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Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness by Marlon B. Ross 9781478015215
RRP: £99.00£86.14In 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,... -
Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China by Elsa L. Fan 9781517907648
RRP: £83.00£72.11How global health practices can end up reorganizing practices of care for the people and communities they seek to serve Commodities of Care examines the unanticipated effects of global health interventions, ideas, and practices as they unfold in... -
Love, Heterosexuality and Society by Paul Johnson 9780415655484
RRP: £41.99£36.75Heterosexuality is a largely 'silent' set of practices and identities - it is assumed to be everywhere and yet often remains unnamed and unexplored. Despite recent changes in the theoretical understanding and representation of sexuality, heterosexuality... -
Are We Thinking Straight?: The Politics of Straightness in a Lesbian and Gay Social Movement Organization by Daniel K. Cortese 9780415882958
RRP: £45.99£40.13This book highlights the strategic deployment of a straight identity by an LGBT organization. Cortese explores the ways in which activists strategically use a "straight" identity as a social movement tool in order to successfully achieve the... -
The Struggle Over Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Rights: Facing off in Cincinnati by Kimberly B. Dugan 9780415652070
RRP: £21.99£19.34In November 1993 voters in Cincinnati, Ohio passed Issue 3, an amendment to the City Charter eliminating gay, lesbian, and bisexual persons' legal protection against discrimination and prohibiting their recognition as a group or class. This Christian... -
Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life Steven Seidman 9780415932073
RRP: £39.99£35.06Gay life has become increasingly open in the last decade. In Beyond the Closet , Steven Seidman, a well-known author and leading scholar in sexuality, is the first to chronicle this lifestyle change and to look at the lives of contemporary gays and... -
Femininity Played Straight: The Significance of Being Lesbian Biddy Martin 9780415916813
RRP: £36.99£32.53In 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... -
Science and Homosexualities by Vernon A. Rosario 9780415915014
RRP: £135.00£117.68Science and Homosexualities is the first anthology by historians of science to examine European and American scientific research on sexual orientation since the coining of the word "homosexual" almost 150 years ago. This collection is... -
Premodern Sexualities by Louise Fradenburg 9780415912570
RRP: £135.00£117.68Premodern 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... -
Queer Political Performance and Protest Benjamin Shepard (City Tech/City University of New York) 9780415897280
RRP: £45.99£40.13From the birth of the Gay Liberation through the rise of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1987, the global justice movement in 1994, the largest day of antiwar protest in world history in February 2003, the Republican National Convention... -
Homo Economics: Capitalism, Community, and Lesbian and Gay Life Amy Gluckman 9780415913799
RRP: £37.99£33.38Homo Economics is the first honest account of the tense relationship between gay people and the economy. This groundbreaking collection brings together a variety of voices from the worlds of journalism, activism, academia, the arts, and public policy to... -
Bisexual Perspectives on the Life and Work of Alfred C. Kinsey by Ron Suresha 9780415871754
RRP: £135.00£117.28The books commonly known as the Kinsey Report were Dr Alfred C. Kinsey's monumental scientific publishing achievement in 1948, often compared to the atomic bomb for its impact on the American public. On the sexagennial anniversary of the publication of... -
Bisexual Perspectives on the Life and Work of Alfred C. Kinsey by Ron Suresha 9780415852746
RRP: £43.99£38.44The books commonly known as the Kinsey Report were Dr Alfred C. Kinsey's monumental scientific publishing achievement in 1948, often compared to the atomic bomb for its impact on the American public. On the sexagennial anniversary of the publication of... -
Play, Creativity, and Social Movements: If I Can't Dance, It's Not My Revolution by Benjamin Shepard 9780415849197
RRP: £53.99£46.87As we play, we step away from stark reality to conjure up new possibilities for the present and our common future. Today, a new cohort of social activists are using it to create social change and reinvent democratic social relations. In contrast to work... -
