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Abstract: PSYCHIATRIC SERVIcES . February 1996 Vol.47 No.2 205 ture, doubting hen adequacy as a parent, and feeling isolated in what she at first believed to be a unique situation, Dew describes an initial attempt to nun away from society and to hide in order to protect her son, her family, and herself. “Our house had taken on the dimensions ofa single closet, and a closet is no place like home.” The author gives exacting attention to her efforts to integrate her son’s newly disclosed identity into a redefined relationship. Mother and son’s ultimately successful attempts to help one another come to terms with Stephen s sexuality, starting from mitial faltering missteps, are chronicled with dialogues that read almost like process recordings, so vivid are they in their detail. Drawing on hen own initial reaction to her son s homosexuality, Dew confronts the homophobia imbued in our culture and the toll it takes on gay children who struggle to keep their stigmatized identity a secret to avoid

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Abstract: This article argues that story has a special importance in planning that has neither been fully understood nor sufficiently valued. Planning is performed through story, in a myriad of ways. The aim here is to unpack the many ways we use story: in policy, in process, in pedagogy, in critique, as a foundation, and as a catalyst for change. A better understanding of the work that stories do can make us better planners in at least three ways: by expanding our practical tools, by sharpening our critical judgment and by widening the circle of democratic discourse.

Abstract: Is the closet just a metaphor? Closet Space provides a highly original account of the spatial metaphor of "the closet", and is the first geography text to focus on this important issue. Using a variety of research techniques and materials, the book explores the closet through texts including: * the oral histories of gay men in the UK and US * the sexualised landscape of a New Zealand city * the national census of Britain and the US * international travel guides and travelogues and refers to the work of Butler, Lefebvre and Foucault.