Gay Studies

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770410282Author Chris KanyonFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,CanadaWeight(grams) 662g

In this long-awaited book, David M. Halperin revisits and refines the argument he put forward in his classic One Hundred Years of Homosexuality: that hetero- and homosexuality are not biologically constituted but are, instead, historically and culturally...

She's skinny, white, and blond. She's Barbie-an icon of femininity to generations of American girls. She's also multiethnic and straight-or so says Mattel, Barbie's manufacturer. But, as Barbie's Queer Accessories demonstrates, many girls do things with...

In Shimmering Images Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of change. Drawing on Barthes's idea of the "shimmer" and Foucault's notion of sex as a mirage, the author shows...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986263309Author Rigoglioso L RaymondFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Rigoglioso Inc.Publisher Rigoglioso Inc.Weight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Lambda Literary Awards (Spirituality) 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780874779660Author Christian de la HuertaFormat PaperbackPage Count 233Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438459042Author Amy L. StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Marking the tenth anniversary of Tim Dean's Unlimited Intimacy, Raw returns to the question of sex without condoms, or barebacking, a timely topic in the age of PrEP, a drug that virtually eliminates the transmission of HIV. "Essential reading for anyone...

In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family--the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes--all from Asian American, immigrant, and queer perspectives. Holding all...

"At various times, homosexuality has been considered the noblest of loves, a horrible sin, a psychological condition or grounds for torture and execution. David F. Greenberg's careful, encyclopedic and important new book argues that homosexuality is only...

Asked about queer work in international relations, most IR scholars would almost certainly answer that queer studies is a non-issue for the subdiscipline -- a topic beyond the scope and understanding of international politics. Yet queer work tackles...

For around a hundred years up to the Stonewall riots, the word used for gay men was 'queers'. In The Culture of Queers, Richard Dyer traces the contours of queer culture, examining the differences and continuities with the gay culture which succeeded it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226322346Author Dan HealeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 568g

Imagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Embraced by activists in the early 1990s to advocate for gender-variant people, the category...

In Reframing Bodies, Roger Hallas illuminates the capacities of film and video to bear witness to the cultural, political, and psychological imperatives of the AIDS crisis. He explains how queer films and videos made in response to the AIDS epidemics in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780368009501Author Elisa RolleFormat HardbackPage Count 468Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 789gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830836260Author Andrew MarinFormat PaperbackImprint IVP BooksWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807079195Author Warren BlumenfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 439gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679746140Author Andrew SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Henry Willson was one of the quintessential power brokers in Hollywood during the late 1940s and 1950s when he launched the careers of Rock Hudson, Lana Turner, Tab Hunter, Natalie Wood, and many others. He was also a true casting couch agent, brokering...

In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of dispossession, precarity, and the differential distribution of life chances. Despite this shift, queer theory finds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907133947Author Nicola FieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Dog Horn PublishingPublisher Dog Horn Publishing

'A grisly, sobering, comprehensively researched new history.' - The New YorkerIndecent Advances is a skilful hybrid of true crime and social history that examines the often-coded portrayal of crimes against gay men in the decades before Stonewall. New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999701607Author Dee MichelFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Dark Ink PressPublisher Dark Ink PressWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This book provides the first comprehensive examination of the urban phenomenon known as Ballroom culture that first gained notoriety in the documentary Paris Is Burning in 1990. Butch Queens Up in Pumps uniquely explores the ways in which Black LGBT...

In early 20th-century China, age-old traditions of homosocial and homoerotic relationships between women suddenly became an issue of widespread public concern. Discussed formerly in terms of friendship and sisterhood, these relations came to be...

As London emerged from the devastation of the Second World War, planners and policymakers sought to rebuild the city in ways that would reshape the behavior of its citizens as much as it would its buildings and infrastructure-a program defined by a...

Though the interpretations of the interplay between sexism and capitalism, between the personal and the political, vary across this spectacularly wide ranging collection, each essay shares two fundamental premises. First, that the oppression of gays and...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780142181003Author Dan SavageFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 243g

How do we represent the experience of being a gender and sexual outlaw? In Queer Forms, Ramzi Fawaz explores how the central values of 1970s movements for women's and gay liberation-including consciousness-raising, separatism, and coming out of the...

In Queer Activism in India, Naisargi Dave examines the formation of lesbian communities in India from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with activist organizations in Delhi, a body of letters written by lesbian...

Growth and Intimacy for Gay Men: A Workbook is an educational workbook for gay men that covers a variety of topics, including family of origin, addiction, self-image, dating and relationships, AIDS and multiple loss, and spirituality. Each chapter...

Martyred saints, Moors, Jews, viragoes, hermaphrodites, sodomites, kings, queens, and cross-dressers comprise the fascinating mosaic of historical and imaginative figures unearthed in Queer Iberia. The essays in this volume describe and analyze the...

Since queer theory originated in the early 1990s, its insights and modes of analysis have been taken up by scholars across the humanities and social sciences. In After Sex? prominent contributors to the development of queer studies offer personal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946307838Author Peter SanlonFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint The Latimer TrustPublisher The Latimer TrustWeight(grams) 84gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

If homosexual behavior is an aberration from the standpoint of reproduction, why is it widespread among humans, primates, and a myriad of other animal species, and why has it been favored by evolution? And if homosexuality is considered a moral problem...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807041338Author Ann PellegriniFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Focused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, After Love illuminates the ways that everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and subjectivities. Anthropologist Noelle M. Stout arrived in...

Queering India is the first book to provide an understanding of same-sex love and eroticism in Indian culture and society. The essays focus on pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial gay and lesbian life in India to provide a comprehensive look at a...