Lesbian / Gay Studies
Doubly Erased
A wide-ranging overview of contemporary literary works by LGBTQ Appalachians with a focus on LGBTQ themes and characters.
Introduction to LGBTQ+ Studies
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.
From Pariah to Priority
Incorporates a unique diplomatic, insider perspective to explain the unexpected incorporation of LGBTI rights into American and Swedish foreign policies.
Between Camp and Cursi
Examines how contemporary Mexican literature uses humor to contest heteronormativity.
Life after the Revolution
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.
Boy-Wives and Female Husbands
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.
Djinn
The gripping memoir of a young man’s struggle with his sexuality and Muslim identity, culminating in his rise to the Dutch Parliament.
A Queer Way Out
Argues that queer Israeli emigrants engage in a deliberately unheroic form of resistance to Zionism.
Echoes of a Queer Messianic
Reconsiders mostly German narratives from around 1800 to recover echoes of a queer messianic that still resonate today.
Because We Are Human
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.
The Disappearing L
Investigates the rise and fall of US American lesbian cultural institutions since the 1970s.
Rethinking Sexual Citizenship
Offers a more democratic way to think about families, politics, and public life.
Ghost Faces
Combines psychoanalysis, queer theory, masculinity studies, and cultural studies to explore contemporary manhood in film.
Despite All Adversities
Provides sophisticated theoretical approaches to Latin American cinema and sexual culture.
Out of the Closet, Into the Archives
The first book to focus on the experience of LGBT archival research.
Oklahomo
Uses the state of Oklahoma as a case study for how US conservatives have attempted to unqueer America since the 1950’s.
The Death of Fred Astaire
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.
Expanding the Circle
Examines strategies and best practices that effectively integrate LGBTQ areas of teaching and research with student life activities.
Desbordes
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.
In the Life and in the Spirit
Examines a range of fiction that challenges widespread assumptions about what it means to be a black person of faith.
Desiring Emancipation
Uses historical case studies to illuminate women’s claims to emancipation and to sexual subjectivity during the tumultuous Wilhelmine and Weimar periods in Germany.
Male Beauty
Explores how a younger and more sensitive form of masculinity emerged in the United States after World War II.
Grassroots Literacies
Examines the grassroots activism of an Internet-mediated collegiate lesbian and gay organization in Turkey.
Virtual Intimacies
Uses ethnography and cultural analysis to track scenes of intimate connection and disconnection among gay men across an array of media sites.
L Is for Lion
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.
Passionate Commitments
A story of two twentieth-century American women whose love for each other fueled their work to create an egalitarian world.
Why Europe Is Lesbian and Gay Friendly (and Why America Never Will Be)
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.
Letters to ONE
Collection of letters written to the first openly gay magazine in the United States.
Identity Papers
Argues that debates about Jewish identity and assimilation are signs of creative potential rather than crisis.
Masked Voices
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.
Friendship as a Way of Life
Develops Foucault’s late work on friendship into a novel critique of contemporary GLBT political strategy.
Queer Times, Queer Becomings
Queer theory essays on time and becoming in the fields of literature, philosophy, film, and performance.
Same-Sex Partners
A demographic portrait of gay and lesbian couples who live together in committed relationships.
Queer Externalities
Provocative take on the negative effects of increasing queer visibility and assimilation on the lives of queer people and politics in the U. S.
Materializing Queer Desire
Uses iconic dandy and queer figures to explore relationships between homosexuality, modernism, and modernity.
Resilience
First collection of essays by queer scholars with working-class backgrounds.
The Metrosexual
Explores the cultural significance of the metrosexual in sports.
Sin, Sex, and Democracy
Explores the Christian Right’s use of tailored rhetorics to advance multiple and varied antigay political projects.
AIDS and American Apocalypticism
Looks at how both anti-gay and AIDS activists use apocalyptic language to describe the AIDS crisis.
Sappho in the Holy Land
Essays on the experience of lesbians in contemporary Israeli society.
The Lesbian Index
Adds historical and philosophical perspectives to current debates over whether lesbian identity is socially constructed or genetically based.
Bodies at Risk
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.