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Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critiqueby Roderick A. FergusonISBN 0816641293 (0-8166-4129-3)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Another Mother Tongue: Gay Words, Gay Worldsby Judy GrahnISBN 0807067164 (0-8070-6716-4)
Hardcover, Beacon Press
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Another Mother Tongue : Gay Words, Gay Worldsby Judy Rae Grahn, MerriamISBN 0807079111 (0-8070-7911-1)
Softcover, Beacon Press
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Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Outby Loraine Hutchins, Lani KaahumanuISBN 1555831745 (1-55583-174-5)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns
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Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Lifeby Marjorie GarberISBN 0415926610 (0-415-92661-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life'Book summary:"Bisexuality is about three centuries overdue . . . nevertheless, here it is: a learned, witty study of how our curious culture has managed to get everything wrong about sex."
-Gore Vidal
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Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sexby Judith ButlerISBN 0415903661 (0-415-90366-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex'Book summary:In Bodies That Matter, Judith Butler further develops her distinctive theory of gender by examining the workings of power at the most "material" dimensions of sex and sexuality. Deepening the inquiries she began in Gender Trouble, Butler offers an original reformulation of the materiality of bodies, examining how the power of heterosexual hegemony forms the "matter" of bodies, sex, and gender.
Butler argues that power operates to constrain "sex" from the start, delimiting what counts as a viable sex. She offers a clarification of the notion of "performativity" introduced in Gender Trouble and explores the meaning of a citational politics. The text includes readings of Plato, Irigaray, Lacan, and Freud on the formation of materiality and bodily boundaries; "Paris is Burning," Nella Larsen's "Passing," and short stories by Willa Cather; along with a reconsideration of "performativity" and politics in feminist, queer, and radical democratic theory. [via]More editions of Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex:
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Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Communityby Madeline D. Davis, Elizabeth Lapovsky KennedyISBN 0415902932 (0-415-90293-2)
Hardcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community'Book summary:Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold traces the evolution of the lesbian community in Buffalo, New York from the mid-1930s up to the early 1960s. Drawing upon the oral histories of 45 women, it is the first comprehensive history of a working-class lesbian community. These poignant and complex stories show how black and white working-class lesbians, although living under oppressive circumstances, nevertheless became powerful agents of historical change.
Based on 13 years of research, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold ranges over such topics as sex, relationships, coming out, butch-fem roles, motherhood, aging, racism, work, oppression and pride. Kennedy and Davis provide a unique insider's perspective on butch-fem culture and argue that the roots of gay and lesbian liberation are found specifically in the determined resistance of working-class lesbians. [via]More editions of Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community:
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Borderlands: The New Mestiza = La Fronteraby Gloria AnzalduaISBN 0933216254 (0-933216-25-4)
Softcover, Spinsters/Aunt Lute
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Borderlands: The New Mestiza = La Frontera'Book summary:Experimental, inventive, provocative and above all visionary, Gloria Anzaldúa's work is widely recognized among scholars of Chicano/Latino, Gay and Lesbian, Women's, Postcolonial, Ethnic and Cultural Studies as a foundational elaboration of the politics and poetics of cultural hybridity. Both Borderlands/La Frontera and Making Face/Making Soul: Haciendo Caras are all about understanding the complex and competing social, political and cultural forces that shape-sometimes quite brutally-the experiences of women of color in the U.S., and they are all about taking that understanding and mobilizing it toward creative and revisionary efforts for making social change.
"One of the 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century"-Hungry Mind Review (Spring 1999)
"Anzaldúa's voyage of discovery, focused on the border and the new mestiza, is a preparation for the future. The border is a bundle of contradictions and ambiguities... This hybrid crossroads is just the right kind of training ground. It is fertile area for mutations and transformations. In Borderlands/ La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldúa is our guide with an all-encompassing vision to charge the border with meaning."-The Americas Review
"[She] explores in prose and poetry the murky, precarious existence of those living on the frontier between cultures and languages. . . .she meditates on the conditions of Chicanos in Anglo culture, women in Hispanic culture, and lesbians in the straight world. ...a powerful document."-Library Journal
A "Best of 1987" Library Journal selection.
