Gay Studies category: 1383 books
You and Your Gender Identity
A Guide to Discovery
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
Are you wrestling with questions surrounding your gender that just don’t seem to go away? Do you want answers to questions about your gender identity, but aren’t sure how to get started?
In this groundbreaking guide, Dara Hoffman-Fox, LPC—accomplished gender therapist and thought leader...
Play, Creativity, and Social Movements
If I Can't Dance, It’s Not My Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
As we play, we step away from stark reality to conjure up new possibilities for the present and our common future. Today, a new cohort of social activists are using it to create social change and reinvent democratic social relations. In contrast to work or routine, play must be free. To the extent...
Politics, Society and Homosexuality in Post-War Britain
The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 and Its Significance
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 was ground-breaking in the UK and Politics, Society and Homosexuality in Post-War Britain: The Sexual Offences Act of 1967 and its Significance marks the fiftieth anniversary of its successful path to the statute book.
The act was not without controversy and...
Authentic Leadership
An Engaged Discussion of LGBTQ Work as Culturally Relevant
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
This book provides new insights about the roles in which LGBTQ individuals contribute in society and various organizations. The literature is divided into two sections. Section one includes three chapters from higher education administrators, faculty and community activists. The chapters share personal...
Listening to Sexual Minorities
A Study of Faith and Sexual Identity on Christian College Campuses
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Students arrive on campus with various boxes of belongings to unpack, some heavy, some tidy, some more valuable, some more private. For many students, two of these boxes could be labeled "My Faith" and "My Sexuality"—and these two can be among the most cumbersome to handle. How to balance the two...
by TaraElla
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2014
This is a collection of articles about marriage equality, written in 2011-2013, by TaraElla. TaraElla is a singer-songwriter, and has been a strong supporter of marriage equality for over a decade. Many of these articles were written to sincerely convince conservatives to come on board the movement,...
The Third Sex
Kathoey: Thailand's Ladyboys
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The kathoey, the Thai term for ladyboys, have long been part of the cultural landscape of Thailand. Though they're a leading tourist attraction, the glamorous and attractive men who are now women are also a modern expression of an archaic tradition.
Who are the ladyboys? Richard Totman introduces...
Bangkok Baby - The Inside Story of Ladyboys
The acclaimed TV documentary series
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
The acclaimed TV documentary series
From my first day of walking the streets of Bangkok I was amazed by what I saw. Beautiful Ladyboy prostitutes, monks in saffron robes, shrines to Buddha and Ganesh, the smell of cooking and incense everywhere.
This is my journey so far.
From...
Gender Reckonings
New Social Theory and Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Vivid narratives, fresh insights, and new theories on where gender theory and research stand today
Since scholars began interrogating the meaning of gender and sexuality in society, this field has become essential to the study of sociology. Gender Reckonings aims to map new directions for understanding...
by Kat Black
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
As the doorbell is ringing, Kim stands up and pulls out a blindfold and walks over to Jake and ties the blindfold around his eyes. "What's this about?" Jake asks. She leads him to the bathroom and before she closes the door, she tells him to stay inside while she gets things ready. She tells...
Intercourse in Television and Film
The Presentation of Explicit Sex Acts
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
As many critics and theorists have noted, non-pornographic films, documentaries, and quality television series have increasingly included explicit sex scenes since the 1990s, some of such scenes featuring the performance of actual sex acts. The incidence of sex in narratively powerful, resonant visual...
Ethereal Queer
Television, Historicity, Desire
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
In Ethereal Queer, Amy Villarejo offers a historically engaged, theoretically sophisticated, and often personal account of how TV representations of queer life have changed as the medium has evolved since the 1950s. Challenging the widespread view that LGBT characters did not make a sustained appearance...
Queer Wales
The History, Culture and Politics of Queer Life in Wales
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
This book provides varied perspectives on queer history, culture, politics and life in Wales. It addresses the queering of the Welsh language in examples from the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, acquainting readers with such figures as Felicia Hemans, George Powell, and Edward Thomas; and it...
Sexual Authenticity
An Intimate Reflection on Homosexuality and Catholicism
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2009
Real glimpses into the hearts and lives of other people are rare...Columnist and author Melinda Selmys gives readers an unusual opportunity to explore the topic of homosexuality and the Catholic Faith from a fresh, sincere perspective. Her intensely personal reflections help clarify the misconceptions...