Gay Conversion Practices in Memoir, Film and Fiction: Stories of Repentance and Defiance (Library of Gender and Popular Culture) - Softcover

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

James Bennett is an Honorary Academic at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is author of 'Rats and Revolutionaries': The Labour Movement in Australia and New Zealand 1890-1940 (2004), co-author (with David Betts) of Marriage Equality and Resurgent Prejudice in Australia (2026) and co-editor (with Rebecca Beirne) of Making Film and Television Histories: Australia & New Zealand (2011). He is a specialist in the histories of medicalizing and de-medicalizing homosexuality.

Marguerite Johnson is Honorary Professor (Classics and Ancient History) at The University of Queensland. She is an interdisciplinary cultural historian of the ancient Mediterranean, and a comparative cultural analyst, emphasising literary-informed cultural paradigms, underpinned by the theoretical praxes of both gender and post-colonial theories. Her research explores themes in sexualities, gender, and the body, particularly the erotic poets Sappho, Catullus and Ovid, and myths and fables, Eros, and gender in the works of Plato. Key publications include Sexuality in Greek and Roman Literature and Society: A Sourcebook, 2nd ed. (Routledge, 2022); as editor, Antipodean Antiquities: Classical Reception Down Under (Bloomsbury, 2019); Ovid on Cosmetics: Medicamina Faciei Femineae and Related Texts (Bloomsbury, 2016); as co-editor with Harold Tarrant, Alcibiades and the Socratic Lover-Educator (Duckworth, 2012).