Gay Studies category: 1383 books
by Wayne Koestenbaum
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Wayne Koestenbaum considers the meaning of humiliation in this eloquent work of cultural critique and personal reflection.
The lives of people both famous and obscure are filled with scarlet-letter moments when their dirty laundry sees daylight. In these moments we not only witness the reversibility...
Borrowed Time
An AIDS Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
“An eloquent testimonial to the power of love and the devastation of loss” from the National Book Award–winning author of Becoming a Man (Publishers Weekly).
In 1974, Paul Monette met Roger Horwitz, the man with whom he would share more than a decade of his life. In 1986, Roger died of...
Transgender Emergence
Therapeutic Guidelines for Working with Gender-Variant People and Their Families
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Explore an ecological strength-based framework for the treatment of gender-variant clients
This comprehensive book provides you with a clinical and theoretical overview of the issues facing transgendered/transsexual people and their families. Transgender Emergence: Therapeutic Guidelines for...
by Eva C. Moser
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Trans communities are in the headlines. Everybody has an opinion on ‘what transsexuality is’. But how do trans people them-selves describe being trans? This community based study examined this question. Findings include that the diversity and complexity of people’s experience by far exceeds...
Transpeople
Repudiation, Trauma, Healing
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2008
Transgendered people face an array of interpersonal repudiations in their everyday lives, emanating from the political right through to the left, from social conservatives, various leading psychiatrists, radical feminists, as well as many lesbians and gays. In Transpeople, Christopher Shelley examines...
Out in Africa
Same-Sex Desire in Sub-Saharan Literatures & Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Homosexuality was and still is thought to be quintessentially 'un-African'. Yet in this book Chantal Zabus examines the anthropological, cultural and literary representations of male and female same-sex desire in a pan-African context from the nineteenth century to the present. Reaching back to early...
Animacies
Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is beyond the...
The Drag Queen Anthology
The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Examine the cultural and political implications of male-to-female gender performance!
The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators examines the phenomena of male-to-female gender performance and the people who live it. This provocative...
by Jeffrey Merrick, Michael Sibalis
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Deconstruct changing representations of homosexuality with this important new work of cultural criticism! Homosexuality in French History and Culture explores episodes, patterns, and images of same-sex attraction in France from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, from the essays of Michel de...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
This innovative collection demonstrates the profound effects of feeling on our experiences and understanding of photography. It includes essays on the tactile nature of photos, the relation of photography to sentiment and intimacy, and the ways that affect pervades the photographic archive. Concerns...
Dangerous Families
Queer Writing on Surviving
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Queer survivors piece together the clues to discover their own lives!
Dangerous Families: Queer Writing on Surviving goes beyond the recovery narrative to create a new queer literature of investigation, exploration, and transformation. Twenty-six stories illuminate the reality of growing up...
The Broken Image
Restoring Personal Wholeness through Healing Prayer
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1995
Presents documented case studies of homosexuals and lesbians who have been reoriented to heterosexuality through applied healing prayer.
Queer Activism in India
A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
In Queer Activism in India, Naisargi Dave examines the formation of lesbian communities in India from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with activist organizations in Delhi, a body of letters written by lesbian women, and research with lesbian communities and...
Murder in the Closet
Essays on Queer Clues in Crime Fiction Before Stonewall
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2017
Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots, LGBTQ life was dominated by the negative image of “the closet”—the metaphorical space where that which was deemed “queer” was hidden from a hostile public view. Literary studies of queer themes and characters in crime fiction have tended to focus on the more...