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What's Queer about Queer Studies Now?
by David L. (edt) Eng  Publisher Comments This special double issue of Social Text reassesses the political utility of the term queer, The mainstreaming of gay and lesbian identity--as a mass-mediated consumer lifestyle and an embattled legal category--demands a renewal of queer studies that...
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Lure of Knowledge: Lesbian Sexuality and Theory
by Judith Roof Publisher Comments Lesbianism in literature has been dealt with rather indirectly in the past. Editors have led readers to the "artistry" of a work containing lesbianism, emphasizing instead the literary history and historical context of the work rather than the...
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Modern American Queer History (Critical Perspectives on the Past)
by Allida M. Black Publisher Comments This collection of essays considers the history as well as the historiography of queer life in America....
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Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities
by John D'emilio Publisher Comments With thorough documentation of the oppression of homosexuals and biographical sketches of the lesbian and gay heroes who helped the contemporary gay culture to emerge, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities supplies the definitive analysis of the homophile...
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School Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Youth
by Mary B. Harris Publisher Comments They're there -- they're just invisible. And the present hostile state of school systems is to blame for their seeming disappearance. In School Experiences of Gay and Lesbian Youth, readers will ger an eye-opening look at the heterosexist blindness that...
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Media Q, Media/queered
by Kevin G. (edt) Barnhurst Publisher Comments Media Queered is a groundbreaking assessment of minorities and the media. Authorities including Larry Gross, Edward Alwood, Lisa Henderson, and Marguerite Moritz join several new scholars to examine four aspects of visibility: history, expertise...
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Lila's House: A Study of Male Prostitution in Latin America (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies)
by Jacobo Schifter-sikora Publisher Comments Lila's House: Male Prostitution in Latin America presents insight into male prostitution in a truly global array of Latin American countries. This study focuses on a very specific sexual culture within the realm of male prostitution: the young men of a...
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Outing Goethe and His Age
by Alice A Kuzniar Publisher Comments This collection of twelve essays reclaims 'the age of Goethe' as a time when same-sex erotic attraction suffused artistic production from Winckelmann's art treatises and Goethe's plays to Friedrich Schlegel's self-reflexive novel Lucinde and Kleist's...
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Families we choose :lesbians, gays, kinship
by Kath Weston Book News Annotation Weston draws upon fieldwork and interviews conducted in the San Francisco Bay area to explore the ways gay men and lesbians are constructing their own notions of kinship by drawing on the symbolism of love, friendship, and biology. Annotation c. Book...
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Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explanations of Gay Lives and Literature
by Colm Tóibín Publisher Comments Colm Tand#243;iband#237;n knows the languages of the outsider, the secret keeper, the gay man or woman. He knows the covert and overt language of homosexuality in literature. In Love in a Dark Time, he also describes the solace of finding like-minded...
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Born to Belonging: Writings on Spirit and Justice
by Mab Segrest Publisher Comments Veteran activist Mab Segrest takes readers along on her travels to view a world experiencing extraordinary change. She visits Beijing, for the Fourth World Conference on Women; Atlanta, to examine gentrified Olympic development; Memphis, for the...
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Emerging Lesbian Voices from Japan
by Sharon Chalmers Publisher Comments This book is the first academic exploration of contemporary lesbian sexuality in Japan. Despite increasing exposure and academic research being documented around issues dealing with disadvantaged minority groups in Japan, lesbian sexuality has remained...
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The Construction of Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men
by Lynn Pardie Publisher Comments The Construction of Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men examines individual, social, and cultural influences on attitudes toward lesbians and gay men. This book explores the pervasiveness and widespread social acceptance of heterosexism in the United...
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The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture
by John D'emilio Publisher Comments Something happened in the 1990s, something dramatic and irreversible. A group of people long considered a moral menace and an issue previously deemed unmentionable in public discourse were transformed into a matter of human rights, discussed in every...
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Letters to Our Children: Lesbian & Gay Adults Speak to the New Generation
by Larry Dane Brimner Publisher Comments This important series examines the lives and contributions of lesbian women and gay men to our society. Through biographies, histories, and primary source materials, readers will witness the contributions these men and women have made through history as...
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The Romantic Friendship Reader: Love Stories Between Men in Victorian America
by Axel Nissen Publisher Comments This provocative reader collects short stories, sketches, travel narratives, and novel extracts that represent the flourishing literature of love between men in 19th century America, a time when the primary identity category was gender, not sexuality....
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Living "Difference": Lesbian Perspectives on Work and Family Life
by Gillian A. Dunne Publisher Comments Living "Difference": Lesbian Perspectives on Work and Family Life examines the roles of lesbians in the home, in the workplace, and as parents. Discussing the advantages of female same-sex relationships, this book suggests that these partnerships are...
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Firebrand Sparks Pamphlet #4: Out in the World: International Lesbian Organizing
by Shelley Anderson Publisher Comments Informative and thought-provoking guide with country-by-country, addresses and contact suggestions for linking up with lesbian activities internationally....
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American Homo
by Jeffrey Escoffier Publisher Comments Jeffrey Escoffier traces the emergence of a gay and lesbian political identity over the last four decades in this wide-ranging collection of his most influential essays. Situating the development of gay and lesbian communities in a broad sweep of recent...
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Homosexualities
by Stephen O. Murray Publisher Comments Breathtaking in its historical and geographical scope, this book provides a sweeping examination of the construction of male and female homosexualities, stressing both the variability of the forms same-sex desire can take and the key recurring patterns...
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