Gay Studies category: 1383 books
by Candy Kross
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
I raised the paddle once again and landed it across her ass cheeks a second time. Little red circles appeared on her ass cheeks from the holes in the center of the leather paddle. She let out another scream. Then I asked her the million dollar question. One that every Dom knows that no matter how...
Wagadu Volume 15
Epistemic Injustice in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Epistemic injustice points to experiences that we struggle to articulate due to the injuries of hegemonic speech. Detecting such injuries enables social philosophers and activists alike to name injustices, which have not been previously addressed as such. By looking at epistemic injustice in practice,...
by Michael Young
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016
James VI & I, the namesake of the King James Version of the Bible, had a series of notorious male favourites. No one denies that these relationships were amorous, but were they sexual? Michael B. Young merges political history with recent scholarship in the history of sexuality to answer that...
The Pink Triangle
The Nazi War Against Homosexuals
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
This is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The author, a German refugee, examines the climate and conditions that gave rise to a vicious campaign against Germany's gays, as directed by Himmler and his SS--persecution that resulted in tens of thousands...
The First Man-Made Man
The Story of Two Sex Changes, One Love Affair, and a Twentieth-Century Medical Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2008
In the 1920s, when Laura Dillon felt like a man trapped in a woman's body, there were no words to describe her condition; transsexual had yet to enter common usage. And there was no known solution to being stuck between the sexes. In a desperate bid to feel comfortable in her own skin, she experimented...
by C.A. Tripp
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2005
The late C. A. Tripp, a highly regarded sex researcher and colleague of Alfred Kinsey, and author of the runaway bestseller The Homosexual Matrix, devoted the last ten years of his life to an exhaustive study of Abraham Lincoln's writings and of scholarship about Lincoln, in search of hidden keys...
They Saw the Elephant
Women in the California Gold Rush
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
"The phrase ’seeing the elephant’ symbolized for ’49 gold rushers the exotic, the mythical, the once-in-a-lifetime adventure, unequaled anywhere else but in the journey to the promised land of fortune: California. Most western myths . . . generally depict an exclusively male gold rush....
by Ann Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
This landmark study offers a rogues’ gallery of women—from the Colonial Era to the 20th century—who answered abuse and oppression with murder: “A classic” (Gloria Steinem).
Women rarely resort to murder. But when they do, they are likely to kill their intimates: husbands, lovers,...
by William John Stapleton
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
The Twilight Soi dwells on the dangers of one of the world's most beautiful and intoxicating cities, Bangkok. It is named after one of Bangkok's more infamous small streets, or sois as they are known. Soi Twilight runs off the main thoroughfare of Surawong in the centre of Bangkok's oldest entertainment...
The Sex Lives of Australians
A History
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2015
Winner of the 2013 ACT Book of the Year Award Cross-dressing convicts, effeminate bushrangers and women-shortage woes – here is the first ever history of sex in Australia, from Botany Bay to the present-day. In this fascinating social history, Frank Bongiorno uses striking examples to chart the changing...
by Laura Mechem
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2013
A collection of poems exploring one lesbian's unrequited love for a woman who identifies as straight. Haven't we all been there? This full-color booklet is filled with poems of both traditional and free verse. Using religious imagery to describe the holiness of the union that exists between two women...
Western Queers in China
Flight to the Land of Oz
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
This unique work examines the role played by sexuality in the historical encounter between China and the West. Distinguished historian D. E. Mungello focuses especially on Western homosexuals who saw China as a place of escape from the homophobia of Europe and North America. His groundbreaking study...
Homosteading at the 19Th Parallel
<Br>One Man's Adventures Building His Nightmare Dream House on the Big Island of Hawaii
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
A man from Arizona buys a piece of land in the middle of a lava field while vacationing in Hawaii and returns to the island to find a deeper sense of home and build his midlife crisis tropical dream house.
In this assemblage of journal entries during the trying year of construction, the author...
The Gus Van Sant Touch
A Thematic Study--Drugstore Cowboy, Milk and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Beloved, controversial, influential, the creator of such fascinating and award-winning films as My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, Elephant, and Milk, Gus Van Sant stands among the great international directors, equally at home in Hollywood and the avant-garde. Examining his films thematically,...