Sexual Identity; Everything You Need to Know About…: The Need to Know Library

Donaldson-Forbes, Jeff,

ISBN 10: 0823930890 / ISBN 13: 9780823930890

Published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc./New York,, 2000

About this Item

hard cover, ex library, blackened patch on title page and on pocket in the back, new condition otherwise, reinforced binding, 64 pages, 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches, fine book condition, no dust jacket, juvenile non-fiction,

Seller Inventory # C 2328

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sexual Identity; Everything You Need to Know About…: The Need to Know Library
• Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc./New York,
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823930890
• ISBN 13: 9780823930890
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
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About this title

Synopsis

Describes the issue of sexual identity, providing insight on what it means to be heterosexual, bixexual, or homosexual.

Reviews

Gr 6-10-A substandard hi/lo guide written at about a fourth-grade reading level for gay/lesbian youth covering such predictable chapters as "How Do I Know?," "Coming Out," and "Love and Sex." The author talks down to teens; gives them no new information; employs outdated terminology, such as, sexual preference rather than sexual orientation; uses ridiculous, canned medical stock photos; and insults transgender people by setting off "information" about their sexual identity in two bordered gray-colored pages. The glossary and list of resources are also inadequate. A good young adult book on sexual-identity development written in understandable language is needed. As for a guidebook for GLBT teens, almost any book in your libraries would be better, but Ellen Bass and Kate Kaufman's Free Your Mind (HarperPerennial, 1996) or Eric Marcus's Is It a Choice? (HarperSanFrancisco, 1999) are particularly strong choices.-Betty S. Evans, Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield

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