LGBTQ+ Studies

Traditionally, historic women have been seen as bound by social conventions, unable to travel unless accompanied and limited in their ability to do what they want when they want. But thousands of women broke those rules, put on banned clothing and...

Penelope Fitzgerald's fascinating portrait of the tragic poet and her life at the heart of the Bloomsbury set. Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) cut one of the most distinctive figures of the twentieth century - beloved of Siegfried Sassoon and Walter...

It's closing time for an alarming number of gay bars in cities around the globe-but it's definitely not the last danceIn this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, acclaimed author Amin Ghaziani...

'Femme' describes a constellation of queer, gendered expressions that uproot expectations of what it means to be feminine. Transfeminists take their experiences of desire, belonging and harm to create collective power through femininity, fighting for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804170390Author Moises KaufmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

In 1920's Berlin, the recovered diaries of transgender model Heike expose her as the mysterious muse and subject behind Christian Schad's best-known painting. After signing her Gender Recognition Certificate, a trans woman channels the offbeat glamour of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088108468Author Michelle MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

After explaining 'What is transgender?' this first book on transgender in a prison setting looks at the entire HM Prison Service regime for such people. Ranging from hard information about rules and regulations, the transition process and how to access...

Provides a variety of queer, interdisciplinary interventions upon the social and legal regulation of sex, gender, reproduction, and family. In Enticements, an exceptional group of interdisciplinary scholars comes together to contribute to the field of...

Ten years after its original publication, Roman Homosexuality remains the definitive statement of this interesting but often misunderstood aspect of Roman culture. Learned yet accessible, the book has reached both students and general readers with an...

The alphabet mafia? The queer umbrella? A little confused by--or curious about--the terminology and identities that make up the LGBTQIA+ community?For allies and queer folks alike, this visual introduction uses bright and fabulous illustrations to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984857644Author Jamal JordanFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/RodaleWeight(grams) 890gDimensions(mm)...

'Rae McDaniel is a leader in their generation, matching compassion with clear-sighted vision for a sex-positive future' Emily Nagoski, PhD, author of Come As You Are and BurnoutTaking everything they know from more than a decade of working with the queer...

For decades, the history of sexuality has been a multidisciplinary project serving competing agendas. Lesbian, gay, and queer scholars have produced powerful narratives by tracing the continuity of homosexual or queer subject as continuous or...

J. Edgar Hoover, Joseph McCarthy, and Roy Cohn were titanic figures in midcentury America, wielding national power in government and the legal system through intimidation and insinuation. Hoover's FBI thrived on secrecy, threats, and illegal...

`My work has had nothing to do with gay liberation,' Michel Foucault reportedly told an admirer in 1975. And indeed there is scarcely more than a passing mention of homosexuality in Foucault's scholarly writings. So why has Foucault, who died of AIDS in...

AN EXTRAORDINARILY MOVING AND ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF GROWING UP GAY AND DISABLED IN 1980S LONDONSHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2023 When Emmett de Monterey is eighteen months old, a doctor diagnoses him with cerebral palsy. Words...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692968482Author Phillip WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint MB Books LLCPublisher MB Books LLCWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

Featuring critical essays, erotica, and stitched-up memories, Gender/Fucking explores sexual arousal as a site of knowledge about the self and world.Taking the idea of intellectual masturbation a bit too literally, Florence Ashley draws on their...

For most of us, learning abstract philosophical concepts involves literally learning a new language, a language that the initiated converse in with ease but which leaves the rest of us baffled. The SCM Studyguide to Philosophy and Christian Faith aims to...

First published in Italian in 1977, Mario Mieli's groundbreaking book is an early landmark of revolutionary queer theory - now available for the first time in a complete and unabridged English translation. Among the most important works ever to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498218795Author Linn Marie TonstadFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Hold On to Your Dreams is the first biography of the musician and composer Arthur Russell, one of the most important but least known contributors to New York's downtown music scene during the 1970s and 1980s. With the exception of a few dance recordings,...

This book is about the Stonewall Riots, a series of spontaneous, often violent demonstrations by members of the gay (LGBTQ+) community in reaction to a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in the...

Black artists of the avant-garde have always defined the future. Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture is the culmination of six years of multidisciplinary research by trans poet and curator Anais Duplan about the aesthetic strategies used by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916019409Author Jeffrey DudgeonFormat PaperbackPage Count 804Imprint Belfast PressPublisher Belfast PressWeight(grams) 1102gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm...

This groundbreaking book provides a challenging exploration of psychoanalytic ideas about lesbians and lesbianism. Based on the authors' clinical experience as psychoanalytic psychotherapists, it offers a new and thoughtful framework that does not...

If race is increasingly understood to be socially constructed, why does it continue to seem like a physiological reality? The trickery of race, Sita Balani argues, comes down to how it is embedded in everyday life through the domain we take to be most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807013793Author Angela ChenFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Volume I offers historiographical surveys and general overviews of central topics in the history of world sexualities. Split across twenty-two chapters, this volume places the history of sexuality in dialogue with anthropology, women's history, LGBTQ+...

The Gay Liberation Front founded in 1970 urged gay men and gay women to unite around a simple set of demands among which were calls for an end to discrimination against homosexuals in employment, in sex education, in the age of consent and in being...

Children are thoroughly, shockingly queer, as Kathryn Bond Stockton explains in The Queer Child, where she examines children's strangeness, even some children's subliminal "gayness," in the twentieth century. Estranging, broadening, darkening forms of...

"These sentences-they-will begin having already been sentences somewhere else, and this will mark their afterlife, and this will be their debut." So begins Renee Gladman's latest interdisciplinary project, Plans for Sentences. A tour de force of dizzying...

Drawing on theory from a range of schools of psychoanalytic thought, this timely book addresses and explores the phenomenon of the increasing number of people who were assigned female at birth and now identify as male, and what might underly the cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957236172Author Patrick C NotchtreeFormat PaperbackPage Count 522Imprint Limebury BooksPublisher Limebury BooksWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Joyful, wild, gay stories from award winning Martin Goodman. Meet his cast of characters: New York designer Arnold, whose lovely life blossoms from age 7. We watch him grow famous then learn from the bumps of life. A young priest who leaves uptight...

In imperial China, people moved away from the gender they were assigned at birth in different ways and for many reasons. Eunuchs, boy actresses, and clergy left behind normative gender roles defined by family and procreation. "Stone maidens"-women deemed...

This powerful, moving story-which has already touched more than seven million through a viral video created by the Whittington family-is a mother's first-hand account of her emotional choice to embrace her transgender child. When Hillary and Jeff...

From award-winning author Alex Gino comes a groundbreaking novel for children about how important the past can be those trying to create a different future. Sam is very in touch with their own queer identity. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068644610Format PaperbackImprint The 87 PressPublisher The 87 Press