"Anzaldúa's vision encompasses spiritual and experiential aspects of female power, as well as the day-to-day courage and struggle that has characterized Chicano survival."-The San Francisco Chronicle [via]More editions of Borderlands: The New Mestiza = La Frontera:
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Borderlands/LA Fronteraby Gloria AnzalduaISBN 1879960567 (1-879960-56-7)
Softcover, Aunt Lute Books
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The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Moviesby Vito RussoISBN 0060961325 (0-06-096132-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies'Book summary:When Vito Russo published the first edition of The Celluloid Closet in 1981, there was little question that it was a groundbreaking book. Today it is still one of the most informative and provocative books written about gay people and popular culture. By examining the images of homosexuality and gender variance in Hollywood films from the 1920s to the present, Russo traced a history not only of how gay men and lesbians had been erased or demonized in movies but in all of American culture as well. Chronicling the depictions of gay people such as the "sissy" roles of Edward Everett Horton and Franklin Pangborn in 1930s comedies or predatory lesbians in 1950s dramas (see Lauren Bacall in Young Man with a Horn and Barbara Stanwyck in Walk on the Wild Side), Russo details how homophobic stereotypes have both reflected and perpetrated the oppression of gay people. In the revised edition, published a year before his death in 1990, Russo added information on the new wave of independent and gay-produced films--The Times of Harvey Milk, Desert Hearts, Buddies--that emerged during the 1980s. --Michael Bronski [via]
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Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Centuryby John BoswellISBN 0226067114 (0-226-06711-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay membersamong them priests, bishops, and even saintswhen it was first published twenty-five years ago. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this one of the most extensive treatments of any single aspect of Western social history. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, still fiercely relevant today, helped form the disciplines of gay and gender studies, and it continues to illuminate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force.
"What makes this work so exciting is not simply its contentfascinating though that isbut its revolutionary challenge to some of Western culture's most familiar moral assumptions."Jean Strouse, NewsweekMore editions of Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century:
Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopediaby Steve Hogan, Lee HudsonISBN 0805060316 (0-8050-6031-6)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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The Culture of Desire: Paradox and Perversity in Gay Lives Todayby Frank BrowningISBN 0679750304 (0-679-75030-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Eight Bullets: One Woman's Story of Surviving Anti-Gay Violenceby Claudia Brenner, Hannah AshleyISBN 1563410559 (1-56341-055-9)
Softcover, Firebrand Books
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Epistemology of the Closetby Eve Kosofsky SedgwickISBN 0520078748 (0-520-07874-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Epistemology of the Closet'Book summary:Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual life of the U.S. This has been, to no small degree, due to the popularity of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's critically acclaimed Epistemology of the Closet. Working from classic texts of European and American writers--including Herman Melville, Henry James, Marcel Proust, and Oscar Wilde--Sedgwick delineates a historical moment in which sexual identity became as important a demarcation of personhood as gender had been for centuries.
