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Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research by Timothy F. Murphy
RRP: $118.68$91.56Gay 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: $41.28$40.13At 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: $95.46$86.83The 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
$131.08This 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: $36.11$30.52What 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... -
Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role by Andrew Elfenbein
RRP: $36.12$27.55Surprisingly little has been written about homosexuality in British Romantic writing, and, similarly, little discussion has emerged about homosexual themes in the lives and poetic careers of the major Romantics. In Romantic Genius, Andrew Elfenbein... -
The Queer Renaissance: Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities by Robert McRuer
RRP: $36.11$30.52Before 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... -
Andre Gide and the Second World War: A Novelist's Occupation by Jocelyn Van Tuyl
RRP: $32.91$28.66Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791467145Author Jocelyn Van TuylFormat PaperbackPage Count 267Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
Angelwings: Contemporary Queer Fiction from Taiwan by Fran Martin 9780824826611
RRP: $27.03$22.15Lesbian and gay - or queer - fiction (known in Mandarin as tongzhi wenxue) constitutes a major contribution to Taiwanese literature, as evidenced by the remarkable number of prestigious literary awards won by many of the authors of the short stories... -
All Y'all: Queering Southernness in US Fiction, 1980-2020 Heidi Siegrist 9781469682815
RRP: $36.06$30.65The South is often perceived as a haunted place in its region's literature, one that is strange, deviant, or ""queer."" The peculiar, often sexually charged literary worlds of contemporary writers like Fannie Flagg, Monique Truong, and Randall Kenan... -
LGBTQ+ Literature in the West: From Ancient Times to the Twenty-First Century Dr Robert C. Evans 9781350371866
RRP: $37.40$31.79A survey, within one volume, of the history of critical responses to LGBTQ literature from the beginning to the present day, this book explores changes in attitudes, literature and criticism over a period of two and a half thousand years. For various... -
Richard Burton, T.E. Lawrence and the Culture of Homoerotic Desire: Orientalist Depictions of Arab Sexuality Dr Feras Alkabani 9781784535698
RRP: $116.10$98.69In the 19th and early 20thcenturies, the Arab-speaking regions of the Ottoman Empire saw a crucial change in attitudes towards sexuality. Notions of ‘respectability’, ‘propriety’ and ‘sexual morality’ were being transformed in literary and cultural... -
All Y'all: Queering Southernness in US Fiction, 1980-2020 Heidi Siegrist 9781469682808
RRP: $126.42$107.46The South is often perceived as a haunted place in its region's literature, one that is strange, deviant, or ""queer."" The peculiar, often sexually charged literary worlds of contemporary writers like Fannie Flagg, Monique Truong, and Randall Kenan...