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The Routledge Queer Studies Reader by Donald E. Hall
RRP: £54.99£50.97The 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... -
Like Bread on the Seder Plate: Jewish Lesbians and the Transformation of Tradition by Rebecca T. Alpert
RRP: £28.00£21.36This 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 by Oscar Wilde 9780674057920
RRP: £45.95£37.02The 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... -
Queer Gothic by George Haggerty
RRP: £20.99£17.98Discovering 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 Love: Sexual Revolution in British Writing of the 1930s by Glyn Salton-Cox 9781474454858
RRP: £23.99£21.41Queer 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... -
Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship by Kath Weston 9780231110938
RRP: £22.00£17.25This 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... -
Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality by Gayle Salamon 9780231149594
RRP: £28.00£21.36We 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,... -
Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings by Eileen Barrett
RRP: £27.99£23.66The 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... -
The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects by Mari Ruti
RRP: £28.00£21.36In 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... -
Queer Communism and the Ministry of Love: Sexual Revolution in British Writing of the 1930s by Glyn Salton-Cox
RRP: £90.00£80.58It 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... -
Writing Queer Women of Color: Representation and Misdirection in Contemporary Fiction and Graphic Narratives by Monalesia Earle 9781476674544
RRP: £28.99£25.19Queer 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... -
Queer Roots for the Diaspora: Ghosts in the Family Tree by Jarrod Hayes 9780472073160
RRP: £81.00£66.08As 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... -
Queer Roots for the Diaspora: Ghosts in the Family Tree by Jarrod Hayes 9780472053162
RRP: £33.95£27.99As 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: A Kleinian Approach to the Literature of Infidelity by Alison Sinclair 9780198151906
RRP: £50.00£49.86The 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: Studies in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond by Ann Suter 9780195336924
RRP: £95.00£86.44Lament 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... -
So Famous and So Gay: The Fabulous Potency of Truman Capote and Gertrude Stein by Jeff Solomon 9780816696826
RRP: £22.99£21.70Gertrude 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... -
Inconsequence: Lesbian Representation and the Logic of Sexual Sequence by Annamarie Jagose 9780801487989
RRP: £38.00£33.05The 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... -
Queer Exposures: Sexuality and Photography in Roberto Bolano's Fiction and Poetry by Ryan Long
RRP: £39.00£32.39Apologies 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 -
Lesbian Choices by Claudia Card
£37.39Renowned 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... -
Days of Masquerade: Life Stories of Lesbian Women During the Third Reich by Claudia Schoppmann
£58.62Through 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... -
Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall by Thomas Waugh
£89.24Spanning 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... -
The Modulated Scream: Pain in Late Medieval Culture by Esther Cohen
£55.39In 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... -
Queer Nations: Marginal Sexualities in the Maghreb by Jarrod Hayes
£28.66The 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... -
Pornography, the Theory: What Utilitarianism Did to Action by Frances Ferguson
£26.03When 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... -
Sexing the Text: The Rhetoric of Sexual Difference in British Literature, 1700-1750 by Todd C. Parker
RRP: £25.51£22.22Apologies 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... -
Outside the Lines: Talking with Contemporary Gay Poets by Christopher Hennessy 9780472068739
RRP: £21.95£17.94This 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: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction by Steven Ruszczycky
£28.09Vulgar 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 by Emma Heaney 9780810135536
RRP: £39.95£32.75The 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... -
The Penetrated Male by Jonathan Kemp 9780615870861
RRP: £22.00£17.84Apologies 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 by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 9780822314219
RRP: £24.99£20.96Tendencies 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... -
Reading from Behind: A Cultural Analysis of the Anus by Jonathan A. Allan
£21.56'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... -
The Weather in Proust by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
RRP: £22.99£18.93The Weather in Proust gathers pieces written by the eminent critic and theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in the last decade of her life, as she worked toward a book on Proust. This book takes its title from the first essay, a startlingly original... -
The Politics of Passion: Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora by Gloria Wekker
£33.37Gloria 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: Flaubert, Proust, Fitzgerald, Miller, Lana Del Rey by Per Bjørnar Grande
RRP: £16.95£14.08Desire 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 by José Esteban Muñoz 9781478011033
RRP: £22.99£18.98The 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... -
Lorca: The Gay Imagination by Paul Binding 9780907040361
RRP: £6.95£5.73Apologies 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 -
Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature by Colm Toibin 9780743244671
RRP: £18.99£13.64Apologies 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 -
The Angel and the Perverts by Lucie Delarue-Mardrus 9780814750988
RRP: £22.99£19.60Set 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: By Ben Jonson by Michael Hattaway 9780719059858
RRP: £14.99£13.33The 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... -
Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition by Melissa E. Sanchez
RRP: £29.99£25.99Honorable Mention, 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, given by the Modern Language Association Uncovers the queer logics of premodern religious and secular texts Putting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and...