Gay Studies category: 1383 books
Seeing Straight
An Introduction to Gender and Sexual Privilege
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Seeing Straight introduces students to key concepts in gender and sexuality through the lens of privilege and power. After an accessible overview, the book asks students to examine the privilege inherent in approaching heterosexual and cisgender identities as “normal,” as well as the problems...
Regarding Sedgwick
Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is one of the most important figures in the history of modern gender studies. This book, which features an interview with Sedgwick, is a collection of new essays by established scholars
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Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
This is the only book that systematically examines transgender sex work in the United States and globally. Bringing together perspectives from a rich range of disciplines and experiences, it is an invaluable resource on issues related to commercial sex in the transgender community and in the lives...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
This volume explores education in the Deep South, with a focus on LGBTQ students and educators, and on queer theoretical perspectives in education. The topics in this volume include teaching LGBTQ issues and queer studies in the Deep South, educational policy and practice in the Deep South as related...
The Global Tourism System
Governance, Development and Lessons from South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Focusing on the political economy of the international tourism sector in the era of globalization and its impact in developing contexts, this book employs a case study analysis of South Africa to assess how international tourism as a global system of trade, production, exchange and governance plays...
Gender Circuits
Bodies and Identities in a Technological Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
The new edition of Gender Circuits explores the impact of new technologies on the gendered lives of individuals through substantive sociological analysis and in-depth case studies. Examining the complex intersections between gender ideologies, social scripts, information and biomedical technologies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Sexual citizenship is a powerful concept associated with debates about recognition and exclusion, agency, respect and accountability. For young people in general and for gender and sexually diverse youth in particular, these debates are entangled with broader imaginings of social transitions: from...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
Premodern Sexualities offers rigorous new approaches to current problems in the historiography of sexuality. From queer readings of early modern medical texts to transcribing and interrogating premodern documents of sexual transgression, the contributors bring together current theoretical discourses...
by Brett Lunceford
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Although nudity is something that everyone has experience with, public nudity is still largely considered taboo. Public Nudity and the Rhetoric of the Body examines instances of public nudity where sexuality is at the forefront of public body display. It presents a range of case studies: the legal...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
This new collection explores for the first time male sex work from a rich array of perspectives and disciplines. It aims to help enrich the ways in which we view both male sex work as a field of commerce and male sex workers themselves.
Leading contributors examine the field both historically...
Gentlemen's Disagreement
Alfred Kinsey, Lewis Terman, and the Sexual Politics of Smart Men
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
What is the relationship between intelligence and sex? In recent decades, studies of the controversial histories of both intelligence testing and of human sexuality in the United States have been increasingly common—and hotly debated. But rarely have the intersections of these histories been examined....
by Leo Bersani
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Leo Bersani, known for his provocative interrogations of psychoanalysis, sexuality, and the human body, centers his latest book on a surprisingly simple image: a newborn baby simultaneously crying out and drawing its first breath. These twin ideas—absorption and expulsion, the intake of physical...
Sexuality in School
The Limits of Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
From concerns over the bullying of LGBTQ youth and battles over sex education to the regulation of sexual activity and the affirmation of queer youth identity, sexuality saturates the school day. Rather than understand these conflicts as an interruption to the work of education, Jen Gilbert explores...
Transgender Migrations
The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Transgender Migrations brings together a top-notch collection of emerging and established scholars to examine the way that the term "migration" can be used not only to look at the way trans bodies migrate from one gender to the (an?) other, but the way that trans people migrate in the larger...