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Forbidden Sex, Forbidden Texts: New India's Gay Poets by Hoshang Merchant 9781138382909
RRP: $95.53$83.19The 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
$198.14This 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: $58.48$52.73Originally 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: $77.98$68.37Befriending 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
$154.89Vulgar 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... -
I Like It Like That: True Stories of Gay Male Desire by Richard Labonte 9781551522593
RRP: $31.18$20.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551522593Author Richard LabonteFormat PaperbackPage Count 239Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 311g -
Befriending the Queer Nineteenth Century: Curious Attachments by Michael Borgstrom
RRP: $263.25$228.70Befriending 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... -
The Homoerotic Photograph: Male Images from Durieu/Delacroix to Mapplethorpe by Allen Ellenzweig
RRP: $81.90$65.19Allen Ellenzweig traces the male gaze upon men as captured by the camera throughout the history of photography. More than one hundred striking, provocative duotone photographs reflect a wide-ranging history of photographic male homoeroticism and the... -
Misfit Modernism: Queer Forms of Double Exile in the Twentieth-Century Novel by Octavio R. González
RRP: $165.65$143.75In this book, Octavio R. González revisits the theme of alienation in the twentieth-century novel, identifying an alternative aesthetic centered on the experience of double exile, or marginalization from both majority and home culture. This misfit... -
Postcolonial, Queer: Theoretical Intersections by John C. Hawley
RRP: $52.59$45.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791450925Author John C. HawleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Render Me, Gender Me: Lesbians Talk Sex, Class, Color, Nation, Studmuffins by Kath Weston
$62.89In day-to-day life, people often act as if they know exactly what they mean by boys and girls, masculine and feminine, butch and femme. Render Me, Gender Me challenges comfortable assumptions about gender by weaving Kath Weston's own thought-provoking... -
Body Talk: Philosophical Reflections on Sex and Gender by Jacquelyn Zita
$63.73-- Christa Davis Acampora, HypatiaBook InformationISBN 9780231105439Author Jacquelyn ZitaFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press -
Hidden in the Blood: A Personal Investigation of AIDS in the Yucatan by Carter Wilson
RRP: $54.60$41.65-- Paul Farmer, Medical Anthropology QuarterlyBook InformationISBN 9780231101912Author Carter WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press -
The Language of the In-Between: Transvestism, Subalternity, and Writing in Contemporary Chile and Peru by Erika Almenara
RRP: $72.15$59.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822947271Author Erika AlmenaraFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh PressWeight(grams)... -
The Book of Sodom by Paul Hallam
RRP: $38.98$32.96The biblical story of the destruction of Sodom has inspired countless literary visions. The city has elicited writing from Milton, Sade, Proust, Dostoevsky and Tournier, among others. This work contains an anthology of Sodom texts spanning several... -
Experiencing HIV: Personal, Family, and Work Relationships by Barry D. Adam
RRP: $195.00$149.39-- Gary Kinsman, author of The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero SexualitiesBook InformationISBN 9780231101202Author Barry D. AdamFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press -
Other Women: Lesbian/Bisexual Experience and Psychoanalytic Views of Women by Beverly Burch
$71.80-- Dr. April Martin, author of The Lesbian and Gay Parenting HandbookBook InformationISBN 9780231106030Author Beverly BurchFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press -
Poetry Is Queer by J Kirby
RRP: $31.18$20.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781989287866Author J KirbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Palimpsest PressPublisher Palimpsest PressWeight(grams) 399g -
Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder by Beth Loffreda
RRP: $37.03$29.45The infamous murder in October 1998 of a twenty-one-year-old gay University of Wyoming student ignited a media frenzy. The crime resonated deeply with America's bitter history of violence against minorities, and something about Matt Shepard himself... -
Female Desires: Same-Sex Relations and Transgender Practices Across Cultures by Evelyn Blackwood
RRP: $58.50$44.50Evelyn Blackwood and Saskia Wieringa have compiled thirteen essays from a group of historians, sociologists, and anthropologists who discuss same-sex desire among women outside the West, exploring female eroticism in such societies and cultures as India,... -
Lesbian Panic: Homoeroticism in Modern British Women's Fiction by Patricia Smith
RRP: $54.60$41.65In many works by modern British women writers, two women form a strong bond only to have that relationship stymied, paralyzed or interrupted. A female character, fearing discovery of covert lesbian desires, lashes out at another woman, resulting in... -
Queer Atlantic: Masculinity, Mobility, and the Emergence of Modernist Form by Daniel Hannah
RRP: $52.63$40.70The instability of modernist form has everything to do with the social, political, and economic shakeups of the nineteenth century that left masculinity a site of contestation, racial anxiety, homophobic paranoia, performative display, and queer desire... -
Heterosexual Plots and Lesbian Narratives by Marilyn R. Farwell
RRP: $54.58$46.14What is lesbian literature? Must it contain overtly lesbian characters, and portray them in a positive light? Must the author be overtly (or covertly) lesbian? Does there have to be a lesbian theme and must it be politically acceptable? Marilyn Farwell... -
