Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Religion and LGBTQ Sexualities
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
This compiled and edited collection engages with a theme which is increasingly attracting scholarly attention, namely, religion and LGBTQ sexuality. Each section of the volume provides perspectives to understanding academic discourse and wide-ranging debates around LGBTQ sexualities and religion and...
Queer Philologies
Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare's Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
For Jeffrey Masten, the history of sexuality and the history of language are intimately related. In Queer Philologies, he studies particular terms that illuminate the history of sexuality in Shakespeare's time and analyzes the methods we have used to study sex and gender in literary and cultural history....
by Sara Ahmed
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: “I just want you to be happy”; “I’m happy if you’re happy.” Combining philosophy and...
Acts of Passion
Sexuality, Gender, and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
The first volume to focus exclusively on lesbian performance work, Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender, and Performance draws on the experiences and expertise of a wide range of lesbian practitioners and theorists to explore the impact and influences of sexuality and gender on performance. It examines...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Lesbian images are everywhere these days–cable television, film, popular magazines, advertising, Internet and the news–creating desire in men and women alike, selling commercial products and services, and stirring up controversy on many levels. But do these images truly represent the diverse identities...
Los Invisibles
A History of Male Homosexuality in Spain, 1850-1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Research into homosexuality in Spain is in its infancy. The last ten or fifteen years have seen a proliferation of studies on gender in Spain but much of this work has concentrated on women's history, literature and femininity. In contrast to existing research which concentrates on literature and...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Sex work is a subject of significant contestation across academic disciplines, as well as within legal, medical, moral, feminist, political and socio-cultural discourses. A large body of research exists, but much of this focuses on the sale of sex by women to men and ignores other performances, practices,...
Love the Sin
Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2003
Sex. Religion. There is no denying that these two subjects are among the most provocative in American public life. Even the constitutional principle of church-state separation seems to give way when it comes to sex: the Supreme Court draws on theology as readily as it draws on case law when rendering...
Sexual Identities and the Media
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Sexual Identities and the Media encourages students to examine media as a site of negotiation for how people make sense of their own and others’ sexual identities. Taking a critical/cultural approach, Wendy Hilton-Morrow and Kathleen Battles weave together theory, synthesis of existing research,...
by Paul Mathews
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
The first paper here describes salient aspects of male prostitution of Ermita (Manila, Philippines) in the 1980s and '90s. I suggest various reasons for such prostitution, how the boys reconcile their activities with church and societal morality, and also how they construct their sexual identity....
Tomorrow's Parties
Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Honorable Mention for the 2014 MLA Alan Bray Memorial Award
Finalist for the 2013 LAMBDA LGBT Studies Book Award
In nineteenth-century America—before the scandalous trial of Oscar Wilde, before the public emergence of categories like homo- and heterosexuality—what were the parameters...
by Michelle Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Learn how lesbian couples deal with political, social, and legal issues related to their relationships-and their professions
Lesbian Academic Couples is a collection of writings by scholars who examine-in theory and in narrative-issues faced by partners working in the academic field, including...
Looking Like What You Are
Sexual Style, Race, and Lesbian Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Looks can be deceiving, and in a society where one's status and access to opportunity are largely attendant on physical appearance, the issue of how difference is constructed and interpreted, embraced or effaced, is of tremendous import.
Lisa Walker examines this issue with a focus on the questions...
Sadomasochism
Powerful Pleasures
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
A book that dispels the myths about those who prefer to go beyond vanilla sex
Sadomasochism: Powerful Pleasures is a comprehensive exploration of the entire sexual subculture that lies on the cutting edge of society. The mental health professions and society have marginalized people who...