Sedgwick's literary analysis, while provocative and often startling (you will never read Billy Budd or The Picture of Dorian Gray the same way again), is simply the basis for a larger project of examining and analyzing how the categories of "homosexual" and "heterosexual" continue to shape almost all aspects of contemporary thought. Epistemology of the Closet is a sometimes-dense work, but one filled with wit and empathy. Sedgwick writes with great intelligence and an eye for irony, but always makes clear that her theories and critical acumen are in the service of a politic that seeks to make the world a better and more humane place for everyone. An extraordinary book that reshapes how we think about literature, sexuality, and everyday life. --Michael Bronski [via]
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The Fact of a Doorframeby Adrienne Cecile RichISBN 0393323951 (0-393-32395-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fact of a Doorframe'Book summary:A selection of poems from nine of Adrienne Rich's earlier books, to which she adds new work and four early "lost" poems. [via]
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Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theoryby Social Text Collective, Michael WarnerISBN 0816623341 (0-8166-2334-1)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Female Masculinityby Judith HalberstamISBN 0822322439 (0-8223-2243-9)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Female Masculinity'Book summary:Readers who have followed the postmodern gender debate in the university presses (ranging from Thais Morgan's sedately twisted analyses of Victorian male lesbianism to Judith Butler's acclaimed Gender Trouble) will delight in the latest little earthquake: Judith Halberstam's deft separation of masculinity from the male body in Female Masculinity. If what we call "masculinity" is taken to be "a naturalized relation between maleness and power," Halberstam argues, "then it makes little sense to examine men for the contours of that masculinity's social construction." We can learn more from other embodiments of masculinity, like those found in drag-king performances, in the sexual stance of the stone butch, and in female-to-male transgenderism. Halberstam's subject is so new to critical discourse that her approach can be somewhat scattershot--there is simply too much to say--but her prose is lucid and deliberate, and her attitude refreshingly relaxed. Essential reading for gender studies and a lively contribution to cultural studies in general. --Regina Marler [via]
Feminism Meets Queer Theoryby Naomi Schor, Elizabeth WeedISBN 0253211182 (0-253-21118-2)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Freaks Talk Back: Tabloid Talk Shows and Sexual Nonconformityby Joshua GamsonISBN 0226280659 (0-226-28065-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940by George ChaunceyISBN 0465026214 (0-465-02621-4)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Gender Troubleby Judith ButlerISBN 1428815627 (1-4288-1562-7)
Softcover, Academic Internet Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender Trouble'Book summary:Never HIGHLIGHT a Book Again! Virtually all testable terms, concepts, persons, places, and events are included. Cram101 Textbook Outlines gives all of the outlines, highlights, notes for your textbook with optional online practice tests. Only Cram101 Outlines are Textbook Specific. Cram101 is NOT the Textbook. Accompanys: 9780415924993 [via]
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Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identityby Judith ButlerISBN 0415389550 (0-415-38955-0)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gender Trouble: Feminism And the Subversion of Identity'Book summary:In a new introduction to the 10th-anniversary edition of Gender Trouble--among the two or three most influential books (and by far the most popular) in the field of gender studies--Judith Butler explains the complicated critical response to her groundbreaking arguments and the ways her ideas have evolved as a result. Nevertheless, she has resisted the urge to revise what has become a feminist classic (as well as an elegant defense of drag, given Butler's emphasis on the performative nature of gender). The book was produced, according to Butler, "as part of the cultural life of a collective struggle that has had, and will continue to have, some success in increasing the possibilities for a livable life for those who live, or try to live, on the sexual margins." An attack on the essentialism of French feminist theory and its basis in structuralist anthropology, Gender Trouble expands to address the cultural prejudices at play in genetic studies of sex determination, as well as the uses of gender parody, and also provides a critical genealogy of the naturalization of sex. A primer in gender studies--and sexy reading for college cafés. --Regina Marler [via]
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Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binaryby Joan Nestle, Riki Anne Wilchins, Clare HowellISBN 1555837301 (1-55583-730-1)
Softcover, Alyson Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary'Book summary:[via]Perhaps more than any other issue, gender identity has galvanized the queer community in recent years. The questions go beyond the nature of male/female to a yet-to-be-traversed region that lies somewhere between and beyond biologically determined gender. In this groundbreaking anthology, three experts in gender studies and politics navigate around rigid, societally imposed concepts of two genders to discover and illuminate the limitless possibilities of identity. Thirty first-person accounts of gender construction, exploration, and questioning provide a groundwork for cultural discussion, political action, and even greater possibilities of autonomous gender choices. Noted scholar Joan Nestle is joined by internationally prominent gender warrior Riki Anne Wilchins and historian Clare Howell to provide a societal, cultural, and political exploration of gender identity.
