Lesbian Studies

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...

- includes updates language regarding transgender individuals and the gender binary - New introduction written by Ann Northrop, a leader in the gay community and host of Gay USA. - new edition celebrates 25 years since initial publication - offers...

This groundbreaking study, among the earliest syntheses on female homosexuality throughout Antiquity, explores the topic with careful reference to ancient concepts and views, drawing fully on the existing visual and written record including literary,...

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 *...

Born in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzaldua was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldua played a major role in shaping...

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...

A first-hand account of the victories and the challenges of LGBT activism over a forty year period. Analyzes the changing social and political attitudes towards the LGBT community in Canada from the 1960s to the present.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556434754Author Renate StendhalFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Transgender) 2009.Book InformationISBN 9781551522647Author S. Bear BergmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 205Imprint Arsenal Pulp...

Amber L. Hollibaugh is a lesbian sex radical, ex-hooker, incest survivor, gypsy child, poor-white-trash, high femme dyke. She is also an award-winning filmmaker, feminist, Left political organizer, public speaker, and journalist. My Dangerous Desires...

Written by two experienced lesbian therapists, Lesbian Couples covers a range of topics,commitment ceremonies and marriage, living arrangements, work, money, togetherness and separate identities, coming out to family and friends, resolving conflict and...

Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold traces the evolution of the lesbian community in Buffalo, New York from the mid-1930s up to the early 1960s. Drawing upon the oral histories of 45 women, it is the first comprehensive history of a working-class lesbian...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911346203Author Simon Napier-BellFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Red PlanetPublisher Red Planet Publishing Ltd

"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...

In the Lesbian and Gay Studies series this work draws on literary and cultural theory to demonstrate the ways in which lesbian identities are ascribed and resisted. It looks at the identity models of the hero, the flaneur and the lesbian outlaw as well...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Lesbian Memoir/Biography) 2013 and Independent Publisher Book Awards (Gay/Lesbian Nonfiction) 2013.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558610804Author Studies Clags Center for LgbtqFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Feminist PressPublisher Feminist PressWeight(grams) 431g

Take Stage! is the first comprehensive "how-to" book for lesbians wanting to produce or direct lesbian theatre. Controversial and anecdotal, Take Stage! is written for the lesbian with no previous experience with theatre or lesbian organization...

In Don't Janet E. Halley explains how the military's new anti-gay policy is fundamentally misdescribed by its common nickname, "Don't Ask/Don't Tell." This ubiquitous phrase, she points out, implies that it discharges servicemembers not for who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781558613287Author Studies Clags Center for LgbtqFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Feminist Press at The City University of New YorkPublisher Feminist...

The period just prior to the birth of one's child is a time of deep personal development. Expecting Teryk is an intimate exploration, written in the form of a letter from a parent to her future son, that reclaims a rite of passage that modern society...

Charity and Sylvia is the intimate history of two ordinary women who lived in an extraordinary same-sex marriage during the early nineteenth century. Based on diaries, letters, and poetry, among other original documents, the research traces the women's...

This title traces the lives of individual lesbians against the background of the politics and history of the 20th century, and shows the infinite variety of ways in which lesbians made their lives in Britain. This history has relevance to contemporary...

In this brilliant introduction to trans politics, journalist Shon Faye gives an incisive overview of systemic transphobia and argues that the struggle for trans rights is necessary to any struggle for social justice.So often, Faye argues, trans people...

Engaging with fears of lesbian death to explore the value of lesbian beyond identity The loss of lesbian spaces, as well as ideas of the lesbian as anachronistic has called into question the place of lesbian identity within our current culture. In...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849351201Author Deric ShannonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint AK PressPublisher AK PressWeight(grams) 342g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312671938Author David R CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Publisher Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Weight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807059081Author Rev Elizabeth M. EdmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780895941220Author Audre LordeFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Crossing PressPublisher Crossing PressWeight(grams) 352gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 151mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807044650Author Michael BronskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 369gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm *...

". . . the papers in Deviant Bodies reveal an ongoing Western preoccupation with the sources of identity and human character." -Times Literary Supplement"Highly recommended for cultural studies . . . " -The Reader's Review"It would be useful for...

Charity and Sylvia is the intimate history of two ordinary women who lived in an extraordinary same-sex marriage during the early nineteenth century. Based on diaries, letters, and poetry, among other original documents, the research traces the women's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416916321Author BlitzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Simon Spotlight EntertainmentPublisher Simon & Schuster

A Positive View of LGBTQ starts a new conversation about the strengths and benefits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGTBQ) identities. Positive LGBTQ identities are affirmed through inspiring firsthand accounts. Focusing on how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438461762Author Bonnie J. MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

"Intimate Friends" explores the fascinating history of the erotic friendships of educated English and American women over the 150-year period leading up to the 1928 publication of Radclyffe Hall's landmark novel, "The Well of Loneliness". Distinguished...

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...

This collection brings together the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a more sophisticated notion of queer film criticism. While the "politics of representation" has been the focus of much previous gay and lesbian film criticism,...