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Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in CriticismA leading trans scholar and activist explores cultural representations of gender transition in the modern periodIn Pleasure and Efficacy, Grace Lavery investigates gender transition as it...

The Routledge Queer Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vibrant and interdisciplinary field.The book traces the emergence and development of Queer Studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key...

This text explores what it is like to be part of both the lesbian and Jewish communities, suggesting ways in which lesbians can reconcile these seemingly discordant elements of their identity. It advocates the acceptance of lesbians into the Jewish...

The Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had-in the words of biographer Richard Ellmann-"a different look." Yet the...

Discovering gothic fictionDiscovering gothic fiction's role in the development of sexualityReviews"An important book... Haggerty leads the way in redirecting our gaze towards where there is an absence of love between men rather than the suspicion of sex...

Queer Communism and the Ministry of Loveseeks to transform current narratives of midcentury literary, cultural, and intellectual history from a queer Marxist perspective.Book InformationISBN 9781474454858Author Glyn Salton-CoxFormat PaperbackPage Count...

This classic text, originally published in 1991 and now revised and updated to include a new preface, draws upon fieldwork and interviews to explore the ways gay men and lesbians are constructing their own notions of kinship by drawing on the symbolism...

We believe we know our bodies intimately--that their material reality is certain and that this certainty leads to an epistemological truth about sex, gender, and identity. By exploring and giving equal weight to transgendered subjectivities, however,...

The last two decades have seen a resurgence of critical and popular attention to Virginia Woolf's life and work. Such traditional institutions as The New York Review of Books now pair her with William Shakespeare in promotional advertisements; her face...

In The Ethics of Opting Out, Mari Ruti provides an accessible yet theoretically rigorous account of the ideological divisions that have animated queer theory during the last decade, paying particular attention to the field's rejection of dominant...

It is well known that many of the best-known queer writers of the 1930s were involved with leftist politics. Why, then, has there been no extended examination of this striking juncture of dissident sex and socialism? What, for instance, does it mean for...

Queer women of color have historically been underrepresented or excluded completely in fiction and comics. When present, they are depicted as "less than" the white, Eurocentric norm. Drawing on semiotics, queer theory, and gender studies, this...

As a way of understanding identity, the concept of rootedness hasincreasingly been subjected to acerbic political and theoretical critiques.Politically, roots narratives have been criticized for attempting to policeidentity through a politics of...

As a way of understanding identity, the concept of rootedness hasincreasingly been subjected to acerbic political and theoretical critiques.Politically, roots narratives have been criticized for attempting to policeidentity through a politics of...

The Deceived Husband is an ambitious and original study of the representation in European literature of adultery, focusing in particular on the figure of the husband. Drawing on psychoanalysis, and primarily the work of Melanie Klein, Dr Sinclair argues...

Lament seems to have been universal in the ancient world. As such, it is an excellent touchstone for the comparative study of attitudes towards death and the afterlife, human relations to the divine, views of the cosmos, and the constitution of the...

Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) and Truman Capote (1924-1984) should not have been famous. They made their names between the Oscar Wilde trial and Stonewall, when homosexuality meant criminality and perversion. And yet both Stein and Capote, openly and...

The field of lesbian studies is often framed in terms of the relation between lesbianism and invisibility. Annamarie Jagose here takes a radical new approach, suggesting that the focus on invisibility and visibility is perhaps not the most productive way...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822946694Author Ryan LongFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh PressWeight(grams) 152g

Renowned feminist philosopher Card courageously explores the complex ethical and political questions lesbians face regarding their identities and their relationships both within and outside of lesbian communities.Book InformationISBN 9780231080095Author...

Through a series of interviews Schoppmann presents the life stories of ten lesbians who lived through the Nazi era. This book is a bold reminder of the "forgotten victims" of the Third Reich.Through a series of interviews Schoppmann presents the life...

Spanning more than a century of photography and film, Hard to Imagine is the first visual chronicle of the evolution of gay male image culture, from the canonical works of "art" photography and cinema to the private and often highly explicit productions...

In the late medieval era, pain could be a symbol of holiness, disease, sin, or truth. It could be encouragement to lead a moral life, a punishment for wrongdoing, or a method of healing. Exploring the varied depictions and descriptions of pain - from...

The Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) has been inhabited for millennia by a heterogeneous populace. However, in the wake of World War II, when independence movements began to gain momentum in these French colonies, the dominant national discourses...

When we think of debates about pornography, what first comes to mind is the question of whether it should be banned or protected. But perhaps we should ask instead what pornography tells us about the way individuals are valued or represented. Combining...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791444863Author Todd C. ParkerFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Same old offers a rethinking of positions that have defined queer theory since its inception in the early 1990s. Steeped in philosophical and political commitments to 'difference', queer theoretical frameworks have tended to assume that ideas related to...

This is the first book to collect the voices of our foremost and emerging gay poets. ""Outside the Lines"" gathers interviews with some of the most significant figures in contemporary American poetry. While each poet is gay, these encompassing,...

Vulgar Genres examines gay pornographic writing, showing how literary fiction was both informed by pornography and amounts to a commentary on the genre's relation to queer male erotic life. Long fixated on visual forms, the field of porn studies is...

The New Woman: Literary Modernism, Queer Theory, and the Trans Feminine Allegory traces the creation and significance of the trans feminine as an allegorical figure from its origins in late nineteenth-century sexological writing to subsequent writings in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615870861Author Jonathan KempFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays...

'A serious work of theory.' The Guardian 'Jonathan Allan has come up with a whole theory of the arsehole.' Dazed and Confused In a resolute deviation from the governing totality of the phallus, Reading from Behind offers a radical reorientation...

Gloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which marriage is rejected in favor of male and female sexual partners. Wekker vividly describes the lives of these women, who prefer to...

Desire can take many forms. Hegel related desire to acceptance, Nietzsche to power, and Freud to the erotic. In novels and plays by Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Arthur Miller and music by Lana Del Rey, desire operates in a...

The Sense of Brown is Jose Esteban Munoz's treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies. In this book, which he was completing at the time of his death, Munoz examines the work of playwrights Ricardo Bracho...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780907040361Author Paul BindingFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Gay Men's PressPublisher Millivres-Prowler Group Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743244671Author Colm ToibinFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 266gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 133mm * 19mm

Set in the lesbian and gay circles of Paris in the 1920s, The Angel and the Perverts tells the story of a hermaphrodite born to upper class parents in Normandy and ignorant of his/her physical difference. As an adult, s/he lives a double life as...

The New Inn is one of the most neglected of Jonson's plays which is now finding a new and appreciative audience. May be read, according to this Editor's introduction, as a tribute to Shakespeare, and as a belated recognition that the fantasies of romance...