LGBTQ+ Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629639147Author Z. Zane McNeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

"Martin Duberman is a national treasure."-Masha Gessen, The New Yorker The past fifty years have seen significant shifts in attitudes toward LGBTQ people and wider acceptance of them in the United States and the West. Yet the extent of this progress,...

The Middle East is often portrayed as oppressively patriarchal and homophobic. Yet, in recent years the region has become a vibrant and important arena for feminist and LGBTQ activism. This book provides an insight into this emerging politics through a...

Belgium was the second country in the world to introduce same-sex marriage. It has an elaborate legal system for protecting the rights of LGBT individuals in general and LGBT asylum seekers in particular. At the same time, since 2015 the country has...

Research into homosexuality in Spain is in its infancy. The last ten or fifteen years have seen a proliferation of studies on gender in Spain but much of this work has concentrated on women's history, literature and femininity. In contrast to existing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990636915Author Shlasko CaveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Think Again TrainingPublisher Think Again Training

In Coming Together, Ryan Powell captures the social and political vitality of the first wave of movies made by, for, and about male-desiring men in the United States between World War II and the 1980s. From the underground films of Kenneth Anger and the...

Early Andean historiography reveals a subaltern history of indigenous gender and sexuality that saw masculinity and femininity not as essential absolutes. Third-gender ritualists, Ipas, mediated between the masculine and feminine spheres of culture in...

Premodern Sexualities offers rigorous new approaches to current problems in the historiography of sexuality. From queer readings of early modern medical texts to transcribing and interrogating premodern documents of sexual transgression, the contributors...

A View from the Bottom offers a major critical reassessment of male effeminacy and its racialization in visual culture. Examining portrayals of Asian and Asian American men in Hollywood cinema, European art film, gay pornography, and experimental...

This book provides a number of effective tools to aid in the recovery of LGBTQIA historic material by providing extensive glossary and non-glossary written descriptions, and how to use those terms and phrases in searching effectively online and offline...

In WATCHNIGHT, we accompany Johnson’s unnamed protagonist on a psychedelic quest across myriad forms, places, and times marked by climate crisis, exodus, and Black trans identity-making. In exhilarating lyric poems and chiseled prose blocks, Cyrée...

Alex Reegan's incredible story of healing and growth is your call to look within and live as your most authentic self.As a trans man born into an evangelical Christian family that prevented his true identity from emerging, Alex spent years struggling...

Even with the extraordinary strides the LGBTQ movement has made in civil rights, acceptance, and visibility over the past half century, a growing portion of the community remains largely invisible, its concerns relegated to the margins. In the latest in...

In Femininity Played Straight, Biddy Martin traces the changing relations of lesbianism and feminist theory from the late 1970s to the present. These sparkling essays argue for accounts of sexuality, gender and subjectivity that make lesbianism...

The past decade has seen an extraordinary outpouring of research, writing, and talk about lesbian and gay sexuality, triggered in part by the confluence of the AIDS epidemic, the feminist sex wars, and the development of queer studies. Yet many lesbian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666730609Author Andrew RamerFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams)...

This work provides an examination of the construction of male and female homosexualities. Although the variety of behaviours, subcategories, and meanings of same-sex sex is considerable, Murray argues that there are a few recurring types. He relates the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359914791Author Peter SlaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.com

The subject of bisexuality continues to divide the lesbian and gay community. At pride marches, in films such as Go Fish, at academic conferences, the role and status of bisexuals is hotly contested. Within lesbian communities, formed to support...

This book examines gendered language use in six gay male subcultures: drag queens, radical faeries, bears, circuit boys, barebackers, and leathermen. Within each subculture, unique patterns of language use challenge normative assumptions about gender and...

What is the ace lens?Is my relationship queerplatonic?Am I sex-favorable, sex-averse or sex-repulsed?As an ace or questioning person in an oh-so-allo world, you're probably in desperate need of a cheat sheet. Allow us to introduce your new asexual best...

Words of Change: QUEER offers a curated collection of thought-provoking quotes and passages from the writings and speeches of activists and allies in the LGBTQIA+ community, with a focus on diverse and previously unheard voices. Compiled by activist...

In Queer in Russia Laurie Essig examines the formation of gay identity and community in the former Soviet Union. As a sociological fieldworker, she began her research during the late 1980s, before any kind of a public queer identity existed in that...

Gay bars have operated as the most visible institutions of the LGBTQ+ community in the United States for the better part of a century, from before gay liberation until after their assumed obsolescence. In The Bars Are Ours Lucas Hilderbrand offers a...

In this text Bernadette Brooten examines female homoeroticism and the role of women in the ancient Roman world. Employing a range of cultural sources, from medical texts to astrological horoscopes, Brooten finds evidence of marriages between women, and...

Since the onset of the HIV epidemic, the behaviour of men who have sex with men has been subject to intense scrutiny on the part of the behavioural and sociomedical sciences. What happens when we consider the work of these sciences to be not merely...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996704854Author The Nest CollectiveFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 22mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538136263Author Chris TompkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Rowman & LittlefieldPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm)...

In late nineteenth-century England, "mannish" women were considered socially deviant but not homosexual. A half-century later, such masculinity equaled lesbianism in the public imagination. How did this shift occur? Citizen, Invert, Queer illustrates...

A unique introduction to sexual and gender identity and queer studies Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people are becoming more and more visible in all aspects of American culture, from party politics to MTV videos. Despite the recent queer...

In Poetic Operations artist and theorist micha cardenas considers contemporary digital media, artwork, and poetry in order to articulate trans of color strategies for safety and survival. Drawing on decolonial theory, women of color feminism, media...

A collection of psychedelic poems inspired by Egyptian queen, Nefertiti, exploring the slippage between her image and legacy across time, place, and space.A Beauty Has Come takes the reader on a sonic exploration across desert plains and resonant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551528540Author S. Bear BergmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781613739358Author Jim ElledgeFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Chicago Review PressPublisher Chicago Review PressWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

2020 Diamond Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association The increased visibility of transgender people in mainstream media, exemplified by Time magazine's declaration that 2014 marked a "transgender tipping point," was widely...

Winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Prize presented by the GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association Finalist for the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Latina Longings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595162277Author Robin McCoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Care has re-entered the zeitgeist. In the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, #selfcare exploded across media platforms. Beyond this popular focus on self-care rituals, care has also emerged as a driving force within new collective...

Winner, 2023 Bernard S. Cohn Prize, Association for Asian Studies Winner, 2021 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences Winner, 2021 Ruth Benedict Prize, Association for Queer Anthropology Honorable Mention, 2023 Anne Bolin & Gil Herdt Book...