Lesbian Studies

From iconic musicians Tegan and Sara comes a nostalgic memoir about high school, detailing their first loves and first songs in a compelling look back at their origin story. 'Genius' Augusten Burroughs, author of Running with Scissors'A gift' Elliot...

Drawing on a wide range of historical sources - court records, newspaper reports, medical records, novels, oral histories and personal papers - A Lesbian History of Britain presents the extraordinary history of lesbian experience in Britain. Covering...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907585296Author Pablo FernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint British Association for Adoption and Fostering (BAAF)Publisher...

Charting the stories of Olympic athletes and lesbian memoirists, via Sappho, Lesbian Love Story is a genre-defying respository of sapphic romance like no other.On her quest to discovering lesbian role models overlooked by history, Amelia Possanza...

'Lovingly detailed and exhaustively researched - easily the most readable and comprehensive guide I've seen to this fascinating hidden history' Tom Robinson, musician, broadcaster and long-time LGBT rights activist From Sia to Elton John, Dusty...

Hurled words. Thrown objects. Dodged burgers. A burger was thrown at Travis Alabanza on Waterloo Bridge in 2016. From this experience they have created a poetic, passionate performance piece based around the 'burger': the texture, and taste of being...

Originally published in 1971, Merle Miller's On Being Different is a pioneering and thought-provoking book about being homosexual in the United States. Just two years after the Stonewall riots, Miller wrote a poignant essay for the New York Times...

The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), both as a major expatriate American painter and as a formative innovator in the decorative arts, have long been overshadowed by her fifty-year relationship with writer Natalie Barney and a...

'An incredibly valuable and inclusive resource for young LGBT+ people... A much needed reminder that nobody needs to go through the queer experience alone.' Calum McSwiggan As TikTok and social media stars, every day Matthew and Ryan invite millions of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551527383Author Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-SamarasinhaFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence This book provides the first detailed discussion of domestic violence and abuse in same sex relationships, offering a unique comparison between this and domestic violence and abuse experienced by...

This new take on Queer Theory explores the ways in which sexuality, subjectivity and sociality have been discursively produced in various historical and cultural contexts. The book begins by putting gay and lesbian sexuality and politics in historical...

'Holds rich and deep insights' - Sarah Schulman Who cares about working-class queers in Britain today? Are queers marginal to the study of class, and are the working-classes marginal to queer studies? Yvette Taylor critically engages with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623172015Author Christine CaldwellFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

This accessible book offers support and advice for women in heterosexual marriages who discover, or are coming to terms with, their lesbianism or bisexuality. It also offers guidance for the single lovers of married women. In sharing the author's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Anthology) 2012.Book InformationISBN 9781551523972Author Ivan E CoyoteFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Arsenal Pulp...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580911863Author Audre LordeFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 255gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

"If you came of age at the intersection of Mean Girls and The L Word: Read this book." -Sarah Pappalardo, editor in chief and co-founder of Reductress Today's gay youth have dozens of queer peer heroes, both fictional and real, but Grace Perry did...

"This updated edition of Bornstein's formative My Gender Workbook (1997) provides an invigorating introduction to contemporary theory around gender, sexuality, and power. The original is a classic of modern transgender theory and literature and,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936806010Author LovebookFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Love Book LLCPublisher Love Book LLCWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645036654Author Hugh RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 138mm *...

Known the world over for her unique musical style, distinctive look and a voice that propelled her into the charts time and time again, Dusty Springfield was undoubtedly one of the biggest and brightest musical stars of the twentieth century.Never one to...

A joyful celebration of the LGBTQ+ community's development, history, and culture, packed with facts, trivia, timelines, and charts, and featuring 100 full-color illustrations. Compiled and designed by queer power couple and illustrators extraordinaire,...

A lyrical and meticulously researched mapping of the ways in which diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and geograhy From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around...

#1 New Release in Inclusive Education and LGBT Studies A celebration of the LGBT communityReaders of The ABCs of LGBT by Ashley Mardell and Queer: A Graphic History by Dr. Meg-John Barker will love We Make It Better, a quintessential LGBT book. LGBT...

Winner, Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ AnthologyWinner, Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, Publishing Triangle AwardsA Ms. magazine, Refinery29, and Lambda Literary Most Anticipated Read of 2021A groundbreaking collection tracing the history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143134442Author Audre LordeFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Sexual Intimacy for Women helps female couples examine the emotional, physical, and psychological aspects of their relationships, with the goal of creating more intimacy. Exercises and client-based anecdotes from Dr. Corwin's years of experience with...

"Could you put your white best friend on stage and remind them that they're part of the problem? Even if you love them? Even if you never want anyone to feel for even a moment how you feel living in this world every day? Would - could - a white person...

Is it possible to develop a radical socialist feminism that fights for the emancipation of women and of all humankind? This book is a journey through the history of feminism. Using the concrete struggles of women, the Marxist feminist Andrea D'Atri...

Celebrate the richness of modern queer culture and its vast history with this fascinating introduction to all the essential elements that helped sculpt the LGBTQ+ community up to the present day, including:- the amazing stories of queer pioneers like...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997048797Author Jon MacyFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Stacked Deck PressPublisher Stacked Deck PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 254mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739169718Author Georgie HenleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Fourteen PublishingPublisher Fourteen PublishingWeight(grams) 70gDimensions(mm) 198mm...

Tesya has reasons to feel hopeful after leaving her last job, where she was subjected to a series of anonymous hate crimes. Now she is back home in London to start a new lecturing position, and has begun an exciting, if tumultuous, love affair with the...

'All profound relationships have the quality of being a folie a deux; an intimate departure from reality, an imaginative creation of a world apart; perhaps this is a way of calling forth meaning - the merging of senseless subjectivities.' In 1950s...

This handbook offers diverse perspectives on queer Africa, incorporating scholarly contributions on themes that reflect and inflect the trajectories of queer contributions to African studies within and outside academia.The Routledge Handbook of Queer...

The Routledge Queer Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vibrant and interdisciplinary field.The book traces the emergence and development of Queer Studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key...

FINALIST FOR THE 2022 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FOR LESBIAN MEMOIR'A muscular, canny memoir . . . I couldn't put it down. What a fucking gorgeous book' CARMEN MARIA MACHADO'Entertaining' New York Times'Absolutely not to be missed' Vogue'A gripping story'...

There is a big hole in the history of the LGBT movement in Britain. Each step towards equality for LGBT people, every positive move in public opinion, was the result of campaigning. But while individuals and lobby groups loudly promote their role in the...

First published in Italian in 1977, Mario Mieli's groundbreaking book is an early landmark of revolutionary queer theory - now available for the first time in a complete and unabridged English translation. Among the most important works ever to...