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Media campaign hilighting authors Nestle and WilchinsJoan Nestle is the cofounder of the Lesbian Herstory Archives in New York and the writer and editor of six books including the groundbreaking Women on Women series. Riki Anne Wilchins is the executive director of GenderPAC, the national gender advocacy group, and the cofounder of the Gender Identity Project of New York City's Lesbian and Gay Center. She is the author of Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender. Clare Howell is a senior librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library.
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The Girls Next Door: Into the Heart of Lesbian Americaby Lindsy Van Gelder, Pamela Robin BrandtISBN 0684839571 (0-684-83957-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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Long misperceived as a separatist coven, a default option, or a sort of ladies' auxiliary to the gay men's movement, lesbian life has achieved a new visibility in the past few years. But for all the interest in who's out and who's not (yet), there's been surprisingly little understanding of the diversity and richness of lesbian experience.
This funny, lively, and perceptive book will change all that. Drawing on more than a hundred interviews with women around the country, and on their own keen wits and eyes, Van Gelder and Brandt have composed an unprecedented portrait of how gay women today -- "born" and "made," lipsticked and flannel-shirted alike -- think, feel, love, and live. Three major "tribal" events -- the long-running Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, "Dinah" (the annual Dinah Shore Golf Tournament and party circuit, a mecca for upwardly mobile luppies), and a cross-country trek with the activist Lesbian Avengers en route to the 1994 Stonewall commemoration -- provide points of entry into an exploration of lesbian identity, social dynamics, and politics that's as entertaining as it is revealing. The result is a kaleidoscopic portrait that will resonate with lesbians themselves and reveal to their "neighbors" a world of unsuspected vibrancy and depth. [via]
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Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Pastby Martha Vicinus, George Chauncey, Martin DubermanISBN 0453006892 (0-453-00689-2)
Hardcover, New American Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past'Book summary:A collection of 30 essays which explore homosexuality in various cultures, and different eras, from late imperial China and Renaissance Italy to "Jazz-Age" America and from London to Harlem and Japan. Other chapters look at male prostitutes, cross-dressing and schoolgirl crushes in public schools. [via]
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Hidden from History : Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Pastby Martin B. Duberman, Martha Vicinus, Chauncey, George, Jr.ISBN 0452010675 (0-452-01067-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Homophobia: A Historyby Byrne R. S. FoneISBN 0312420307 (0-312-42030-7)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Homophobia: A History'Book summary:The first comprehensive history of homophobia-from ancient Athens to the halls of Congress-this bold, original work is certain to become a classic.[via]
It is the last acceptable prejudice. In an age when racial and ethnic name-calling are viewed with distaste, and physical epithets are frowned upon, hatred of homosexuals remains rife. Now, in a tour de force of historical and literary research, Byrne Fone chronicles the evolution of homophobia through the centuries. Delving into literary sources as diverse as Greek philosophy, the Bible, Elizabethan poetry, and the Victorian novel, as well as historical texts and propaganda from the French Revolution to the Moral Majority, Fone finds that same-sex desire has always been the object of legal, social, and religious persecution. Fone shows how the biblical story of Sodom became the primary source for later prohibitions against homosexuality. He charts the subtle shifts in public attitudes and law, from Anglo-Saxon edicts that imposed death by burning upon "confess'd sodomytes," to Victorian decrees that punished sodomy with "forfeiture of all rights, including procreation" (i.e., castration). Sifting the evidence of our own times, including Reader's Digest articles and TV talk-show transcripts, Fone demonstrates that homophobia remains one of the central tenets of law, science, faith, and literature, and defines the very essence of what it means to be male or female. Written by an acclaimed expert in gay and lesbian history, Homophobia is the best sort of history: lively, accessible, and enlightening.
Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexismby Suzanne PharrISBN 0962022217 (0-9620222-1-7)
Softcover, Womens Project
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Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism/Includes Afterword and Annotated Bibliographyby Suzanne PharrISBN 1890759015 (1-890759-01-5)
Softcover, Womens Project
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Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Culturesby Gayatri GopinathISBN 0822335131 (0-8223-3513-1)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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In A Queer Time And Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Livesby Judith HalberstamISBN 0814735851 (0-8147-3585-1)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In A Queer Time And Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives'Book summary:In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative formsespecially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are appropriated within mainstream culture.
In a Queer Time and Place opens with a probing analysis of the life and death of Brandon Teena, a young transgender man who was brutally murdered in small-town Nebraska. After looking at mainstream representations of the transgender body as exhibited in the media frenzy surrounding this highly visible case and the Oscar-winning film based on Brandon's story, Boys Dont Cry, Halberstam turns her attention to the cultural and artistic production of queers themselves. She examines the transgender gaze, as rendered in small art-house films like By Hook or By Crook, as well as figurations of ambiguous embodiment in the art of Del LaGrace Volcano, Jenny Saville, Eva Hesse, Shirin Neshat, and others. She then exposes the influence of lesbian drag king cultures upon hetero-male comic films, such as Austin Powers and The Full Monty, and, finally, points to dyke subcultures as one site for the development of queer counterpublics and queer temporalities.
Considering the sudden visibility of the transgender body in the early twenty-first century against the backdrop of changing conceptions of space and time, In a Queer Time and Place is the first full-length study of transgender representations in art, fiction, film, video, and music. This pioneering book offers both a jumping off point for future analysis of transgenderism and an important new way to understand cultural constructions of time and place.
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In Search of Gay America: Women and Men in a Time of Changeby Neil MillerISBN 0871133040 (0-87113-304-0)
Hardcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theoriesby Diana FussISBN 0415902371 (0-415-90237-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Inside/Out: Lesbian Theories, Gay Theories'Book summary:In the space of a decade, lesbians and gays have gone from "coming out" to "acting up" to "outing". In the process, they have radically redefined the way society views sex, sexuality and gender. But what does it mean to say one is gay? A dyke? A queen? Queer? Are these descriptions of "sexual preference" or cries of political protest? The first collection to specifically feature the new theoretical work in lesbian and gay studies, "Inside / out" challenges the heterocentric foundations of much recent critical scholarship and current theories of sexual difference. Written by prominent contemporary lesbian and gay thinkers, the essays investigate the complex relations between desires and identifications, libidinal economies and social configurations, political representations and sexual symbolizations. The authors employ a variety of theoretical approaches (psychoanalysis, deconstruction, semiotics and discourse theories) to investigate representations of sex and sexual difference in literature, film, video, music and photography. Looking at divas, dykes, vampires and queens, these analyses address issues of AIDS, pornography, pedagogy, authorship and activism. This book should be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates and academics interested in gender, gay and cultural studies. [via]
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The Lesbian and Gay Studies Readerby Henry Abelove, Michele Aina Barale, David M. HalperinISBN 0415905192 (0-415-90519-2)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader'Book summary:Bringing together forty-two groundbreaking essays--many of them already classics--The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader provides a much-needed introduction to the contemporary state of lesbian/gay studies, extensively illustrating the range, scope, diversity, appeal, and power of the work currently being done in the field. Featuring essays by such prominent scholars as Judith Butler, John D'Emilio, Kobena Mercer, Adrienne Rich, Gayle Rubin, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader explores a multitude of sexual, ethnic, racial, and socio-economic experiences.
