnowingNotesIndex

Cynthia Burack is Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University. She is the coeditor (with Jyl J. Josephson) of Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives,, and the author of several books, including Healing Identities: Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Groups and Sin, Sex, and Democracy: Antigay Rhetoric and the Christian Right, also published by SUNY Press.

"…[a] tightly woven analysis … Reasoned and measured, this volume succeeds in its wide-ranging explication of its topic." — CHOICE

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Christian Right’s Compassionate ConservatismLeft, Right, Left: Forward MarchThe Faces of CompassionDifferent Rhetorics for Different FolksFixing Moral Boundaries"The Politics of Yuck"A Word about Words, and So On1. Let’s Both Agree That You’re Really Sinful: Compassion in the Ex-Gay MovementReparative TherapiesThe Narrative of DevelopmentOut of BondageThe Compassionate GazeLeaving HomosexualityTaking the Ex-Gay Challenge2. What about the Women? Compassion in Postabortion MinistriesFrom Abomination to CompassionIt’s about the Women, StupidPostabortion SydromeCompassion before AbortionHelping Hurting WomenSorting Out Compassion3. Christian Right Compassion: What Would Hannah Arendt Do?Identity in PoliticsCaution: Hazardous Compassion AheadThe Miserable OnesLove among the OutcastsA World of OthersRevisiting Compassion CampaignsArendt and Christian Love4. Just Deserts: The Compassion of Ayn RandWho Is John Galt?Rand, Sex, and GenderObjectiv(ist) CompassionAyn Rand Always with Us5. Drawing the Compassionate Line: Love, Guilt, and Melanie KleinThe Psychoanalytic TurnMore Narratives of DevelopmentMaking GoodBad Group!Being ReparativeCan "Compassion" Harm?Compassionate WarriorsAfterword: Compassion, Where Is Thy Victory?Whence Compassion?A Last Word on TheoryFeeling(s) and KnowingNotesIndex

Cynthia Burack is Professor of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Ohio State University. She is the coeditor (with Jyl J. Josephson) of Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives,, and the author of several books, including Healing Identities: Black Feminist Thought and the Politics of Groups and Sin, Sex, and Democracy: Antigay Rhetoric and the Christian Right, also published by SUNY Press.

"…[a] tightly woven analysis … Reasoned and measured, this volume succeeds in its wide-ranging explication of its topic." — CHOICE

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Christian Right’s Compassionate ConservatismLeft, Right, Left: Forward MarchThe Faces of CompassionDifferent Rhetorics for Different FolksFixing Moral Boundaries"The Politics of Yuck"A Word about Words, and So On1. Let’s Both Agree That You’re Really Sinful: Compassion in the Ex-Gay MovementReparative TherapiesThe Narrative of DevelopmentOut of BondageThe Compassionate GazeLeaving HomosexualityTaking the Ex-Gay Challenge2. What about the Women? Compassion in Postabortion MinistriesFrom Abomination to CompassionIt’s about the Women, StupidPostabortion SydromeCompassion before AbortionHelping Hurting WomenSorting Out Compassion3. Christian Right Compassion: What Would Hannah Arendt Do?Identity in PoliticsCaution: Hazardous Compassion AheadThe Miserable OnesLove among the OutcastsA World of OthersRevisiting Compassion CampaignsArendt and Christian Love4. Just Deserts: The Compassion of Ayn RandWho Is John Galt?Rand, Sex, and GenderObjectiv(ist) CompassionAyn Rand Always with Us5. Drawing the Compassionate Line: Love, Guilt, and Melanie KleinThe Psychoanalytic TurnMore Narratives of DevelopmentMaking GoodBad Group!Being ReparativeCan "Compassion" Harm?Compassionate WarriorsAfterword: Compassion, Where Is Thy Victory?Whence Compassion?A Last Word on TheoryFeeling(s) and KnowingNotesIndex