Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Queering Conflict
Examining Lesbian and Gay Experiences of Homophobia in Northern Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Queering Conflict offers a unique culturally specific analysis into the ways in which homophobia in Northern Ireland has been informed and sustained during the latter half of the twentieth century. This book takes the failure of the British Government to extend the 1967 Sexual Offences Act to Northern...
by Erich W Steinman, Brett Genny Beemyn
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Gain a fresh perspective on this misunderstood sexual orientation!
From invisible to pathological, the literary, cultural, and theoretical representations of male bisexuality have been almost uniformly negative. Bisexual Men in Culture and Society provides a clear, rational analysis of the...
Pink 2.0
Encoding Queer Cinema on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
In an era where digital media converges with new technologies that allow for cropping, remixing, extracting, and pirating, a second life for traditional media appears via the internet and emerging platforms. Pink 2.0 examines the mechanisms through which the internet and associated technologies both...
Lesbian Rites
Symbolic Acts and the Power of Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Explore affirmation and coping rituals for lesbian singles, couples, and communities!
This pioneering book is a multidisciplinary compilation of scholarship addressing lesbians, the rituals in their lives, and the meaning and impact of those rituals for the women involved and the people and...
by Luke Breindl
Language: German
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Dieses Buch stellt dir schwulen Sex vor, der so fern ab vom Altbekannten ist, dass er womöglich deine bisherige Vorstellungskraft sprengen wird - selbst dann, wenn du glaubst, schon alles zu kennen. Gayklappe, Gangbang, Gaysauna? Alles längst normal! Spießer und verklemmte Mauerblümchen also aufgepasst:...
by Eduardo Savarese
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Un credente omosessuale scrive e manda la sua personale lettera, animata dal desiderio che la Chiesa muti radicalmente la propria tradizionale visione della morale sessuale e familiare. Nel bel mezzo del dibattito politico e mediatico sul tema delle nozze gay, e dopo le sentenze della Corte Suprema...
by JEAN LE BITOUX
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 23, 2014
Per gli omosessuali si è trattato di una doppia violenza, di vittime senza peso specifico, senza status, senza memoria, fantasmi di uno sterminio che aveva replicato nei lager il copione millenario dell’omofobia. (dall'introduzione di Nichi Vendola) Berlino con i suoi celebri locali, meta dei gay...
by Gabriele Strazio, Matteo M. Winkler
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 8, 2011
Proibizioni, discriminazioni, persecuzioni. Spronato dall’interdetto biblico, in ogni tempo il diritto è stato strumento di soprusi ed esclusioni contro gay e lesbiche. Proprio per aver vestito quest’abito, ancora non del tutto abbandonato, si può qualificarlo come «abominevole». È inevitabile...
Queering the Color Line
Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2000
Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was “invented” as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, Siobhan...
Lesbian Families' Challenges and Means of Resiliency
Implications for Feminist Family Therapy
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
An inside look at the unique challenges of the lesbian experience
Lesbian Families’ Challenges and Means of Resiliency: Implications for Feminist Family Therapy is a unique collection of interdisciplinary feminist examinations of the resiliency of lesbian couples and families. Leading feminist...
Wagadu
Queering Borders: Transnational Feminist Perspectives on Global Heterosexism
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2015
Traditionally, transnational feminists have examined the fields of gender, sexuality and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (LGBTQ) studies by critically addressing issues of colonialism, white supremacy, globalization, capitalism, and heterosexism. Like most fields within higher education,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2011
Lesbian Realities/Lesbian Fictions in Contemporary Spain, edited by Nancy Vosburg and Jacky Collins, focuses exclusively on manifestations of lesbian cultures and identities in contemporary Spain. Bringing together key essays from a range of international scholars, this anthology of critical essays...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Groundbreaking information for caregivers—and those receiving care
It is more common now than ever before for partners, family members, and friends to provide informal care, yet caregiving in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities has received little attention. Caregiving...
by Michèle Aina Barale, Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 1993
Queering the Renaissance offers a major reassessment of the field of Renaissance studies. Gathering essays by sixteen critics working within the perspective of gay and lesbian studies, this collection redraws the map of sexuality and gender studies in the Renaissance. Taken together, these essays...