Ranging across disciplines including history, literature, critical theory, cultural studies, African American studies, ethnic studies, sociology, anthropology, psychology, classics, and philosophy, this anthology traces the inscription of sexual meanings in all forms of cultural expression. Representing the best and most significant English language work in the field, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader addresses topics such as butch-fem roles, the cultural construction of gender, lesbian separatism, feminist theory, AIDS, safe-sex education, colonialism, S/M, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, children's books, black nationalism, popular films, Susan Sontag, the closet, homophobia, Freud, Sappho, the media, the hijras of India, Robert Mapplethorpe, and the politics of representation. It also contains an extensive bibliographical essay which will provide readers with an invaluable guide to further reading.
Contributors: Henry Abelove, Tomas Almaguer, Ana Maria Alonso, Michele Barale, Judith Butler, Sue-Ellen Case, Danae Clark, Douglas Crimp, Teresa de Lauretis, John D'Emilio, Jonathan Dollimore, Lee Edelman, Marilyn Frye, Charlotte Furth, Marjorie Garber, Stuart Hall, David Halperin, Phillip Brian Harper, Gloria T. Hull, Maria Teresa Koreck, Audre Lorde, Biddy Martin, Deborah E. McDowell, Kobena Mercer, Richard Meyer, D. A. Miller, Serena Nanda, Esther Newton, Cindy Patton, Adrienne Rich, Gayle Rubin, Joan W. Scott, Daniel L. Selden, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Barbara Smith, Catharine R. Stimpson, Sasha Torres, Martha Vicinus, Simon Watney, Harriet Whitehead, John J. Winkler, Monique Wittig, and Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano [via]More editions of The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader:
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The Lesbian Bodyby Monique WittigISBN 080706307X (0-8070-6307-X)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Lesbian Body'Book summary:Back in print, this daring novel constitutes a rhapsodic hymn to women's bodies and women's relationships.
"That rare work in fiction . . . the art and the courage are of the highest level."
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My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirelyby Kate BornsteinISBN 0415916739 (0-415-91673-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely'Book summary:Gender isn't just about "male" or "female" anymore - if you have any doubts, just turn on your television. RuPaul is as familiar as tomato ketchup with national radio and television shows, and transgendered folk are as common to talk-shows as screaming and yelling. But if the popularization of gender bending is revealing that "male" and "female" aren't enough, where are we supposed to go from here? Cultural theorists have written loads of smart but difficult-to-fathom texts on gender, but none provide a hands-on, accessible guide to having your own unique gender. With My Gender Workbook , Kate Bornstein brings theory down to Earth and provides a practical approach to living with or without a gender. Bornstein starts from the premise that there are not just two genders performed in today's world, but countless genders lumped under the two-gender framework. Using a unique, deceptively simple and always entertaining workbook format, Bornstein gently but firmly guides you to discover your own unique gender identity. Whether she's using the USFDA's food group triangle to explain gender, or quoting one-liners from real "gender transgressors", Bornstein's first and foremost concern is making information on gender bending truly accessible. With quizzes and exercises that determine how much of a man or woman you are, My Gender Workbook gives you the tools to reach whatever point you desire on the gender continuum. Bornstein also takes aim at the recent flurry of books that attempt to naturalize gender difference, and puts books like Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus squarely where they belong: on Uranus. If you don't think you are transgendered when you sit down to read this book, you will be by the time you finish it! [via]
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The Naked Civil Servantby Quentin CrispISBN 0452254132 (0-452-25413-2)
Softcover, New American Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Naked Civil Servant'Book summary:In this autobiography, Quentin Crisp describes his unhappy childhood and the stresses of adolescence that led him to London. There in bedsits and cafes he found a world of brutality and comedy, of shortlived jobs and precarious relationships. All of which he faced with humour and intelligence. [via]
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Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century Americaby Lillian FadermanISBN 0140171223 (0-14-017122-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America'Book summary:As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism," except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, she reclaims the history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America, tracing the evolution of lesbian identity and subcultures from early networks to more recent diverse lifestyles. She draws from journals, unpublished manuscripts, songs, media accounts, novels, medical literature, pop culture artifacts, and oral histories by lesbians of all ages and backgrounds, uncovering a narrative of uncommon depth and originality.
