Illustrates the diversity of Jewish lesbian queer experience through a range of topics, voices, and genres, encouraging readers to rethink narrow conceptions of Jewishness.

A wide-ranging overview of contemporary literary works by LGBTQ Appalachians with a focus on LGBTQ themes and characters.

This textbook offers accessible, academically sound information on a wide range of LGBTQ+ topics. The 12 chapters cover LGBTQ+ history, culture, and Queer Theory, but also explore LGBTQ+ relationships, families, parenting, health, and education - as well as a separate chapter on how to conduct research on LGBTQ+ topics.

Examines how contemporary Mexican literature uses humor to contest heteronormativity.

Incorporates a unique diplomatic, insider perspective to explain the unexpected incorporation of LGBTI rights into American and Swedish foreign policies.

Shares the unique story of a Christmas tree farm in Poughkeepsie, New York, where, for over four decades, women artists boldly built a space where they could create community and art together.

A significant contribution to anthropology, history, and gender studies that reveals the denials of homosexuality in traditional and contemporary African societies to be rooted in colonialist ideologies.

The gripping memoir of a young man’s struggle with his sexuality and Muslim identity, culminating in his rise to the Dutch Parliament.

Reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800 to recover echoes of a queer messianic that still resonate today.

Argues that queer Israeli emigrants engage in a deliberately unheroic form of resistance to Zionism.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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 1960s Bronx tomboy learns how to survive her brutal but humorous Italian family and all the rest that life throws her. The harder you hit the pavement, the higher you fly.

Uses ethnography and cultural analysis to track scenes of intimate connection and disconnection among gay men across an array of media sites.

Offers an analysis of the political economy of care in order to explain how lesbian and gay citizens in Europe benefit from equality more than those in the United States.

A story of two twentieth-century American women whose love for each other fueled their work to create an egalitarian world.

Collection of letters written to the first openly gay magazine in the United States.

Argues that debates about Jewish identity and assimilation are signs of creative potential rather than crisis.

Develops Foucault’s late work on friendship into a novel critique of contemporary GLBT political strategy.

An analysis of unpublished letters to the first American gay magazine reveals the agency, adaptation, and resistance occurring in the gay community during the McCarthy era.

Queer theory essays on time and becoming in the fields of literature, philosophy, film, and performance.

Traces the origins of contemporary analogies between queerness and blackness.

A demographic portrait of gay and lesbian couples who live together in committed relationships.

Provocative take on the negative effects of increasing queer visibility and assimilation on the lives of queer people and politics in the U. S.

Uses iconic dandy and queer figures to explore relationships between homosexuality, modernism, and modernity.

First collection of essays by queer scholars with working-class backgrounds.

Explores the Christian Right’s use of tailored rhetorics to advance multiple and varied antigay political projects.

Interrogates the normative heterosexual family from feminist, Jewish, and queer perspectives.

Examines the construction of gender in public school employment.

Looks at how both anti-gay and AIDS activists use apocalyptic language to describe the AIDS crisis.

Articles and essays on the construction of male sexuality by a pioneer in the field of masculinity studies.

Examines the relationship between gay male athletes, sport, and American masculinity.

Essays on the experience of lesbians in contemporary Israeli society.

Offers a multiple-genred mosaic of multiple resistances to oppression through a variety of styles and mediums.

Taking a post-psychoanalytic, queer-theoretical approach, this book links philosophical and aesthetic issues in two distinct periods through the examination of a variety of imaginative texts, from canonical poetry and fiction to avant-garde music and film.

Examines Gombrowicz’s modernist aesthetics in the context of his critique of nationalism, his exploration of queer eroticism, and his interest in hybrid and subaltern identities.