Lesbian Studies

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...

This book demonstrates that everyday interactions and struggles over the right words to use are at the heart of the experience of those in same-sex marriages. At a time when same-sex marriage is on the cusp of becoming legal across the United States, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835731802Author Vagelis KapsalisFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Micheal KannedyPublisher Micheal KannedyWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Members of social groups, including communities, routinely exert subtle forms of social control on others. The Web: Social Control in a Lesbian Community is a sociological study examining the effects of informal social control_the response to behavior or...

Within a society that long considered "lesbian motherhood" a contradiction in terms, what were the experiences of lesbian mothers at the end of the twentieth century? In this illuminating book, lesbian mothers tell their stories of how they became...

This special issue of GLQ celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of Gayle Rubin's groundbreaking essay, "Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of the Politics of Sexuality." Credited with inaugurating the contemporary field of...

Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship, and Sex in Queer Mexico City is the first ethnography in English to focus primarily on women's sexual and intimate cultures in Mexico. The book shows the transformation of intimacy in the lives of three...

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...

The period just prior to the birth of a child is a time of profound personal transformation for expectant parents. Expecting Teryk: An Exceptional Path to Parenthood is an intimate exploration, written in the form of a letter from a parent to her future...

Starting in the mid-1960s, Canadian lesbians started leaving their closets en masse to find each other and build community. After decades of being pathologized or erased from public view, lesbians were ready to make a scene - both by bringing attention...

"Well-written, absorbing, and a great pleasure to read . . . will appeal to Christians struggling to square their traditional beliefs with acceptance of homosexuality as well as to all those interested in adoption, lesbian marriage, and the changing...

To the expanding literature on lesbian and gay rights in Canada, Miriam Smith contributes this fascinating analysis of trends in the movement toward equality for sexual minorities in the last quarter of a century. Using archival material that has largely...

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...

Lives That Resist Telling challenges the resounding scholarly silence about the lives of migrant women who identify as lesbian, queer, or nonheteronormative. Reworking social science methodologies and theories, the essays explore the experiences of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsRunner-up for Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Studies 2014.Book InformationISBN 9789888139460Author Lucetta Yip Lo KamFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Hong Kong...

This book examines the stories of lesbian and bisexual women in a Northeast community who share who they are, how they have come to see themselves as lesbian or bisexual, and what those identities mean to them. Drawing on social constructionist...

Melissa M. Wilcox explores the complex spiritual lives of queer women in the Los Angeles area. She takes the reader on a tour of a colorful array of religious and secular groups that serve as spiritual resources for these women-from the well-known...

Erotic Cartographies uses subjective mapping, a participatory data collection technique, to demonstrate how Trinidadian same-sex-loving women use their gender performance, erotic autonomy, and space-making practices to reinforce and resist colonial...

Political theatre thrives on turbulence. By turning the political issues of the day into a potent, dramatic art form, its practitioners hold up a mirror to our society - with the power to shock, discomfit and entertain. Scenes from the Revolution is a...

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...

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...

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 9781938334047Author Minnie Bruce PrattFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint A Midsummer Night's PressPublisher A Midsummer Night's PressWeight(grams)...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595162277Author Robin McCoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 209gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Audre Lorde was not only a famous poet; she was also one of the most important radical black feminists of the past century. Her writings and speeches grappled with an impressive broad list of topics, including sexuality, race, gender, class, disease, the...

#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...

Originally written in the 1990s, this book remains a key resource for women in heterosexual marriages who discover, or are coming to terms with, their lesbianism or bisexuality. This classic edition includes a new foreword from Ann Northrop-veteran...

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 9780830836260Author Andrew MarinFormat PaperbackImprint IVP BooksWeight(grams) 272g

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,...

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...

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...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Lambda Literary Awards (Transgender Nonfiction) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781551525112Author S. Bear BergmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Arsenal...

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...

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...

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 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 9781645036654Author Hugh RyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Bold Type BooksPublisher Bold Type BooksWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 138mm *...