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The Psychic Life of Power: Theories in Subjectionby Judith P. ButlerISBN 0804728127 (0-8047-2812-7)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spacesby Juana Maria RodriguezISBN 0814775500 (0-8147-7550-0)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Cultureby Siobhan SomervilleISBN 0822324431 (0-8223-2443-1)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture'Book summary:Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was invented as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, Siobhan B. Somerville argues that the emerging understanding of homosexuality depended on the context of the black/white color line, the dominant system of racial distinction during this period. This book thus critiques and revises tendencies to treat race and sexuality as unrelated categories of analysis, showing instead that race has historically been central to the cultural production of homosexuality.[via]
At about the same time that the 1896 Supreme Court Plessy v. Ferguson decision hardened the racialized boundary between black and white, prominent trials were drawing the publics attention to emerging categories of sexual identity. Somerville argues that these concurrent developments were not merely parallel but in fact inextricably interrelated and that the discourses of racial and sexual deviance were used to reinforce each others terms. She provides original readings of such texts as Havelock Elliss late nineteenth-century work on sexual inversion, the 1914 film A Florida Enchantment, the novels of Pauline E. Hopkins, James Weldon Johnsons Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, and Jean Toomers fiction and autobiographical writings, including Cane. Through her analyses of these texts and her archival research, Somerville contributes to the growing body of scholarship that focuses on discovering the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality.
Queering the Color Line will have broad appeal across disciplines including African American studies, gay and lesbian studies, literary criticism, cultural studies, cinema studies, and gender studies.More editions of Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture:
Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian Americaby David L. EngISBN 0822326361 (0-8223-2636-1)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Saint Foucault: Towards a Gay Hagiographyby David M. HalperinISBN 0735104239 (0-7351-0423-9)
Hardcover, Replica Books
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Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europeby John BoswellISBN 0679751645 (0-679-75164-5)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe'Book summary:Both highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners of the same sex, but sanctified them--in ceremonies strikingly similar to heterosexual marriage ceremonies.
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Sister Outsider: Essays and Speechesby Audre LordeISBN 0895941414 (0-89594-141-4)
Softcover, Ten Speed Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches'Book summary:Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde's philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published. These landmark writings are, in Lorde's own words, a call to never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is. . . .
Reviews"...it's been almost a quarter of a century since Audre Lorde's essays and speeches in Sister Outsider made an indelible mark on 20th-century literature. But the words of the black lesbian feminist poet seem as lyrical and unforgettable, and, sadly, as relevant today as when she first tackled everything from racism and homophobia to ageism and class dichotomies. A must-have book that every lesbian should read."Curve Editor's Pick Lorde was a brilliant feminist poet and intellectual whose theories on the power of embracing our internal contradictions as well as the differences between people and groups is the way to powerful coalition building and social progress. New York Post, Sunday Poet and librarian Lorde collected 15 of her finest essays and speeches in this 1984 volume. With her poet's command of language, she addresses sexism, racism, black women, black lesbians, eroticism, and more. Still powerful. Library Journal, Starred Review Audre Lorde is a passionate sage. I say is' and not was' because her keen insights continue to provoke and sustain us and give us courage. The reissue of this book is a gift to longtime admirers and to new readers who have yet to discover the power and grace and splendid audacity of Audre Lorde. Valerie Miner, author of After Eden and professor of feminist studies at Stanford University [Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware. New York Times
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The Straight Mind and Other Essaysby Monique WittigISBN 0807079170 (0-8070-7917-0)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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Tendenciesby Eve Kosofsky SedgwickISBN 0822314215 (0-8223-1421-5)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tendencies'Book summary:Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and truthfulness for current theoretical writing.[via]