Lesbian Images in International Popular Culture by Sara E. Cooper 9780415845601
RRP: £45.99£40.13Lesbian images are everywhere these days-cable television, film, popular magazines, advertising, Internet and the news-creating desire in men and women alike, selling commercial products and services, and stirring up controversy on many levels. But do... -
Radical Records (Routledge Revivals): Thirty Years of Lesbian and Gay History, 1957-1987 Bob Cant 9780415591140
RRP: £43.99£38.44The 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... -
Queercore: Queer Punk Media Subculture Curran Nault 9780367370558
RRP: £39.99£35.06Queercore is a queer and punk transmedia movement that was instigated in 1980s Toronto via the pages of the underground fanzine ("zine") J.D.s. Authored by G.B. Jones and Bruce LaBruce, J.D.s. declared "civil war" on the punk and gay and lesbian... -
The Nuptial Deal: Same-sex Marriage and Neo-liberal Governance by Jaye Cee Whitehead 9780226895284
RRP: £80.00£76.61Since the 1990s, gay and lesbian civil rights organizations have increasingly focused on the right of same-sex couples to marry, which represents a major change from earlier activists' rejection of the institution. Centering on the everyday struggles,... -
An American Obsession: Science, Medicine and the Place of Homosexuality in Modern Society by Jennifer Terry 9780226793672
RRP: £30.00£29.65Drawing on research from medical texts, psychiatric case histories, pioneering statistical surveys, first-person accounts, legal cases, sensationalist journalism and legislative debates, this text is a history of how the century-old obsession with... -
A Desired Past - A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America Leila Rupp 9780226731568
RRP: £27.00£26.47This text introduces Mary Hammon and Sara Norman, who were found guilty in 17th-century Massachusetts of "lewd behavior each with the other upon a bed". The reader also meets Ozaw-wen-dib, a male Chippewa who, in the 1820s, lived as a woman and had many... -
Men Without Maps: Some Gay Males of the Generation Before Stonewall by John Ibson 9780226656083
RRP: £72.00£69.11For many men of various sexual inclinations, the Second World War offered an unprecedented release from the constraints of civilian life. However, when they returned home they had to face the harsh realities of a restrictive society. Men Without Maps... -
Gay Fatherhood: Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America by Ellen Lewin 9780226476568
RRP: £76.00£72.86Men are often thought to have less interest in parenting than women, and gay men are generally assumed to prefer pleasure over responsibility. The toxic combination of these two stereotypical views has led to a lack of serious attention being paid to the... -
Blessing Same-Sex Unions: The Perils of Queer Romance and the Confusions of Christian Marriage Mark D. Jordan (Emory University) 9780226102535
RRP: £17.00£16.68Why are so many churches vehemently opposed to blessing same-sex unions? In this incisive work, Mark D. Jordan shows how carefully selected ideals of Christian marriage have come to dominate recent debates over same-sex unions. Opponents of gay marriage,... -
The Dividends of Dissent: How Conflict and Culture Work in Lesbian and Gay Marches on Washington by Amin Ghaziani 9780226289960
RRP: £28.00£27.79Marching on Washington is a hallowed tradition of American political protest, and demonstrations led by the women's rights, civil rights, and antiwar movements all endure in popular memory. Between 1979 and 2000 four major lesbian and gay demonstrations... -
Gay Hegemony/ Latino Homosexualites by Manolo Guzman 9780415647915
RRP: £41.99£36.75Gay Hegemony/ Latino Homosexualities is an interdisciplinary project that weaves ethnographic interviewing with the analysis of texts and material culture to study the intersection of gayness with Latinidad.Book InformationISBN 9780415647915Author Manolo... -
Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia by Gila Ashtor 9780823294169
RRP: £95.00£82.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823294169Author Gila AshtorFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Fordham University PressPublisher Fordham University PressWeight(grams) 152g -
RAW: PrEP, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Barebacking by Ricky Varghese 9781786998521
£93.44RAW addresses the question of sex without condoms, or barebacking, in the age of PrEP, a drug that virtually eliminates the transmission of HIV. Writing out of the history of the AIDS crisis, the authors in RAW expand the study of barebacking into... -
