Offers a complete empirical account of US government programs, policies, and interventions outside the United States on behalf of the human rights of LGBTQ people.

Draws on theology and queer theory to argue for the power of humiliating pleasures in a culture oriented very strongly to denying any enjoyment that is not about success.

Revises key psychoanalytic concepts that influence interpretive practices in the humanities and formulates a new approach to reading fiction.

Offers a more democratic way to think about families, politics, and public life.

Investigates the rise and fall of US American lesbian cultural institutions since the 1970s.

Combines psychoanalysis, queer theory, masculinity studies, and cultural studies to explore contemporary manhood in film.

Addresses the absence of Jewish subjects in intersectionality studies and demonstrates how to do intersectionality work inclusive of Jewish perspectives.

Offers essays demonstrating the critical relevance of Irigaray’s thought of sexual difference for addressing contemporary ethical and social issues.

Presents new scholarship, images, and primary sources that explore the art and legacy of a critical yet under-recognized figure in Abstract Expressionism and twentieth-century American art.

The first book to focus on the experience of LGBT archival research.

Provides sophisticated theoretical approaches to Latin American cinema and sexual culture.

Uses the state of Oklahoma as a case study for how US conservatives have attempted to unqueer America since the 1950’s.

Presents new ways of thinking about the human and the humanities through a rethinking of Antigone.

When, in the late eighties, the author chooses to raise a child with her lesbian partner, she embraces a life outside the lines—one full of curious adventures as well as the usual catastrophes and everyday pleasures.

Examines strategies and best practices that effectively integrate LGBTQ areas of teaching and research with student life activities.

Offers the first queer reading of all ten of Morrison's novels.

Examines a range of fiction that challenges widespread assumptions about what it means to be a black person of faith.

Examines the intersections of “Latino,” “queer,” and “American,” to illustrate how the categories of class, race, gender, sexuality, and ethnicity are directly entangled with issues of citizenship and belonging.

Uses historical case studies to illuminate women’s claims to emancipation and to sexual subjectivity during the tumultuous Wilhelmine and Weimar periods in Germany.

Examines the importance of Leo Bersani’s work for queer theory, psychoanalysis, literary criticism and theory, cultural studies, and film studies.

Discusses how theories of queer performativity, as articulated within the US Academy, are unable to capture the whole of Latino American queer subjectivity and experience.

Explores how a younger and more sensitive form of masculinity emerged in the United States after World War II.

Examines the grassroots activism of an Internet-mediated collegiate lesbian and gay organization in Turkey.

A cultural studies consideration of marriage and those considered “deviant” in the nineteenth-century American imagination.

Provocative reading of the role masochism plays in structuring the aesthetics and political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.