A pioneering psychologist, Hooker was a poet and a towering figure in LGBTQ+ rights.
This evocative biography tells the story of Evelyn Hooker, the extraordinary woman behind the research, advocacy, and allyship that led to the removal of the amp ldquo Homosexuality amp rdquo diagnosis from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Written by Stonewall award-winning author Gayle Pitman, Hooker amp rsquo s groundbreaking work is captured like never before. At the end of the book, a amp ldquo Note to Readers amp rdquo provides information about how to be an effective ally to LGBTQ+ people other endmatter included are a timeline, discussion questions, reading list, and additional resources, written by Sarah Prager.
This is Book 1 in the Extraordinary Women in Psychology Series Series. See all Extraordinary Women in Psychology Series books here.
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Gayle E. Pitman is a professor of psychology and women and gender studies at Sacramento City College. Her research, teaching, and writing focuses heavily on gender, sexual orientation, intersectionality, and social justice. Her first children's book This Day in June won the 2015 ALA Stonewall Award. She has four other published books for children
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