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After Marriage Equality: The Future of LGBT Rights by Carlos A. Ball 9781479883080
RRP: £74.00£65.45Examines the impact of marriage equality on the future of LGBT rights In persuading the Supreme Court that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, the LGBT rights movement has achieved its most important objective of the last few decades... -
Queer Forms by Ramzi Fawaz 9781479829828
RRP: £74.00£64.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781479829828Author Ramzi FawazFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint New York University PressPublisher New York University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
Daddies of a Different Kind: Sex and Romance Between Older and Younger Adult Gay Men by Tony Silva 9781479817023
RRP: £74.00£64.45An intimate look at gay and bisexual daddies and their younger partners Over the past several years the term “daddy” has increased in popularity. Although the term has existed for centuries, its meaning has changed over time, and today can refer to... -
Enticements: Queer Legal Studies by Joseph J. Fischel 9781479807598
RRP: £99.00£85.74Provides 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... -
Pride Parades: How a Parade Changed the World by Katherine McFarland Bruce 9781479803613
RRP: £74.00£64.85On June 28, 1970, two thousand gay and lesbian activists in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago paraded down the streets of their cities in a new kind of social protest, one marked by celebration, fun, and unashamed declaration of a stigmatized identity... -
The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus by Petrus Liu 9781478016793
RRP: £83.00£72.11In 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... -
Turning Archival: The Life of the Historical in Queer Studies by Daniel Marshall 9781478015345
RRP: £91.00£79.32The contributors to Turning Archival trace the rise of "the archive" as an object of historical desire and study within queer studies and examine how it fosters historical imagination and knowledge. Highlighting the growing significance of the... -
Long Term: Essays on Queer Commitment by Scott Herring 9781478013327
RRP: £85.00£73.81The contributors to Long Term use the tension between the popular embrace and legalization of same-sex marriage and the queer critique of homonormativity as an opportunity to examine the myriad forms of queer commitments and their durational aspect. They... -
Virgin Envy: The Cultural (In)Significance of the Hymen by Jonathan A. Allan 9780889774230
RRP: £18.99£18.31Virgin Envy sets out to re-conceive the ways that we describe and relate to virginity as a cultural construct. Who is a virgin? How do we lose our virginities? What if we regret our "first time"? Contributors to Virgin Envy everything from medieval... -
I Could Not Speak My Heart: Education and Social Justice for Gay and Lesbian Youth by James McNinch 9780889771789
RRP: £18.99£18.71This anthology documents the pain and misunderstanding that Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Two-spirited, and Queer people have experienced in the very recent past; it also demonstrates the real progress, both in theory and in practice, that has... -
Smash the Church, Smash the State!: The Early Years of Gay Liberation by Tommi Avicolli Mecca 9780872864979
RRP: £14.99£13.08This anthology by former members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) captures the history and spirit of the revolutionary time just after Stonewall, when thousands came out of the closet to claim their sexuality, and when queer resistance coalesced into a... -
Same Sex: Debating the Ethics, Science, and Culture of Homosexuality by John Corvino 9780847684823
RRP: £25.00£20.75Same Sex is the most comprehensive anthology on homosexuality available. It goes beyond other classroom readers to explore historical conceptions of homosexuality, homosexual identity, and a variety of public policy issues, ranging from gay marriage to... -
Disturbing Attachments: Genet, Modern Pederasty, and Queer History by Kadji Amin 9780822368892
RRP: £85.00£73.81Jean Genet (1910-1986) resonates, perhaps more than any other canonical queer figure from the pre-Stonewall past, with contemporary queer sensibilities attuned to a defiant non-normativity. Not only sexually queer, Genet was also a criminal and a social... -
Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies by Joanne Barker 9780822363392
RRP: £85.00£73.81Critically 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... -
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare 9780822360162
RRP: £83.00£72.11First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the... -
Queer Marxism in Two Chinas by Petrus Liu 9780822359722
RRP: £85.00£73.81In Queer Marxism in Two Chinas Petrus Liu rethinks the relationship between Marxism and queer cultures in mainland China and Taiwan. Whereas many scholars assume the emergence of queer cultures in China signals the end of Marxism and demonstrates China's... -
Tacit Subjects: Belonging and Same-Sex Desire among Dominican Immigrant Men by Carlos Ulises Decena 9780822349266
RRP: £89.00£77.22Tacit Subjects is a pioneering analysis of how gay immigrant men of color negotiate race, sexuality, and power in their daily lives. Drawing on ethnographic research with Dominicans in New York City, Carlos Ulises Decena explains that while the men who... -
Homophobias: Lust and Loathing across Time and Space by David A. B. Murray 9780822345824
RRP: £85.00£73.81What is it about "the homosexual" that incites vitriolic rhetoric and violence around the world? How and why do some people hate queers? Does homophobia operate differently across social, political, and economic terrains? What are the... -
The Straight Line: How the Fringe Science of Ex-Gay Therapy Reoriented Sexuality by Tom Waidzunas 9780816696147
RRP: £78.00£67.86To be taken seriously, therapies that claim to "cure" homosexuality wrap themselves in lab coats. Even though the fit is bad, and such therapies and their theorists now inhabit the scientific fringe, the science of sexuality has made some... -
Queer Mobilizations: LGBT Activists Confront the Law by Mary Bernstein 9780814791318
RRP: £28.99£24.96Fighting for marriage and family rights; protection from discrimination in employment, education, and housing; criminal law reform; economic justice; and health care reform: the LGBT movement is engaged in some of the most important cultural and... -
Straights: Heterosexuality in Post-Closeted Culture by James Joseph Dean 9780814764596
