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The Geography of Perversion: Male-to-Male Sexual Behavior Outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918 by Rudi C. Bleys 9780814712658
Booksplease Price: £30.78Recent years have seen enormous attention devoted to the history of sexuality in the Western world. But how has the West conceived of non-western societies been influenced by these other traditions? ... -
Relating Intimacies: Power and Resistance by Paul Bagguley 9780333747643
Booksplease Price: £23.65Relating Intimacies contains papers presented at the 1997 British Sociological Association Conference which discuss contemporary research and theorizing with regard to intimate relationships... -
Prostitution and Victorian Society: Women, Class, and the State by Judith R. Walkowitz 9780521270649
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £45.41The state regulation of prostitution, as established under the Contagious Diseases Acts of 1864, 1866 and 1869, and the successful campaign for the repeal of the Acts, provide the framework for this... -
Writing Queer History Dr Matt Cook 9781474247528
Booksplease Price: £25.66Writing Queer History introduces and surveys the ways in which historians and others have researched and written about the lesbian, gay and queer past. It pinpoints some of the key themes, issues and... -
Writing Queer History Dr Matt Cook 9781474247511
Booksplease Price: £65.97Writing Queer History introduces and surveys the ways in which historians and others have researched and written about the lesbian, gay and queer past. It pinpoints some of the key themes, issues and... -
The Lesbian and Gay Movement and the State: Comparative Insights into a Transformed Relationship by Manon Tremblay
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94By analyzing the relationship between lesbian and gay movements and the state, this ground-breaking book addresses two interconnected issues: to what extent is the lesbian and gay movement influenced... -
A Topological Picturebook by George K. Francis 9780387345420
Booksplease Price: £56.58Praise for George Francis's A Topological Picturebook: Bravo to Springer for reissuing this unique and beautiful book! It not only reminds the older generation of the pleasures of doing mathematics... -
Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture by Gail Hawkes 9780745616711
Booksplease Price: £19.71Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture provides the first comprehensive overview of desire and pleasure in western sexual culture. It argues that both have always been seen as socially disruptive and... -
Sexuality and Citizenship by Diane Richardson 9781509514205
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Sexual citizenship has become a key concept in the social sciences. It describes the rights and responsibilities of citizens in sexual and intimate life, including debates over equal marriage and... -
Sexuality and Citizenship Diane Richardson 9781509514212
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19Sexual citizenship has become a key concept in the social sciences. It describes the rights and responsibilities of citizens in sexual and intimate life, including debates over equal marriage and... -
American Homo: Community and Perversity by Jeffrey Escoffier
Booksplease Price: £20.70American Homo offers a sweeping interpretation of the political, cultural and economic struggles of lesbian, gay and bisexual people to reveal how sexual minorities have challenged and changed... -
Global Culture: Nationalism, Globalization and Modernity by Mike Featherstone
Booksplease Price: £120.29In this book leading social scientists from many countries analyze the extent to which we are seeing a globalization of culture. Is a unified world culture emerging? And if so, how does this relate... -
Sexualities and Communication in Everyday Life: A Reader Karen E. Lovaas 9781412914437
RRP: £133.00Booksplease Price: £108.86"There are more than twenty-five contributors to the Reader. The sheer pleasure that the contributors provide in the way they bring together brilliantly diverse perspectives to enlarge the limits of... -
On Friendship by Ray Pahl 9780745622804
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Friends can help to form the basic structure of our lives but we very often take them for granted. Friends can sometimes be regarded as an oppressive burden when they appear to be greedily demanding... -
Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life Steven Seidman 9780415932073
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94Gay 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... -
Trans America: A Counter-History Barry Reay (University of Auckland) 9781509511785
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £39.72Trans seems to be everywhere in American culture. Yet there is little understanding of how this came about. Are people aware that there were earlier periods of gender flexibility and contestability... -
Theorizing Intersectionality and Sexuality by Yvette Taylor 9781349310708
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book re-examines political, conceptual and methodological concerns of 'intersectionality', bringing these into conversation with sexuality studies. It explores sexual identifications, politics... -
On Friendship by Ray Pahl 9780745622811
Booksplease Price: £18.18Friends can help to form the basic structure of our lives but we very often take them for granted. Friends can sometimes be regarded as an oppressive burden when they appear to be greedily demanding... -
Trans America: A Counter-History Barry Reay (University of Auckland) 9781509511792
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.88Trans seems to be everywhere in American culture. Yet there is little understanding of how this came about. Are people aware that there were earlier periods of gender flexibility and contestability... -
Undoing Culture: Globalization, Postmodernism and Identity by Mike Featherstone 9780803976061
