Gay Studies

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

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...

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 1863, San Francisco's Board of Supervisors passed a law that criminalized appearing in public in "a dress not belonging to his or her sex." Adopted as part of a broader anti-indecency campaign, the cross-dressing law became a flexible tool for...

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...

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...

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 9781890951290Author Michael WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 25mm

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 9780226322346Author Dan HealeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 568g

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Gay Memoir/Biography) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781584351238Author Didier EribonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Semiotext...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679732273Author David WojnarowiczFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 278gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Only fifty years ago, sex between men was a crime. The 1967 Sexual Offences Act changed that in part, but it was only the beginning of the long fight for equality in the eyes of the law, in society and in millions of private lives. This vital new oral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034361510Author Oskar LeonardFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471740490Author Richard A. IsayFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551522296Author Louis-Georges TinFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 933g

It's here and it's queer - popular culture inhabits all our lives, whether it comes in the form of movies or magazines, TV or shopping. A Queer Romance brings together critics, writers and artists to debate the possibilites of popular culture for...

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...

Winner, 2021 Glenda Laws Award given by the American Association of Geographers The first lesbian and queer historical geography of New York City Over the past few decades, rapid gentrification in New York City has led to the disappearance of many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781581124521Author Kenneth CiminoFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Universal PublishersPublisher Universal PublishersWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

One doesn't usually associate thriving queer culture with rural America, but John Howard's history of queer life in the South seeks to debunk the myth that same-sex desires can't find expression outside the big city. In fact, this book shows that the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732134409Author Don SheweyFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Joybody BooksPublisher Joybody BooksWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 12mm

In Sissy Insurgencies Marlon B. Ross focuses on the figure of the sissy in order to rethink how Americans have imagined, articulated, and negotiated manhood and boyhood from the 1880s to the present. Rather than collapsing sissiness into homosexuality,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438484105Author Stephen O. MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 374Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Part political thriller, part meditation on social change, part love story, The Children of Harvey Milk tells the epic stories of courageous men and women around the world who came forward to make their voices heard during the struggle for equal rights. ...

In 2012 and 2013, masses of French citizens took to the streets to demonstrate against a bill on gay marriage. But demonstrators were not merely denouncing its damaging effects; they were also claiming that its origins lay in "gender theory," an ideology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647646240Author Harry TrotterFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Atmosphere PressPublisher Atmosphere PressWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250621405Author Hugh RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

Get the inside story on a single gay man's struggle to adopt! Fatherhood for Gay Men: An Emotional and Practical Guide to Becoming a Gay Dad is the story of one man's journey down the road less traveleda single gay man adopting and raising his two sons...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400078660Author Andrew SullivanFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 307gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

A unique anthology bringing together stories of queer life from international playwrights, these seven plays showcase the dazzling multiplicity of queer narratives across the globe: the absurd, the challenging, and the joyful. From the legacy of...

Using interdisciplinary performance studies and cultural studies frameworks, Laura G. Gutierrez examines the cultural representation of queer sexuality in the contemporary cultural production of Mexican female and Chicana performance and visual artists...

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...

Why is bisexuality the object of such scepticism? Why do sexologists steer clear of it in their research? Why has bisexuality, in stark contrast to homosexuality, only recently emerged as a nascent political and cultural identity? Bisexuality has been...

Research has shown that since the turn of the millennia, matters have rapidly improved for gays and lesbians in sport. Where gay and lesbian athletes were merely tolerated a decade ago, today they are celebrated. This book represents the most...

Sexuality, religion and faith often have complex and conflicting interactions, on both personal and societal levels. Numerous studies have been conducted on queer subjects, but they have predominantly focused on 'Western' expressions of faith and queer...