Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Getting Medieval
Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 1999
In Getting Medieval Carolyn Dinshaw examines communities—dissident and orthodox—in late-fourteenth and early-fifteenth-century England to create a new sense of queer history. Reaching beyond both medieval and queer studies, Dinshaw demonstrates in this challenging work how intellectual inquiry...
Asegi Stories
Cherokee Queer and Two-Spirit Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
In Cherokee Asegi udanto refers to people who either fall outside of men’s and women’s roles or who mix men’s and women’s roles. Asegi, which translates as “strange,” is also used by some Cherokees as a term similar to “queer.” For author Qwo-Li Driskill, asegi provides a means by...
Bisexual Women
Friendship and Social Organization
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Understand the unique emotional dynamics of bisexual women’s friendship relationships
Prevailing attitudes toward bisexuality affect every aspect of a bisexual woman’s emotional and sexual life. Bisexual Women: Friendship and Social Organization comprehensively explores the friendship relationships...
For the Record
On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Anjali Arondekar considers the relationship between sexuality and the colonial archive by posing the following questions: Why does sexuality (still) seek its truth in the historical archive? What are the spatial and temporal logics that compel such a return? And conversely, what kind of “archive”...
Tinderbox
How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In this groundbreaking narrative, longtime Washington Post reporter Craig Timberg and award-winning AIDS researcher Daniel Halperin tell the surprising story of how Western colonial powers unwittingly sparked the AIDS epidemic and then fanned its rise. Drawing on remarkable new science, Tinderbox...
Queering Bathrooms
Gender, Sexuality, and the Hygienic Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The intersection of public washrooms and gender has become increasingly politicized in recent years: queer and trans folk have been harassed for allegedly using the 'wrong' washroom, while widespread campaigns have advocated for more gender-neutral facilities. In Queering Bathrooms, Sheila L. Cavanagh...
Freaks Talk Back
Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformity
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2009
Using extensive interviews, hundreds of transcripts, focus-group discussions with viewers, and his own experiences as an audience member, Joshua Gamson argues that talk shows give much-needed, high-impact public visibility to sexual nonconformists while also exacerbating all sorts of political tensions...
Syrian Episodes
Sons, Fathers, and an Anthropologist in Aleppo
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2007
When Princeton anthropologist John Borneman arrived in Syria's second-largest city in 2004 as a visiting Fulbright professor, he took up residence in what many consider a "rogue state" on the frontline of a "clash of civilizations" between the Orient and the West. Hoping to understand...
Queer Environmentality
Ecology, Evolution, and Sexuality in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Offering a model for meaningful dialogue between queer studies and environmental studies, Robert Azzarello's book traces a queer-environmental lineage in American Romantic and post-Romantic literature. Azzarello challenges the notion that reading environmental literature is unsatisfying in terms of...
Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame
Where “Black” Meets “Queer”
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
Shame, Kathryn Bond Stockton argues in Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame, has often been a meeting place for the signs “black” and “queer” and for black and queer people—overlapping groups who have been publicly marked as degraded and debased. But when and why have certain forms of shame...
Queer Latinidad
Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
According to the 2000 census, Latinos/as have become the largest ethnic minority group in the United States. Images of Latinos and Latinas in mainstream news and in popular culture suggest a Latin Explosion at center stage, yet the topic of queer identity in relation to Latino/a America remains under...
Living "Difference"
Lesbian Perspectives on Work and Family Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
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 able to facilitate more egalitarian ideals...
by Robert Aldrich
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
Colonialism and Homosexuality is a thorough investigation of the connections of homosexuality and imperialism from the late 1800s - the era of 'new imperialism' - until the era of decolonization. Robert Aldrich reconstructs the context of a number of liaisons, including those of famous men such as...
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South, this book powerfully reveals the way these women experience and express racial, sexual, gender, and class identities--all linked by a place where such...