Booksplease Price: £124.20Written with the clarity and insight that readers have come to expect of Mike Featherstone Undoing Culture is a notable contribution to our understanding of modernism and postmodernism. It explores... -
Gender and Sexuality: Sociological Approaches Momin Rahman (Trent University, Canada) 9780745633770
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £17.03This new introduction to the sociology of gender and sexuality offers a fresh take on the importance of these concepts in modern society. It provides an insight into our rapidly changing attitudes... -
Beneath the Equator: Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality, and Emerging Gay Communities in Brazil by Richard Parker
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £43.51Based on long-term field research carried out over more than 15 years, Beneath the Equator examines the changing shape of male homosexuality and the emergence of diverse and vibrant gay communities... -
Language and Sexuality by Deborah Cameron 9780521009690
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £34.73This lively and accessible textbook looks at how we talk about sex and why we talk about it the way we do. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from personal ads to phone sex, from sado-masochistic... -
Language and Sexuality by Deborah Cameron 9780521804332
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £70.03This lively and accessible textbook looks at how we talk about sex and why we talk about it the way we do. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from personal ads to phone sex, from sado-masochistic... -
Cosmopolitan Sexualities: Hope and the Humanist Imagination Ken Plummer 9780745671000
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.19How are we to live with the wide varieties of sexuality and gender found across the rapidly changing global order? Whilst some countries have legislated in favour of same-sex marriage and the United... -
Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past by Martin Bauml Duberman 9780452010673
Booksplease Price: £32.05Winner of two Lambda Rising AwardsThis richly revealing anthology brings together for the first time the vital new scholarly studies now lifting the veil from the gay and lesbian past. Such notable... -
Lesbian and Gay Studies: An Introductory, Interdisciplinary Approach by Theo Sandfort 9780761954187
Booksplease Price: £129.87This timely book seeks to demonstrate the coherence of lesbian and gay studies. It introduces the reader to the principal inter-disciplinary approaches in the field and critically assesses their... -
AIDS in the UK: The Making of Policy, 1981-1994 by Virginia Berridge 9780198204732
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £50.15Fifteen years ago the AIDS `epidemic' did not exist on the public agenda. In just over a decade the public and official response to the disease has resulted in the development of a whole network of... -
The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader by Henry Abelove
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £61.45Bringing together forty-two groundbreaking essays--many of them already classics--The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader provides a much-needed introduction to the contemporary state of lesbian/gay... -
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"Beyond the Law": The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain by Charles Upchurch 9781439920343
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61In nineteenth-century England, sodomy was punishable by death; even an accusation could damage a man's reputation for life. The last executions for this private, consensual act were in 1835, but the... -
Violence in Everyday Life: Power, Gender and Sexuality by Aliraza Javaid 9781786997234
Booksplease Price: £33.84Violence in Everyday Life explores how identity markers such as gender and sexuality intersect with violence, synthesizing the themes of gender, sexuality and violence to offering a crucial and... -
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"Beyond the Law": The Politics of Ending the Death Penalty for Sodomy in Britain by Charles Upchurch
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £71.14In nineteenth-century England, sodomy was punishable by death; even an accusation could damage a man's reputation for life. The last executions for this private, consensual act were in 1835, but the... -
Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry by Laura Maria Agustin 9781842778609
Booksplease Price: £26.90This groundbreaking book explodes several myths: that selling sex is completely different from any other kind of work; that migrants who sell sex are passive victims; and that the multitude of people... -
Theorizing Intersectionality and Sexuality by Yvette Taylor 9780230229303
Booksplease Price: £90.56This book re-examines political, conceptual and methodological concerns of 'intersectionality', bringing these into conversation with sexuality studies. It explores sexual identifications, politics... -
The End of Marriage?: Individualism and Intimate Relations Jane Lewis 9781843761730
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £29.70The modern day sees fewer marriages than before, and cohabitation is a major driver of family change. Jane Lewis questions whether this is - as many commentators argue and fear - a sign of... -
The Declining Significance of Homophobia: How Teenage Boys are Redefining Masculinity and Heterosexuality by Mark McCormack 9780199778249
RRP: £67.00Booksplease Price: £53.48Research has traditionally shown high schools to be hostile environments for LGBT youth. Boys have used homophobia to prove their masculinity and distance themselves from homosexuality. Despite these... -
Homosexuality and Civilization by Louis Crompton
RRP: £26.95Booksplease Price: £23.93How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of...