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.

• 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

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

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.

• 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

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

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.

• 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

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