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Passionate Communities: Reading Lesbian Resistance in Jane Rule's Fiction by Marilyn Schuster 9780814781302
£89.88In this new full-length study of Jane Rule's life and work, Marilyn Schuster argues that Rule's novels provide a way of "writing and reading lesbian" that resists and subverts dominant discourses of gender and sexuality-both those of mainstream... -
The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities by Robert McRuer 9780814755549
£89.88Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots ushered in the contemporary gay liberation movement, overt representations of same-sex desire in American literature and the arts were few and far between. Even in the 1970s, when gay and lesbian cultures began to register... -
Elizabeth Bowen: A Reputation in Writing by Renee C. Hoogland 9780814735015
RRP: £76.00£65.01Immensely popular during her lifetime, the Ango-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) has since been treated as a peripheral figure on the literary map. If only in view of her prolific outputten novels, nearly eighty short stories, and a substantial... -
Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings by Eileen Barrett 9780814712634
£89.88The 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... -
Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia's Sappho by Diana L. Burgin 9780814711903
£89.88The weather in Moscow is good, there's no cholera, there's also no lesbian love...Brrr! Remembering those persons of whom you write me makes me nauseous as if I'd eaten a rotten sardine. Moscow doesn't have them--and that's marvellous." Anton... -
The Shock of Men: Homosexual Hermeneutics in French Writing by Lawrence R. Schehr 9780804724173
RRP: £63.00£53.44Provocative, subtle, polemical, reasoned, contentious, witty-this is one of the first works to bring the insights of American gender studies and queer theory to modern French literature. It focuses on the complex relations among narrative, theory,... -
The Ethics of Opting Out: Queer Theory's Defiant Subjects by Mari Ruti 9780231180900
RRP: £88.00£67.57In 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... -
Are the Lips a Grave?: A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex by Lynne Huffer 9780231164160
RRP: £88.00£67.57Lynne Huffer's ambitious inquiry redresses the rift between feminist and queer theory, traversing the space of a new, post-moral sexual ethics that includes pleasure, desire, connection, and betrayal. She begins by balancing queer theorists' politics of... -
Poems Between Women: Four Centuries of Love, Romantic Friendship, and Desire by Emma Donoghue 9780231109253
£32.16With poems in English by over one hundred female poets -- American, English, Scottish, Canadian, South African, Indian, Irish, and Australian -- this is an extraordinary collection that pays homage to four centuries of women's desires, friendships, and... -
Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality by Gayle Salamon 9780231149587
RRP: £88.00£67.97We 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,... -
Contingent Figure: Chronic Pain and Queer Embodiment by Michael D Snediker 9780816691883
RRP: £97.00£83.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780816691883Author Michael D SnedikerFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressWeight(grams)... -
The Theater of Terrence McNally: Something about Grace by Raymond-Jean Frontain 9781683932154
RRP: £102.00£94.71Terrence McNally's canon of plays, books for musicals and opera libretti possesses such a breadth of subject matter and diversity of dramatic modes that critics have had difficulty assessing his accomplishment. This book is the first critical study to... -
Isherwood in Transit by James J. Berg 9781517909093
RRP: £97.00£82.61New perspectives on Christopher Isherwood as a searching and transnational writer "Perhaps I had traveled too much, left my heart in too many places," muses the narrator of Christopher Isherwood's novel Prater Violet (1945), which he wrote in... -
The Shapes of Fancy: Reading for Queer Desire in Early Modern Literature by Christine Varnado 9781517907761
RRP: £108.00£91.83Exploring 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... -
Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition by Melissa E. Sanchez 9781479871872
RRP: £89.00£76.31Uncovers the queer logics of premodern religious and secular texts Putting premodern theology and poetry in dialogue with contemporary theory and politics, Queer Faith reassess the commonplace view that a modern veneration of sexual monogamy and... -
Men in Love: Masculinity and Sexuality in the Eighteenth Century by George Haggerty 9780231110426
£106.57Love in all its cultural and personal complexity is the focus of this book. While scholars of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century homoerotic culture have tended to focus on sexual behavior and the much-maligned figure of the sodomite, George E. Haggerty... -
Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques by Grace Elisabeth Lavery 9780691243924
RRP: £70.00£59.13A 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 has been experienced and represented in the modern period... -
Middlebrow Queer: Christopher Isherwood in America by Jaime Harker 9780816679140
RRP: £21.99£18.79How could one write about gay life for the mainstream public in Cold War America? Many midcentury gay American writers, hampered by external and internal censors, never managed to do it. But Christopher Isherwood did, and what makes his accomplishment... -
Lost and Found Voices: Four Gay Male Writers in Exile by Luc Beaudoin 9780228013877
RRP: £70.00£54.01One writer is stranded by the Second World War. Another flees multiple revolutions to live the rest of his life in Rio de Janeiro. Two others, public about their sexuality at home, choose self-exile. In Lost and Found Voices Luc Beaudoin offers a... -
The Poetics of Cruising: Queer Visual Culture from Whitman to Grindr by Jack Parlett 9781517911034
