Gay Studies category: 1383 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
“Gender systems pervade and regulate human lives—in law courts and operating rooms, ballparks and poker clubs, hair-dressing salons and kitchens, classrooms and playgroups. . . . Exactly how gender works varies from culture to culture, and from historical period to historical period, but gender...
Diversity in Disney Films
Critical Essays on Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality and Disability
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Although its early films featured racial caricatures and exclusively Caucasian heroines, Disney has, in recent years, become more multicultural in its filmic fare and its image. From Aladdin and Pocahontas to the Asian American boy Russell in Up, from the first African American princess in The Princess...
Sexualities and Irish Society
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
In Ireland, recent social, cultural and political changes combined with globalisation, commercialisation and new technologies have re-shaped how we understand and think about sexuality. There is now a multiplicity of ways in which individuals can experience their sexuality, negotiate their sexual...
Transformations of Gender and Race
Family and Developmental Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Transformations of Gender and Race will help you become a better therapist by arming you with new theories and practices that concern inclusiveness of identity, psyche, and culture in the therapy room. This book radically shifts current thinking in systemic theory and practice with individuals, children,...
We Still Demand!
Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Of particular interest to scholars and students of social history, political science, social movements, gender and transgender studies, women’s studies, and queer studies, this book will also appeal to activists and political analysts interested in critical sexual and gender theory and social change.
Pedagogies of Crossing
Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2006
M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact on feminist, queer, and critical race theories,...
Freedom with Violence
Race, Sexuality, and the US State
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2011
In Freedom with Violence, Chandan Reddy develops a new paradigm for understanding race, sexuality, and national citizenship. He examines a crucial contradiction at the heart of modernity: the nation-state’s claim to provide freedom from violence depends on its systematic deployment of violence against...
by Phil Hubbard
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
From the hotspots of commercial sex through to the suburbia of twitching curtains, urban life and sexualities appear inseparable. Cities are the source of our most familiar images of sexual practice, and are the spaces where new understandings of sexuality take shape. In an era of global business...
Strange Affinities
The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Representing some of the most exciting work in critical ethnic studies, the essays in this collection examine the production of racialized, gendered, and sexualized difference, and the possibilities for progressive coalitions, or the “strange affinities,” afforded by nuanced comparative analyses...
Another Country
Queer Anti-Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
The metropolis has been the near exclusive focus of queer scholars and queer cultures in America. Asking us to look beyond the cities on the coasts, Scott Herring draws a new map, tracking how rural queers have responded to this myopic mindset. Interweaving a wide range of disciplines—art, media,...
Critically Sovereign
Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Critically Sovereign traces the ways in which gender is inextricably a part of Indigenous politics and U.S. and Canadian imperialism and colonialism. The contributors show how gender, sexuality, and feminism work as co-productive forces of Native American and Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination,...
Crip Theory
Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2006
Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as “normal” or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to...
Language, Sexuality, and Power
Studies in Intersectional Sociolinguistics
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Language, Sexuality, and Power: Studies in Intersectional Sociolinguistics examines the diversity of sexuality as a social and linguistic phenomenon. Bringing together work on Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America and the Middle East, the volume explores how different ideologies of what...
The Feeling of Kinship
Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2010
In The Feeling of Kinship, David L. Eng investigates the emergence of “queer liberalism”—the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the United States, economically through an increasingly visible and mass-mediated queer consumer lifestyle, and politically through the legal protection of...