Full Description
This interdisciplinary book bridges the gap between sexuality and leadership studies and serves as a blueprint for professionals seeking to understand the rationale behind leadership styles, particularly those which facilitate conversations that educate or liberate individuals, couples, families, and communities.
The Handbook of Sexuality Leadership brings together education, clinical, research, and advocacy experts from the field of sexology, who each speak of their unique leadership experiences - with diversity and inclusivity in mind - and serve as a medium of empowerment and transformational influence. This innovative compendium illuminates strategic planning, community engagement, and the necessity of working with underserved or marginalized communities using a combination of leadership styles. Chapters provide tools for risk taking, organizational improvement, collaborative leadership, and cultural intelligence, as well as strategies to emancipate underrepresented groups and lead systemic change.
With questions for further thought included to provoke critical thinking and initiate transformative conversations, this book will be an essential read for anyone interested in becoming a sexuality consultant or serving in a leadership position.
Contents
Biosketches
Introduction
JAMES C. WADLEY
SECTION I
Leadership in Sexuality Education
1 So, Exactly What Is "Appropriate"? Sex/ual/ity Education and Developmental Disabilities
RICHELLE FRABOTTA
2 Seven Leadership Skills for Sexuality Educators
KIRSTEN DEFUR
3 Sexuality Education for Current and Future Healthcare Providers
JENNA BENYOUNES
4 Feminist Activist Leadership and the Five Stages for Matching Values With Practice: A Case Study
KATHERINE MARTINEZ AND SYDNEY FOWLER
SECTION II
Leadership in Sexuality Activism, Counseling/Therapy
5 Marginality, Transformational Leadership, and Sexuality Work as a Psychologist: Traversing a Tough Terrain With Multiple Intersecting Identities
KAMILAH MARIE WOODSON
6 The Sex Therapist as Leader: Existential/Humanistic Reflections From the Therapist's Chair
DANIEL N. WATTER
SECTION III
Sexuality Leadership and Mentoring
7 The Unit: Considerations and Challenges for Developing Leaders in the Field of Sexology
SHADEEN FRANCIS
8 Networking, Mentoring, Collaborating, and Risk-Taking: A Four-Strand Approach to Sexuality Leadership
MELANIE DAVIS AND KATHERINE GLICK
9 Clearing the Path: Queer Faculty of Color Navigating Tenure and Promotion
JAYLEEN GALARZA
10 Sexuality Leadership: The Next Generation
TANYA M. BASS AND BILL TAVERNER
11 The Color of Change: A Case Study of Student-Powered LGTBQAI Campus Engagement in Historically
Black Educational Spaces
MELINA McCONATHA AND DENISE FORD BROWN
SECTION IV
Leadership in Sexuality Consultation and Special Issues
12 Money Talks . . . Misogynists Walk: A Complex Conversation on Sexual Harassment, Race, and Equal Pay
LEAH HOLLIS
13 Intimate Partner Violence in Sadomasochistic Relationships: Freirean Leadership Through Disclosure and Raising Voices
DULCINEA/ALEX PITAGORA
14 A New Renaissance: Podcasting as a Tool to Provide a Nuanced Voice to the Black Gay Male Experience
PATRICK GRANT
15 But Did You Die? Leading Conversations About Sexuality and Loss
JEANAE HOPGOOD-JONES
16 Paradigms of Activism and Engagement for Sexuality Leadership in Faith Communities
CANDACE ROBERTSON-JAMES AND GEORGE JAMES
17 Addressing White Fragility Through Mindfulness-Based Inquiry in Sexuality Leadership
CAROLE CLEMENTS AND SATORI MADRONE
18 Ethical Considerations in Leadership
TRALONDA TRIPLETT
19 WTF SAR?! Elevating and Expanding the Sexual Attitudes Reassessment
BIANCA I. LAUREANO
20 Sexuality Leadership and Its New Face
JAMES C. WADLEY
Appendix: Graduate and Postgraduate Programs in Human Sexuality
Index
