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Honorable 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385492287Author Robert DrakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Michel Foucault was the first to embed the roots of human sexuality in discipline and biopolitics, therefore revolutionizing our conception of sex and its relationship to society, economics, and culture. Yet over the past two decades, scholars have...

Exploring forms of desire unaccounted for in previous histories of sexuality What can the Renaissance tell us at our present moment about who and what is "queer," as well as the political consequences of asking? In posing this question, The Shapes of...

In Mood and Trope, John Brenkman introduces two provocative propositions to affect theory: that human emotion is intimately connected to persuasion and figurative language; and that literature, especially poetry, lends precision to studying affect...

White men still hold most of the political and economic cards in the United States; yet stories about wounded and traumatized men dominate popular culture. Why are white men jumping on the victim bandwagon? Examining novels by Philip Roth, John Updike,...

A masterful synthesis of literary readings and poetic reflections, making profound contributions to our understanding of chronic painAt the intersection of queer theory and disability studies, acclaimed theorist Michael D. Snediker locates something...

Winner, LGBT Studies Lammy Award presented by Lambda Literary Neither queer theory nor queer activism has fully reckoned with the role of race in the emergence of the modern gay subject. In A Taste for Brown Bodies, Hiram Perez traces the development of...

The first full-length study of transgender representations in art, fiction, film, video, and music In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative...

Responding to a critical need for greater perspectives on transgender life in the United States, Genny Beemyn and Susan (Sue) Rankin apply their extensive expertise to a groundbreaking survey--one of the largest ever conducted in the U.S.--on gender...

Engaging feminist and queer theory ranging from Nancy Chodorow to Judith Butler to Valerie Solanis's SCUM Manifesto, Straayer considers the wealth of films made by and for nontraditional viewers. Straayer investigation ranges from Stella Dallas to Mrs...

This book is about representations of sodomy. While most of the texts it considers are literary-works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, among others-it is framed by political considerations, notably the 1986 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Bowers v...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879726508Author Branimir M. RiegerFormat PaperbackPage Count 233Imprint Bowling Green University Popular Press,USPublisher University of Wisconsin Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781888602999Author Clifton SniderFormat HardbackImprint Chiron PublicationsPublisher Chiron PublicationsWeight(grams) 408g

Gender and cultural studies readings of Tennessee Williams's work have provided diverse perspectives on his complex representations of sexuality, whether of himself as an openly gay man, or of his characters, many of whom narrate or dramatize sexual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781519191526Author Eden AmadorFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798643283485Author Megan CaseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781951092832Author Philip GamboneFormat PaperbackPage Count 402Imprint Requeered TalesPublisher Requeered TalesWeight(grams) 508g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732906013Author Tucker LiebermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Glyph TorrentPublisher Glyph TorrentWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608642021Author Brian AlessandroFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Rebel Satori PressPublisher Rebel Satori PressWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm)...

This work examines how lesbian detective and mystery fiction represents lesbian characters and experience within the confines of the genre. As this book points out, such fiction reveals the lesbian's increasing visibility in the wider society...

On Brokeback Mountain: Meditations About Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film provides a close, detailed, comparative discussion of the short story and the film in relation to ways of understanding masculinity and love between men in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439246535Author Robert J G LangeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm)...

In The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film (2005), scholar Drewey Wayne Gunn examined the history of gay detectives beginning with the first recognized gay novel, The Heart in Exile, which appeared in 1953. In the years since the original edition's...

Byron's emotional and erotic life, which he indulged with an unstoppable energy, is a key element in understanding his powerful and passionate personality, as well as the society of his day, which was scandalised by his behaviour even while being...

Fluid Bodies traces the intersections of global movement with transgender and queer identities from authors and artists of the Hispanic Caribbean. Utilizing the theme of fluidity and travel, Fluid Bodies analyzes novels, graphic novels, theatre, and...

Young adult literature featuring teenage lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning characters is growing in popularity. Unlike the ""problem novels"" of the past, which focused on the guilt, bullying and isolation of LGBTQ...

This critical analysis of the popular romance novel genre offers an evaluation of the field through the subgenre of the lesbian romance novel. The author describes the history of the lesbian romance novel and analyses both individual works by authors...

While lesbian literature can trace its name back to the Greek poet Sappho, who was born on the Island of Lesbos in 630 B.C., it was not until the past century that the genre really gained popularity. More lesbian poems, novels and plays, as well as...

On Brokeback Mountain: Meditations About Masculinity, Fear, and Love in the Story and the Film provides a close, detailed, comparative discussion of the short story and the film in relation to ways of understanding masculinity and love between men in...

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...

Provides researchers in various disciplines with the full picture of the range of memory studies and demonstrates the critical value of having a memory culture that is an essential construct of civilization and literary and historical culture.Book...

Professions of Desire includes examples of lesbian and gay literary analysis and thoughtful discussions about what it means to be lesbian, gay, or queer in the literature classroom. The four essays in the first section, ""Teaching...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998531892Author Christian HiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

This sensational novel (published in 1870 with a preface by Zola) tells of the suffering of a naive young man whose new bride will not agree to consummate the marriage.Book InformationISBN 9780873527989Author Christopher RiversFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Well-known scholars in the fields of literature and film address the issues of authority and transgression as sociocultural phenomena, discussing such topics as male and female sexuality, socioeconomic formations, history and myth, the relative power of...

This sensational novel (published in 1870 with a preface by Zola) tells of the suffering of a naive young man whose new bride will not agree to consummate the marriage.Book InformationISBN 9780873527996Author Christopher RiversFormat PaperbackPage Count...

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...

-- The Washington PostBook InformationISBN 9780231075107Author John M. ClumFormat HardbackPage Count 393Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press

Why do we read? Based on a series of lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel in 2005, Brian Stock presents a model for relating ascetic and aesthetic principles in Western reading practices. He begins by establishing the primacy of the...