RRP: £97.00£82.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517911034Author Jack ParlettFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Minnesota PressPublisher University of Minnesota PressWeight(grams) 140g -
Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism by Hongwei Bao 9780367462840
RRP: £43.99£40.24This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire. It examines queer literature and visual cultures in China's post-Mao and postsocialist era to show how these... -
Mood and Trope: The Rhetoric and Poetics of Affect by John Brenkman 9780226673127
RRP: £78.00£77.67In 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... -
Identities by Kwame Anthony Appiah 9780226284392
£22.62The study of identity crosses all disciplinary borders to address such issues as the multiple interactions of race, class and gender in feminist, lesbian and gay studies, postcolonialism and globalization, and the interrelation of nationalism and... -
Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature by Peter Brooks 9780226075860
£21.26The constant call to admit guilt amounts almost to a tyranny of confession today. We demand tell-all tales in the public dramas of the courtroom, the talk shows and in print, as well as in the more private spaces of the confessional and the... -
Understanding Jim Grimsley by David Deutsch 9781611179293
RRP: £35.95£29.57Since the early 1980s, Jim Grimsley has received increasing acclaim for his achievements in a variety of dramatic and literary genres. Through his novels, plays, and short stories, Grimsley portrays an unrelenting search for happiness and interrogates... -
Gender And Sexuality In African Literature And Film by Ada Uzoamaka Azodo 9781592214693
RRP: £34.95£22.97Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592214693Author Ada Uzoamaka AzodoFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 465g -
Second Person Queer: Who You Are (So Far) by Richard Labonte 9781551522456
RRP: £17.99£12.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551522456Author Richard LabonteFormat PaperbackPage Count 223Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 378g -
Isherwood in Transit by James J. Berg 9781517909109
RRP: £22.99£19.60New perspectives on Christopher Isherwood as a searching and transnational writer "Perhaps I had traveled too much, left my heart in too many places," muses the narrator of Christopher Isherwood's novel Prater Violet (1945), which he wrote in... -
Henry James and the Queerness of Style by Kevin Ohi 9780816665112
RRP: £23.99£20.41Kevin Ohi begins this energetic book with the proposition that to read Henry James-particularly the late texts-is to confront the queer potential of style and the traces it leaves on the literary life. In contrast to other recent critics, Ohi asserts... -
Lesbian Erotics by Karla Jay 9780814742211
RRP: £80.00£68.37The question of whether lesbians have sex, how they have sex, and when they began having sex has long obsessively preoccupied the heterosexual imagination. Today, discussions of lesbian sex abound with such terms as romantic friendships, stealth... -
Inconsequence: Lesbian Representation and the Logic of Sexual Sequence by Annamarie Jagose 9780801440014
RRP: £116.00£98.54The 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... -
On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility by Ernesto Javier Martinez 9780804783392
£99.39On Making Sense juxtaposes texts produced by black, Latino, and Asian queer writers and artists to understand how knowledge is acquired and produced in contexts of racial and gender oppression. From James Baldwin's 1960s novel Another Country to Margaret... -
Andre Gide and the Second World War: A Novelist's Occupation by Jocelyn Van Tuyl 9780791467138
RRP: £72.27£63.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791467138Author Jocelyn Van TuylFormat HardbackPage Count 267Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
We Are Not Avatars: Essays, Memoirs, Manifestos by John Barton 9781989287217
RRP: £15.99£10.48Renowned poet and editor John Barton collects his most provocative essays, public lectures, and reviews produced over the past twenty-five years. Barton began publishing in an era much less attentive to queer voices. In this special book, Barton grafts... -
Queering the Way: The Loud & Queer Anthology by Darrin Hagen 9781897142585
RRP: £20.99£13.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897142585Author Darrin HagenFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Brindle and Glass Publishing, LtdPublisher Brindle and Glass Publishing,... -
Forbidden Sex, Forbidden Texts: New India's Gay Poets by Hoshang Merchant 9781138382909
RRP: £48.99£44.67The book argues that there is no monolithic homosexuality; there are only homosexualities, that is, there are as many reasons for being gay as there are gays. Some people are born gay, some have gayness thrust upon them, and some do, indeed, achieve to... -
On Reading the Will: Law & Desire in Literature & Music by Professor Jeremy Tambling 9781845194994
£105.62This book studies the will, will-power and wilfulness, the will to death or to power, and lack of will. It surveys many texts -- from Augustine, Shakespeare, Dickens, George Eliot and D H Lawrence -- in order to analyse the history of its different... -
Compañeras: Latina Lesbians (An Anthology), Lesbianas Latinoamericanas: Third Edition/Tercera Edición by Juanita Ramos 9781032335629
RRP: £29.99£28.27Originally published in 1987 and revised in 2004, Compañeras speaks with the voices of Latina lesbians who are puertorriqueñas, chicanas, cubanas, chilenas, hondureñas, brasileñas, colombianas, argentinas, peruanas, costarricenses, mexicanas,... -
Befriending the Queer Nineteenth Century: Curious Attachments by Michael Borgstrom 9780367681630
RRP: £39.99£36.71Befriending the Queer Nineteenth Century: Curious Attachments addresses a longstanding question in literary and cultural studies: how can a case be made for the ongoing value of the humanities without an articulation of that field's social effects? In... -
Vulgar Genres: Gay Pornographic Writing and Contemporary Fiction by Steven Ruszczycky 9780226788616
£83.17Vulgar 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...