Pinks, Pansies, and Punks: The Rhetoric of Masculinity in American Literary Culture by James Penner
RRP: $46.78$39.80From the author: There is one last issue that needs to be sorted out: I noticed the product description on Amazon has one error. The following sentence from the product description needs to be eliminated: "He examines the macho criticism that... -
Queering the Canon - Defying Sights in German Literature and Culture by Christoph Lorey
RRP: $204.75$195.88This collection of twenty-three essays sets its sights on the points of queerness, marginality, and alterity already present within the German canon and introduces further difference and deviation in the form of openly gay German literature in order to... -
Sapphism on Screen: Lesbian Desire in French and Francophone Cinema by Lucille Cairns
RRP: $195.00$174.31This book sets out to investigate and theorise mediations of lesbian desire in a substantial corpus of films (spanning the period 1936-2002) by male and female directors working in France and also in French-speaking parts of Belgium, Canada, Switzerland... -
Filial Crisis and Erotic Politics in Black Cuban - Daughters, Sons, and Lovers by Conrad Michael James
RRP: $136.50$131.12This book proposes an affective reading of twentieth-century Afro-Cuban literature through its focus on a set of concerns ranging from the filial to the erotic. Existing scholarship on black Cuban literature tends to privilege national political and... -
Queer Representations: Reading Lives, Reading Cultures (A Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Book) by Martin Duberman
RRP: $54.58$46.92Queer Representations celebrates the eclectic, diverse nature of gay and lesbian culture and its production. The volume begins by asking how we can interpret an image--is the image homosexual and if so, how can we understand it? Closely connected to... -
Sexual Sameness: Textual Differences in Lesbian and Gay Writing by Joseph Bristow
RRP: $85.78$74.96First published in 1992, Sexual Sameness examines the differing textual strategies male and female writers have developed to celebrate homosexuality. Examining such writers as E.M. Forster, James Baldwin, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Audre Lourde, this... -
Come as You Are: Sexuality and Narrative by Judith Roof
RRP: $185.25$142.06Roof's ambitious, wide-ranging book links narrative theory, theories of sexuality, and gay and lesbian theory to explore the place of homosexuality, and specifically the lesbian, in the tradition of western narrative. According to Freud, perversions are... -
De Los Otros: Intimacy and Homosexuality Among Mexican Men by Joseph Carrier
RRP: $195.00$149.39A detailed description of sexual practices and bonds among Latino males in Guadalajara, Mexico using a combination of ethnographic techniques and participant observations.Book InformationISBN 9780231096928Author Joseph CarrierFormat HardbackPage Count... -
On Making Sense: Queer Race Narratives of Intelligibility by Ernesto Javier Martinez
RRP: $42.88$36.64On 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... -
Sexual Encounters: Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities by Lee Wallace
RRP: $62.40$53.96European literary, artistic, and anthropological representation has long viewed the Pacific as the site of heterosexual pleasures. The received wisdom of these accounts is based on the idea of female bodies unrestrained by civilization. In a revisionist... -
Forbidden Sex, Forbidden Texts: New India's Gay Poets by Hoshang Merchant
RRP: $253.50$218.61The 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... -
Contact Moments - The Politics of Intercultural Desire in Japanese Male-Queer Cultures by Katsuhiko Suganuma
$43.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888083718Author Katsuhiko SuganumaFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Hong Kong University PressPublisher Hong Kong University PressWeight(grams) 362g -
Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research by Timothy F. Murphy
RRP: $179.40$138.41Gay Science is the first comprehensive examination of the ethical questions surrounding sexual orientation research. Bioethicist Timothy Murphy presents the views of many gay men and women who detect ominous motives behind this research. If a genetic... -
Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History by Scott Herring
RRP: $62.40$60.66At the start of the twentieth century, tales of "how the other half lives" experienced a surge in popularity. People looking to go slumming without leaving home turned to these narratives for spectacular revelations of the underworld and sordid... -
Kinesic Humor: Literature, Embodied Cognition, and the Dynamics of Gesture by Guillemette Bolens
RRP: $144.30$131.25The triggers of laughter in spoken language or conversation can often be very simple, such as a change in gesture, or in vocal tone or tempo. Speakers and listeners understand these dynamics of gesture through motor cognition and use them to great effect... -
Shadows & Illuminations: Literature as Spiritual Journey by John Neary
$198.14This book examines literary texts from various genres -- prose fiction, plays, film -- in order to explore the way dark and enlightening spiritual journeys are presented in literature. Combining literary criticism with Jungian approaches, the analysis... -
Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries by Karen Tongson
RRP: $54.58$46.14What queer lives, loves and possibilities teem within suburbia's little boxes? Moving beyond the imbedded urban/rural binary, Relocations offers the first major queer cultural study of sexuality, race and representation in the suburbs. Focusing on the...