Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Queer Mobilizations
Social Movement Activism and Canadian Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Undergraduate students in sexuality studies, political science, law, and social movement studies, as well as policy makers, political journalists, and queer activists.
Reading Sexualities
Hermeneutic Theory and the Future of Queer Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Reading Sexualities confronts the reigning practices, priorities, and preoccupations of queer theory and sexuality studies. Looking at a range of texts, from novels to travel narratives to internet porn, Donald E. Hall deftly weaves the theoretical with the literary in order to:
examine the...
The Wallflower Avant-Garde
Modernism, Sexuality, and Queer Ekphrasis
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
The Wallflower Avant-Garde highlights a strain of formalism visible in both modernist literature and contemporary queer studies, drawing attention to an aesthetic that is as quiet and quirky as it is queer. In studies of Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Richard Bruce Nugent, Frank O'Hara, and John Ashbery,...
Religion, Flesh, and Blood
The Convergence of HIV/AIDS, Black Sexual Expression, and Therapeutic Religion
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2015
This is a case study of one congregation within the Unity Fellowship Church Movement that relies on therapeutic religion, a form of religion that strives to equip individuals with psychological capital, by enabling self-expressions and affirmations of social differences. The therapeutic ethic that...
by Carla Freccero, Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2006
In Queer/Early/Modern, Carla Freccero, a leading scholar of early modern European studies, argues for a reading practice that accounts for the queerness of temporality, for the way past, present, and future time appear out of sequence and in dialogue in our thinking about history and texts. Freccero...
Performance in America
Contemporary U.S. Culture and the Performing Arts
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2005
Performance in America demonstrates the vital importance of the performing arts to contemporary U.S. culture. Looking at a series of specific performances mounted between 1994 and 2004, well-known performance studies scholar David Román challenges the belief that theatre, dance, and live music are...
A Small Boy and Others
Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1998
In A Small Boy and Others, Michael Moon makes a vital contributon to our understanding of the dynamics of sexuality and identity in modern American culture. He explores a wide array of literary, artistic, and theatrical performances ranging from the memoirs of Henry James and the dances of Vaslav...
Sexual Discretion
Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
African American men who have sex with men while maintaining a heterosexual lifestyle in public are attracting increasing interest from both the general media and scholars. Commonly referred to as “down-low” or “DL” men, many continue to have relationships with girlfriends and wives who remain...
Spaces between Us
Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
We are all caught up in one another, Scott Lauria Morgensen asserts, we who live in settler societies, and our interrelationships inform all that these societies touch. Native people live in relation to all non-Natives amid the ongoing power relations of settler colonialism, despite never losing inherent...
Ecce Homo
The Male-Body-in-Pain as Redemptive Figure
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Images of suffering male bodies permeate Western culture, from Francis Bacon’s paintings and Robert Mapplethorpe’s photographs to the battered heroes of action movies. Drawing on perspectives from a range of disciplines—including religious studies, gender and queer studies, psychoanalysis, art...
by
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Queer People of Color in Higher Education (QPOC) is a comprehensive work discussing the lived experiences of queer people of color on college campuses. This book will create conversations and provide resources to best support students, faculty, and staff of color who are people of color and identify...
by Godfried Asante, Claudia Bucciferro, Brad Crownover
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Critical Articulations of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation engages scholarly essays, poems, and creative writings that examine the meanings of race, gender, and sexual orientation as interlocking systems of oppression. Each chapter in this volume critically, yet creatively, interrogates the notion...
Global City Futures
Desire and Development in Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2019
Global City Futures offers a queer analysis of urban and national development in Singapore, the Southeast Asian city-state commonly cast as a leading “global city.” Much discourse on Singapore focuses on its extraordinary socioeconomic development and on the fact that many city and national governors...
Queer, Latinx, and Bilingual
Narrative Resources in the Negotiation of Identities
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Shortlisted for the 2018 BAAL Book Prize
This book is a sociolinguistic ethnography of LGBT Mexicans/Latinxs in Phoenix, Arizona, a major metropolitan area in the U.S. Southwest. The main focus of the book is to examine participants’ conceptions of their ethnic and sexual identities and how...