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AUTOR(ES) M. Mikulak , A. D. Nuttall
AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) London School of Economics and Political Science
ANO 2020
TIPO Book
PERIÓDICO Sexualities
ISSN 1363-4607
E-ISSN 1461-7382
EDITORA Sage Publications
DOI 10.1177/1363460718797543
ADICIONADO EM 2025-08-14
MD5 878b58d824ad87adfb3b6dabb8cf8c26
MD5 4e2857e551a9d8d923508d4661611758

Resumo

This article investigates the practice of sexual reorientation therapy, or reparative therapy (RT), in contemporary Poland. Focusing on three groups – Odwaga (Courage), Pomoc 2002 (Help 2002) and Pascha (Passover) – and informed by interviews with their past participants, it examines the ways in which RT in Poland is gendered, as well as investigating the individualizing and self-responsibilizing understandings of the self it rests on. This article then demonstrates how the neoliberal ideas of selfhood permeate the practice of RT, mobilizing the tropes of individual effort and responsibility for the reorientation of one's sexual desire, obscuring the inherent inequality on which the practice is based.

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