Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Tritiya-Prakriti: People of the Third Sex
Understanding Homosexuality,Transgender Identity and Intersex Conditions Through Hinduism
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2004
Tritiya-Prakriti: People of the Third Sex is a collection of years of research into a topic seldom discussed or easily found within the Hindu/Vedic scriptural canon. Based entirely upon authentic Sanskrit references and modern concurring facts, the book guides us through the original Hindu concept...
Queer Difficulty in Art and Poetry
Rethinking the Sexed Body in Verse and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2017
Augmenting recent developments in theories of gender and sexuality, this anthology marks a compelling new phase in queer scholarship. Navigating notions of silence, misunderstanding, pleasure, and even affects of phobia in artworks and texts, the essays in this volume propose new and surprising ways...
Black Queer Studies
A Critical Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
While over the past decade a number of scholars have done significant work on questions of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered identities, this volume is the first to collect this groundbreaking work and make black queer studies visible as a developing field of study in the United States....
by Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1993
Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and...
Sexual Orientation at Work
Contemporary Issues and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Sexual Orientation at Work: Contemporary Issues and Perspectives brings together contemporary international research on sexual orientation and draws out its implications for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and heterosexual employees and managers. It provides new empirical and theoretical insights...
The Lesbian Polyamory Reader
Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy, and Casual Sex
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
In reading The Lesbian Polyamory Reader: Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy, and Casual Sex, you'll quickly discover that the steps toward love and happiness are as easy as 1, 2, 3, and maybe even 4 or 5. And you'll find that if your own lesbian relationship lies outside the “traditional monogamous...
Male Lust
Pleasure, Power, and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Men from a variety of sexual orientations and ethnic backgrounds overturn myths about male sexuality and desire!
Male sexuality comes of age in this provocative collection of personal essays and poetry. Male Lust's nearly 60 contributors explore emotional, social, and political aspects of sex...
Out in the Country
Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Monograph from the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities Section
Winner of the 2010 Congress Inaugural Qualitative...
Bodies of Evidence : The Practice of Queer Oral History
The Practice of Queer Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
Bodies of Evidence: The Practice of Queer Oral History is the first book to provide serious scholarly insight into the methodological practices that shape lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer oral histories. Each chapter pairs an oral history excerpt with an essay in which the oral historian...
Bisexuality in the Lives of Men
Facts and Fictions
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Explore the theoretical, political, psychological, and cultural issues surrounding male bisexuality!
Bisexuality in the Lives of Men is the first anthology to focus on men who love both men and women. The theoretical, scientific, and literary essays in this landmark volume dispel the fictions...
¿Entiendes?
Queer Readings, Hispanic Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1995
"¿Entiendes?" is literally translated as "Do you understand? Do you get it?" But those who do "get it" will also hear within this question a subtler meaning: "Are you queer? Are you one of us?" The issues of gay and lesbian identity represented by this question...
by Alexis Annes, Jenny Björklund, Kath Browne
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
This international edited collection contributes to knowledge about the geographies of sexualities experienced and imagined in rural spaces. The book draws attention to the heterogeneity of rural contexts and the diversity of meanings about sexualities within and across these spaces. The collection...
Gay Priori
A Queer Critical Legal Studies Approach to Law Reform
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2018
Libby Adler offers a comprehensive critique of the mainstream LGBT legal agenda in the United States, showing how LGBT equal rights discourse drives legal advocates toward a narrow array of reform objectives that do little to help the lives of the most marginalized members of the LGBT community.
Space at the Table
Conversations Between an Evangelical Theologian and His Gay Son
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Love does not begin with condemnation.
Can an evangelical theologian and his gay son overcome the differences in belief that threaten to destroy their relationship? For Brad and Drew Harper, that question wasn’t theoretical—and neither was the resounding yes they found after years of struggle....