LGBTQ+ Studies

Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native...

Proud, happy, grateful-gay youth describe their lives in terms that would have seemed surprising only a generation ago. Yet many adults, including parents, seem skeptical about this sea change in perceptions and attitudes. Even in an age of growing...

While much attention has been paid in recent years to heterosexual prostitution and sex tourism in Brazil, gay sex tourism has been almost completely overlooked. In Tourist Attractions, Gregory C. Mitchell presents a pioneering ethnography that focuses...

Based on surveys and interviews of two hundred gay men, this study presents an examination of contemporary urban gay men's friendships. Weaving historical and sociological research on friendship with firsthand information, Nardi argues that friendship is...

These thoughtfully selected quotations have been taken from throughout history, and from a variety of voices, celebrating everything the LGBTQIA+ community has achieved. Containing words of courage, hope, and pride, they focus on inclusivity and remind...

In Loving Big Brother the author tackles head on the overstated claims of the crime-prevention and anti-terrorism lobbies. But he also argues that we desire and enjoy surveillance, and that, if we can understand why this is, we may transform the effect...

Examines forms of intimate citizenship that have emerged in relation to growing anti-homosexual violence in Kenya. Campaigns calling on police and citizens to purge their countries of homosexuality have taken hold across the world. But the "homosexual...

Examining trans- healthcare as a key site through which struggles for health and justice take shape Over the past two decades, medical and therapeutic approaches to transgender patients have changed radically, from treating a supposed pathology to...

While psychoanalysis has traditionally been at odds with transgender issues, a growing body of revisionist psychoanalytic theory and clinical practice has begun to tease out the trans-affirming potential of the field. This issue features essays that...

Shame, Kathryn Bond Stockton argues in Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame, has often been a meeting place for the signs "black" and "queer" and for black and queer people-overlapping groups who have been publicly marked as degraded and debased. But when...

Intimate Activism tells the story of Nicaraguan sexual-rights activists who helped to overturn the most repressive antisodomy law in the Americas. The law was passed shortly after the Sandinistas lost power in 1990 and, to the surprise of many, was...

Organised with a compelling narrative, this comprehensive history of the GLBT community provides a decade-by-decade overview of major issues and events such as the Harlem Renaissance, changes in military policy, the Stonewall riot, GLBT rights,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940535029Author Anna AnthropyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Boss Fight LLCPublisher Boss Fight LLC

This collection of essays focuses on historical and contemporary representations of bisexuality - both "real" and "imagined" - in literature, film and the visual arts. They ask questions concerning what it means to desire both men and women and explores...

Charts a new wave of feminist and queer media activism in post-millennial China Digital Masquerade offers a trenchant and singular analysis of the convergence of digital media, feminist and queer culture, and rights consciousness in China. Jia Tan...

LGBTQ kids reveal what it's like to be young and queer today Growing Up Queer explores the changing ways that young people are now becoming LGBT-identified in the US. Through interviews and three years of ethnographic research at an LGBTQ youth drop-in...

The period between the publication in 1957 of the liberalising Wolfenden Report and the introduction in 1987 of the homophobic Section 28 was characterised by unprecedented optimism and political activism among lesbians and gay men in Britain. But the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641800273Author Michigan State School of JournalismFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Michigan State University School of JournalismPublisher Michigan...

In Ancient Greece and Rome, in Crusader campaigns and pirate adventures, same-sex romances were a common and condoned part of military culture. From the Peloponnesian War to the Gulf War, from Achelleus to Lawrence of Arabia gays and lesbians have played...

This book provides an overview of risk and protective factors for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) youth and emerging adults to inform the clinical practice of mental health professionals who work with this population...

"Lesbianism, its flories and sorows, is the subject and quest of this marvelously erverse sentimental journey by Nightwood's author... A striking lesbian mainfesto and a deft parody." Library Journal Blending fiction, myth, and revisionary parody and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780544705234Author Michelangelo SignorileFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperOneWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *...

Who are the most significant gay icons and how did they develop? What influence do they have on gay individuals and communities? This book focuses on the superstars, femmes fatales and divas of the gay celebrity pantheon--Mae West, Julie Andrews,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385474450Author Kevin DilalloFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780943595405Author Jack RicardoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Leyland Publications,U.S.Publisher Leyland Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 280g

Families in Transition: Parenting Gender Diverse Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults is a compilation of clinically oriented articles, research, and case material authored by mental health and medical experts, both nationally and internationally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262545952Author Alexander MoneaFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

African American men who have sex with men while maintaining a heterosexual lifestyle in public are attracting increasing interest from both the general media and scholars. Commonly referred to as "down low" or "DL" men, many continue to have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998909806Author Jordy JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Fair Page Media, LLCPublisher Fair Page Media, LLCWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

In 1997 it will be thirty years since the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 made sex between two men aged over 21 in private no longer a crime. It also marks the seventieth birthday of Antony Grey, who was one of the leading campaigners for homosexual law...

Sexual Disorientations brings some of the most recent and significant works of queer theory into conversation with the overlapping fields of biblical, theological and religious studies to explore the deep theological resonances of questions about the...

Dancing Motherhood explores how unique factors about the dance profession impact pregnant women and mothers working in it.Ali Duffy introduces the book by laying a foundation of social and cultural histories and systemic structures and power that shape...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsRunner-up for IndieFab awards (Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction) 2005.Book InformationISBN 9781551521893Author Daniel GawthropFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Arsenal Pulp...

The attraction of a wink, a nod, a discarded snapshot - such feelings permeate our lives, yet we usually dismiss them as insubstantial or meaningless. With "The Logic of the Lure", John Paul Ricco argues that it is precisely such fleeting, erotic and...

In the 14th century, a considerable number of men in Germany and Switzerland were executed for committing sodomy. In the 17th century, simply speaking of the act was cause for censorship. Here, in the first ever history of sodomy in these countries,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434362995Author Travis GibsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 756g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398401310Author Steven KempFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578790473Author Paul KellyFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Box Twelve PressPublisher Box Twelve PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807051153Author Joey MogulFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 329gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 16mm

Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Monograph from the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities Section Winner of the...