Gay Studies category: 1383 books
by Karl Schoonover, Rosalind Galt
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Proposing a radical vision of cinema's queer globalism, Karl Schoonover and Rosalind Galt explore how queer filmmaking intersects with international sexual cultures, geopolitics, and aesthetics to disrupt dominant modes of world making. Whether in its exploration of queer cinematic temporality, the...
Authoring Autism
On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
In Authoring Autism Melanie Yergeau defines neurodivergence as an identity—neuroqueerness—rather than an impairment. Using a queer theory framework, Yergeau notes the stereotypes that deny autistic people their humanity and the chance to define themselves while also challenging cognitive studies...
Inclusive Masculinities in Contemporary Football
Men in the Beautiful Game
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Football has traditionally been an institution hostile toward sexual minorities. Boys and men in the sport have deployed high levels of homophobia for multiple reasons. However, the ground-breaking research within this book shows that intolerant attitudes toward gay men are increasingly being challenged....
Queer Voices from Japan
First Person Narratives from Japan's Sexual Minorities
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2007
Queer Voices from Japan examines the wide range of queer voices in Japan, and the longevity that these minority communities have enjoyed in society. Mark McLelland, Katsuhiko Suganuma, and James Welker bring together historical and contemporary narratives that contribute to the study of sexual identities...
American Savage
Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
On the heels of his Emmy-winning It Gets Better campaign, Dan Savage delivers “powerful messages for both the head and heart” (Entertainment Weekly)
From the moment he began writing his syndicated sex-advice column, Savage Love, Dan Savage has never been shy about expressing his opinion...
Queer Retrosexualities
The Politics of Reparative Return
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Queer Retrosexualities: The Politics of ReparativeReturn examines the retrospective logic that informs contemporary queer thinking; specifically the narrative return to the 1950s in post-1990s queer and LGBT culture in the United States. The term “Queer Retrosexuality” marks the intersection between...
by Erica Rand
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 1995
She’s skinny, white, and blond. She’s Barbie—an icon of femininity to generations of American girls. She’s also multiethnic and straight—or so says Mattel, Barbie’s manufacturer. But, as Barbie’s Queer Accessories demonstrates, many girls do things with Barbie never seen in any commercial....
Queering the Countryside
New Frontiers in Rural Queer Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016
Rural queer experience is often hidden or ignored, and presumed to be alienating, lacking, and incomplete without connections to a gay culture that exists in an urban elsewhere. Queering the Countryside offers the first comprehensive look at queer desires...
Space, Place, and Sex
Geographies of Sexualities
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
This accessible and engaging book explores the ways that "space, place, and sex" are inextricably linked from the micro to the macro level, from the individual body to the globe. Drawing on queer, feminist, gender, social, and cultural studies, Lynda Johnston and Robyn Longhurst highlight...
by Dominic Janes
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
With all the heated debates around religion and homosexuality today, it might be hard to see the two as anything but antagonistic. But in this book, Dominic Janes reveals the opposite: Catholic forms of Christianity, he explains, played a key role in the evolution of the culture and visual expression...
by Elizabeth Cramer
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
This book presents an integrated approach toward changing attitudes about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) students, faculty, and staff on contemporary college campuses. From Addressing Homophobia and Heterosexism on College Campuses you can learn specific classroom techniques for...
Sexuality and Socialism
History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
-- The struggle for marriage equality across the U.S., most recently in California, has expanded the space for discussion of gay and lesbian rights and sexual equality in the U.S. -- Gender studies and queer theory courses within academia offer a space in which different ideas of sexuality are discussed and debated
Deviations
A Gayle Rubin Reader
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2011
Deviations is the definitive collection of writing by Gayle S. Rubin, a pioneering theorist and activist in feminist, lesbian and gay, queer, and sexuality studies since the 1970s. Rubin first rose to prominence in 1975 with the publication of “The Traffic in Women,” an essay that had a galvanizing...
Sex For Sale
Prostitution, Pornography, and the Sex Industry
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This groundbreaking collection of essays on the sex industry contains original studies on sex work, its risks and benefits, and its political implications. Sex for Sale covers areas not commonly researched, including gay and lesbian pornography, telephone sex workers, customers of prostitutes, male...