Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Trans Like Me
Conversations for All of Us
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
A personal and culture-driven exploration of the most pressing questions facing the transgender community today, from a leading activist, musician, and academic
In Trans Like Me, CN Lester takes readers on a measured, thoughtful, intelligent yet approachable tour through the most important...
by Noretta Koertge
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
For a balanced discussion of the main social, medical, and philosophical aspects of homosexuality, here is the ideal book. Written by philosophers of science, each comprehensive chapter takes a critical look at research on the etiology of homosexuality. Read Philosophy and Homosexuality and examine...
Sexual Subjects
Lesbians, Gender and Psychoanalysis
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Sexual Subjects, a psychoanalytic book informed by gender theory, queer theory and feminism, addresses the tensions inherent in writing about lesbians and sexuality in the postmodern age.
Adria Schwartz masterfully intertwines clinical anecdotes with engaging theoretical questions that examine...
by John Dececco, Phd, Michael Shively
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
This well-documented book highlights some of the theories of bisexual and homosexual identities and their conceptual bases in cultural history, moral philosophy, biology, and social psychology. Some of the most respected minds in the field of human sexuality challenge traditional views on homosexuality...
by David F. Greenberg
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2008
"At various times, homosexuality has been considered the noblest of loves, a horrible sin, a psychological condition or grounds for torture and execution. David F. Greenberg's careful, encyclopedic and important new book argues that homosexuality is only deviant because society has constructed,...
Femme
Feminists, Lesbians and Bad Girls
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Femme seeks to redress the ways that femme identities have been elided, idealized, or not fully historicized in a productive reconsideration of lesbian and butch-femme history, of feminism, and of queer thought. As a feminist project, Femme offers an alliance between many communities of women previously...
Ghostly Desires
Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Through an examination of post-1997 Thai cinema and video art Arnika Fuhrmann shows how vernacular Buddhist tenets, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring current struggles over notions of personhood, sexuality, and collective life. The drama, horror, heritage, and experimental...
Coming Out and Disclosures
LGBT Persons Across the Life Span
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
LGBT persons face multiple challenges when entering the coming out process, regardless of their age or place in society. Coming Out and Disclosures: LGBT Persons Across the Life Span is a comprehensive guide to the coming out process for LGBT individuals, how to prepare for disclosure, and how disclosure is received in various groups. The book exam
Rarely Pure and Never Simple
Selected Essays of Scott O'Hara
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
A follow-up to O’Hara’s steamy and provocative book Autopornography: A Memoir of Life in the Lust Lane, Rarely Pure and Never Simple: Selected Essays of Scott O’Hara shares with you more intimate stories from former porn star Scott O’Hara. You’ll gain an even deeper sense of the man behind...
Do Ask, Do Tell: When Liberty Is Stressed
Updates to Bill of Rights Ii; Essays on Challenges to Free Speech and to Other Liberties
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
As our culture has placed increasing importance on the individual, it may be time to consider reinforcing our rights. Individual liberties have recently come under severe stress; not only from the necessary war on terror but also from corporate misconduct and well-founded concerns about managing exploding...
How Soon Is Now?
Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
How Soon Is Now? performs a powerful critique of modernist temporal regimes through its revelatory exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as of the potential queerness of time itself. Carolyn Dinshaw focuses on medieval tales of asynchrony and on engagements with these medieval temporal...
Overcoming Masculine Depression
The Pain Behind the Mask
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
In Overcoming Masculine Depression, psychologists John Lynch and Christopher Kilmartin present a model that provides new ways of understanding men’s behaviors. This unique book does not portray men as victims, but seeks to increase awareness that a great deal of depression in men is misunderstood...
by Edward Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This vintage book contains Edward Carpenter's ground-breaking study of homosexuality, "Intermediate Types Among Primitive Folk - A Study In Social Evolution". It is a fascinating study of social evolution centered on the idea that there is a spectrum of 'types' of man and woman. The author...
Charity and Sylvia
A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Conventional wisdom holds that same-sex marriage is a purely modern innovation, a concept born of an overtly modern lifestyle that was unheard of in nineteenth century America. But as Rachel Hope Cleves demonstrates in this eye-opening book, same-sex marriage is hardly new. Born in 1777, Charity Bryant...