RRP: £24.99£21.67Explores how straight Americans make sense of their sexual and gendered selves Since the Stonewall Riots in 1969, the politics of sexual identity in America have drastically transformed. It's almost old news that recent generations of Americans have... -
Straights: Heterosexuality in Post-Closeted Culture by James Joseph Dean 9780814762752
£89.88Since the Stonewall Riots in 1969, the politics of sexual identity in America have drastically transformed. It's almost old news that recent generations of Americans have grown up in a culture more accepting of out lesbians and gay men, seen the... -
The Lavender Vote: Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals in American Electoral Politics by Mark Hertzog 9780814735305
RRP: £23.99£20.84Traces the influences of lesbian, gay and bisexual voters in American elections In the half century since the Stonewall riots in New York City's Greenwich Village launched the national gay-rights movement in earnest, LGB voters have steadily expanded... -
The Gay '90s: Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Formations in Queer Studies by Thomas Foster 9780814726730
RRP: £24.99£21.67Queer theory arose as a challenge to the stability of sexual categories. But is queer theory in the 1990s in danger of becoming just another category of theoretical inquiry and just another academic discipline? As queer studies is being legitimated... -
When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage by M. V. Lee Badgett 9780814709306
RRP: £23.99£20.84Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Psychological Association's 44th Division (the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues) The summer of 2008 was the summer of love and commitment... -
The Pink and the Black: Homosexuals in France Since 1968 by Frederic Martel 9780804732741
RRP: £29.99£26.90This book examines the development of France's male and female homosexual communities and its gay liberation movements after 1968. The book focuses on the construction of social institutions, treating gay activist organizations and their relation to... -
P.S. Burn This Letter Please: The fabulous and fraught birth of modern drag, in the queens' own words by Craig Olsen 9780751585926
RRP: £14.99£11.44With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha VelourTheir greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New York, a group of drag pioneers found work in a small number of Lower East Side clubs. They occupied the margins of society,... -
Sexual Identities, Queer Politics by Mark Blasius 9780691058672
RRP: £50.00£39.12In this collection, political and public policy analysts explore the social concerns of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and the transgendered--what has come to be known as "lgbt" or "queer" politics. Compared to the humanities and to other social sciences,... -
Queer Kinship: South African Perspectives on the Sexual politics of Family-making and Belonging by Tracy Morison 9780367777401
RRP: £39.99£35.06What makes kinship queer? This collection from leading and emerging thinkers in gender and sexualities interrogates the politics of belonging, shining a light on the outcasts, rebels, and pioneers. Queer Kinship brings together an array of... -
Ftm: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society by Aaron Devor 9780253022868
RRP: £35.00£31.74In this ground-breaking study, Aaron Devor provides a compassionate, intimate, and incisive look at the life experiences of forty-five trans men. Emerging into 21st-century political and social conversations, questions persist. Who are they? How do they... -
Case Studies on Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression in Social Work Practice by Lori Messinger 9780231127431
RRP: £30.00£23.29At last-a casebook that focuses exclusively on sexual orientation and gender expression in relation to social work practice. The scenarios feature gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) individuals, couples, and families, and highlight GLBT... -
Boystown: Sex and Community in Chicago by Jason Orne 9780226413396
RRP: £26.00£24.85From neighborhoods as large as Chelsea or the Castro, to locales limited to a single club, like The Shamrock in Madison or Sidewinders in Albuquerque, gay areas are becoming normal. Straight people flood in. Gay people flee out. Scholars call this... -
Homosexuality in Modern France by Jeffrey Merrick 9780195093032
£65.09This volume explores the realities and representations of same-sex sexuality in France in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, the period that witnessed the emergence of "homosexuality" in the modern sense of the word. Based on... -
Gay Men and Feminist Women in the Fight for Equality: “What Did You Do During the Second Wave, Daddy?” by D. Travers Scott 9781433162817
RRP: £30.80£27.37What did gay men do in women’s liberation—and vice-versa? This book offers the first systematic investigation of the question. Conventional wisdom has offered varied and contradictory stories: Gay men were misogynistic enemies of feminism; feminist women... -
A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers by Jen Jack Gieseking 9781479848409
RRP: £74.00£64.85Winner, 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... -
The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation by Gary Kinsman 9780774816281
RRP: £29.99£26.90From the 1950s to the late 1990s, agents of the state spied on, interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in Canada, employing social ideologies and other practices to construct their targets as threats to society. Based on official security documents... -
21st Century Gay by John Malone 9780871319494
RRP: £11.99£8.92How homosexuality was viewed a hundred years ago and how it is seen today are undoubtedly very different. John Malone looks back on this section of history not to merely summarise events but to analyse the influences they have had in shaping the gay... -
Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times by Jasbir K. Puar 9780822371113
RRP: £95.00£82.73Tenth Anniversary Expanded Edition Ten years on, Jasbir K. Puar's pathbreaking Terrorist Assemblages remains one of the most influential queer theory texts and continues to reverberate across multiple political landscapes, activist projects, and... -
After Love: Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba by Noelle M. Stout 9780822356738
RRP: £85.00£73.81Focused 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... -
Gay Warriors: A Documentary History from the Ancient World to the Present by B. R. Burg 9780814798850
£89.88In 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...