Queering Sexualities in Turkey: Gay Men, Male Prostitutes and the City Cenk OEzbay 9781784533175
RRP: £120.00£119.52Despite its some of its more liberal and democratic characteristics - when compared to many other countries in the Middle East - the more conservative elements within Turkish politics and society have made gains over the past decades. As a result, like... -
Speaking Out: Queer Youth in Focus by Rachelle Lee Smith 9781629630410
RRP: £14.99£9.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629630410Author Rachelle Lee SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 427g -
The Masculine Marine: Homoeroticism in the U.S. Marine Corps by Steven Zeeland 9781560249825
RRP: £135.00£117.28This exciting book was listed as #1 on The Advocate's (ital) bestseller list for December 1996! In The Masculine Marine, author Steven Zeeland records, for the first time ever, what active-duty Marines have to say about what it means to be a man, to be a... -
Gay Men at Midlife: Age Before Beauty by John DeCecco 9781560239796
RRP: £135.00£117.28"Those of us in our forties and fifties came of age in the 1960s and 1970s--a time when the available commentary on gay life was anything but supportive. Until 1973, homosexuality was a diagnosable mental illness." --from the Introduction by... -
When It's Time to Leave Your Lover: A Guide for Gay Men by Neil Kaminsky 9781560239383
RRP: £19.99£17.69When It's Time to Leave Your Lover: A Guide for Gay Men is for people who need help ending a gay male relationship that is no longer viable or for friends and family who want to support a gay man experiencing a breakup. This book provides tips on how to... -
Lesbian Images in International Popular Culture by Sara E. Cooper 9781560237969
RRP: £135.00£117.28Lesbian images are everywhere these days-cable television, film, popular magazines, advertising, Internet and the news-creating desire in men and women alike, selling commercial products and services, and stirring up controversy on many levels. But do... -
Bisexual Women: Friendship and Social Organization by M. Paz Galupo 9781560237037
RRP: £47.99£41.81Understand the unique emotional dynamics of bisexual women's friendship relationships Prevailing attitudes toward bisexuality affect every aspect of a bisexual woman's emotional and sexual life. Bisexual Women: Friendship and Social Organization... -
Handbook of Research with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Populations William Meezan (The Ohio State University, USA) 9781560235316
RRP: £96.99£84.45Handbook of Research with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Populations provides a detailed examination of the current methods and theoretical frameworks for conducting research with LGBT populations. Introducing greater nuance in designing and... -
Fatherhood for Gay Men: An Emotional and Practical Guide to Becoming a Gay Dad Kevin Mcgarry 9781560233886
RRP: £36.99£32.53Get 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... -
Lesbian Rites: Symbolic Acts and the Power of Community by Ramona Faith Oswald 9781560233145
RRP: £135.00£117.28Explore affirmation and coping rituals for lesbian singles, couples, and communities! This pioneering book is a multidisciplinary compilation of scholarship addressing lesbians, the rituals in their lives, and the meaning and impact of those rituals... -
Women and Bisexuality: A Global Perspective by Serena Anderlini-D'Onofrio 9781560232711
RRP: £41.99£36.75Get a global perspective on bisexuality from a women's viewpoint! Women and Bisexuality: A Global Perspective reflects the growing contribution bisexuals, and especially bisexual women, make to queer culture on an international level. This unique book... -
Finding a Lover for Life: A Gay Man's Guide to Finding a Lasting Relationship by John DeCecco 9781560233572
RRP: £41.99£36.75Develop healthy, lasting relationships!Here is a terrific dating guide for single gay and bisexual men. This insightful book provides a proven strategy for creating a satisfying dating life and finding a partner who is right for you! It integrates theory... -
Community Organizing Against Homophobia and Heterosexism: The World Through Rainbow-Colored Glasses by Samantha Wehbi 9781560232681
RRP: £125.00£107.86Examine how community organizing can help eliminate sexual oppression! This book presents insights from activists working in dramatically diverse cultures toward a common goal the eradication of sexual oppression. Contributors share their experiences...