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Female Masculinity by Jack Halberstam
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $26.79In this quintessential work of queer theory, Jack Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well... -
Females Andrea Long Chu 9781804298213
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $8.86"Everyone is female, and everyone hates it."So begins Andrea Long Chu's genre-defying investigation into sex and lies, desperate artists and reckless politics, the smothering embrace of gender and... -
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives by J. Jack Halberstam
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $28.33The first full-length study of transgender representations in art, fiction, film, video, and music In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the... -
Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal J. Jack Halberstam 9780807010976
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807010976Author J. Jack HalberstamFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprin -
Hermaphrodite Logic: Intersex Liberation & Escaping the Clinic Jules Joanne Gleeson 9781839760938
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.51When a baby is born whose reproductive organs do not fit neatly into a binary idea of biological sex, they are deemed intersex. Often, doctors and parents decide to do surgery soon after birth, and... -
A Short History of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson 9781804291566
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.96"A beautifully written and argued book." - Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, BabyThere is no shortage of voices demanding everyone pay attention to the violence trans women suffer. But one... -
A Short History of Trans Misogyny Jules Gill-Peterson 9781804291603
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.56"A beautifully written and argued book." - Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, BabyThere is no shortage of voices demanding everyone pay attention to the violence trans women suffer. But one... -
Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man Thomas Page McBee 9781786890887
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65If he is to become a man, what sort of man should Thomas Page McBee be?To find out, McBee must confront the suffering he has endured at the hands of men: the abuse he endured as a child from his... -
Amateur: A True Story About What Makes a Man Thomas Page McBee 9781786890979
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionIn this groundbreaking new book, Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at Madison Square Garden while struggling... -
Amateur: A Reckoning With Gender, Identity and Masculinity Thomas Page McBee 9781786891006
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.76Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-FictionShortlisted for the Wellcome Book PrizeIn this groundbreaking new book, Thomas Page McBee, a trans man, trains to fight in a charity match at... -
Queer Inhumanisms by Mel Y. Chen 9780822368274
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $16.86This issue features a group of leading theorists from multiple disciplines who decenter the human in queer theory, exploring what it means to treat "the human" as simply one of many elements in a... -
Trans*historicities by Leah DeVun
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.87This issue offers a theoretical and methodological imagining of what constitutes trans* before the advent of the terms that scholars generally look to for the formation of modern conceptions of... -
One-Dimensional Queer Roderick A. Ferguson 9781509523566
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.40The story of gay rights has long been told as one of single-minded focus on the fight for sexual freedom. Yet its origins are much more complicated than this single-issue interpretation would have us... -
The Queer Art of Failure by Judith Halberstam 9780822350453
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.43The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives-to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known... -
Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Booksplease Price: $13.39This Norton Critical Edition includes: The first British edition of the novel, published in 1886 by Longmans, Green, and Co., the only edition set directly from Stevenson's manuscript and for which... -
Nobody Is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low by C. Riley Snorton 9780816677979
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $24.44Since the early 2000s, the phenomenon of the "down low"-black men who have sex with men as well as women and do not identify as gay, queer, or bisexual-has exploded in news media and popular culture,... -
On Cuddling: Loved to Death in the Racial Embrace by Phanuel Antwi 9780745346113
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $18.60Ranging from the terrifying embrace of the slave ship's hold to the racist encoding of 'cuddly' toys, On Cuddling is a unique combination of essay and poetry that contends with the way racial... -
European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe by Fatima El-Tayeb 9780816670161
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $24.44European Others offers an interrogation into the position of racialized communities in the European Union, arguing that the tension between a growing nonwhite, non-Christian population and insistent... -
Female Masculinity by Judith Halberstam 9780822322436
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $25.55Masculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Judith Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for... -
Out of the Ordinary by 9781843518211
RRP: $21.44Booksplease Price: $18.43Now available for the first time in Ireland and the UK - more than half a century after it was written - is the memoir of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915-62), the Anglo-Irish doctor and Buddhist... -
Can the Monster Speak?: Report to an Academy of Psychoanalysts by Paul Preciado 9781913097585
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.05In November 2019, Paul B. Preciado was invited to speak in front of 3,500 psychoanalysts at the Ecole de la Cause Freudienne's annual conference in Paris. Standing up in front of the profession for... -
Erasure by Design: Racial Protocols of Displacement, Demolition, and Extraction V. Mitch McEwen 9781941332856
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $21.82How has erasure formed the space around us? How do we come to know it, so that we can design differently? Erasure by Design tracks the methods, terms, and racial protocols that continue to do the... -
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by Jose Esteban Munoz 9780814757284
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted... -
Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by Jose Esteban Munoz 9780814757277 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted... -
Countersexual Manifesto by Paul B. Preciado 9780231175630
RRP: $29.48Booksplease Price: $22.78Countersexual Manifesto is an outrageous yet rigorous work of trans theory, a performative literary text, and an insistent call to action. Seeking to overthrow all constraints on what can be done... -
Lana and Lilly Wachowski by Cael M. Keegan 9780252083839
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98Lana and Lilly Wachowski have redefined the technically and topically possible while joyfully defying audience expectations. Visionary films like The Matrix trilogy and Cloud Atlas have made them the... -
The Tragedy of Heterosexuality by Jane Ward 9781479804467
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.41Winner, 2021 PROSE Award in the Cultural Anthropology & Sociology Category Finalist, 2021 Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Studies A troubling account of heterosexual desire in the era of #MeToo ... -
What's the Use?: On the Uses of Use by Sara Ahmed 9781478006503
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $24.44In What's the Use? Sara Ahmed continues the work she began in The Promise of Happiness and Willful Subjects by taking up a single word-in this case, use-and following it around. She shows how use... -
Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility by Alexis Lothian 9781479825851
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $31.46Finalist, 2019 Locus Award for Nonfiction, presented by the Locus Science Fiction Foundation Traverses the history of imagined futures from the 1890s to the 2010s, interweaving speculative visions... -
Everybody by Olivia Laing
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.75'Intensely moving, vital and artful' - Guardian'A dizzying ride . . . both timely and beguiling' - Sunday TimesFrom the award-winning author of Crudo, this is an exhilarating and eminently readable... -
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.41WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK PRIZE 2020 At the dawn of the twentieth century, black women in the US were carving out new ways of living... -
Everybody: A Book about Freedom by Olivia Laing 9781324022022
Booksplease Price: $18.91The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long... -
Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Performance in the Asias by Eng-Beng Lim
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $31.46Honorable Mention for the 2015 Cultural Studies Best Book presented by the Association of Asian American Studies Winner of the 2013 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT... -
Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France by Rachel Mesch 9781503640122
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98A fascinating exploration of three individuals in fin-de-siecle France who pushed the boundaries of gender identity. Before the term "transgender" existed, there were those who experienced their...