The essays range from Diderot, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James to queer kids and twelve-step programs; from "Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl" to a performance piece on Divine written with Michael Moon; from political correctness and the poetics of spanking to the experience of breast cancer in a world ravaged and reshaped by AIDS. What unites Tendencies is a vision of a new queer politics and thought that, however demanding and dangerous, can also be intent, inclusive, writerly, physical, and sometimes giddily fun.-
Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodmanby Leslie FeinbergISBN 0807079413 (0-8070-7941-3)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman'Book summary:Leslie Feinberg has been a leader in the transgender rights movement as long as such a movement has existed. This book is both deeply personal and widely researched. Feinberg examines perceptions of the body, the status of clothing, and the structures of societies that welcome or are threatened by gender variance. The portrait gallery that closes the book contains photographs and capsule biographies of contemporary transgendered people. [via]
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Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Rupaulby Leslie FeinbergISBN 0807079405 (0-8070-7940-5)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Lifeby Michael WarnerISBN 0674004418 (0-674-00441-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Trouble With Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life'Book summary:The Trouble with Normal argues passionately against same-sex marriage, but here's the twist: not because it denigrates the institution of marriage, but because it perpetuates the cultural shame attached to sex between consenting but unmarried adults. When gay men and lesbians try to claim that they're just like "normal folk," Michael Warner writes, they do a profound disservice to other queer folk who choose not to live in monogamous or matrimonial bliss and who believe that the solution to being stigmatized for your sexuality is not to pretend it doesn't exist. Same-sex marriage advocates, he continues, often seem to be willfully blind to the cultural ramifications of their position, viewing marriage as "an intensified and deindividuated form of coming out." They don't seem to realize that if society validates their relationships, other types of relationships will by necessity be invalidated. (He also makes a strong case for the fight against sexual shame's being more than a queer issue, citing 1998's presidential impeachment crisis: "[Bill] Clinton, certainly, was not the first to discover how hard it is in this culture to assert any dignity when you stand exposed as a sexual being.") Extending his analysis, Warner shows how the championing of married gays and lesbians as "normal" is part of the same cultural climate that leads to "quality of life" crackdowns against queercentric businesses--as is already underway in New York City--and a deliberate sabotage of safer-sex education that puts millions of Americans at continued risk of exposure to HIV. Warner's precise, straightforward argument is enlivened by numerous sharp zingers, as when he accuses Andrew Sullivan of "breath[ing] new and bitchy life into Jesuitical pieties" about sexual morality. The Trouble with Normal is a bold, provocative book that forces readers to reconsider what sexual liberation really means. --Ron Hogan [via]
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sureby Dorothy AllisonISBN 0452273404 (0-452-27340-4)
Softcover, Plume
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Two or Three Things I Know for Sure'Book summary:An autobiographical narrative by the author of Bastard out of Carolina explores such topics as love and loss, beauty and terror, and the intricacies of family love and hatred while illuminating the rural poverty of the South. 50,000 first printing. Tour. [via]
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Two-Spirit People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spiritualityby Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, Sabine LangISBN 0252066456 (0-252-06645-6)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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Undoing Genderby Judith ButlerISBN 0415969239 (0-415-96923-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Undoing Gender'Book summary:Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern--and fail to govern--gender and sexuality as they relate to the constraints on recognizable personhood. The book constitutes a reconsideration of her earlier view on gender performativity from Gender Trouble. In this work, the critique of gender norms is clearly situated within the framework of human persistence and survival. And to "do" one's gender in certain ways sometimes implies "undoing" dominant notions of personhood. She writes about the "New Gender Politics" that has emerged in recent years, a combination of movements concerned with transgender, transsexuality, intersex, and their complex relations to feminist and queer theory. [via]
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Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing & Cultural Anxietyby Marjorie B. GarberISBN 0415919517 (0-415-91951-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing & Cultural Anxiety'Book summary:Beginning with the bold claim, "There can be no culture without the transvestite," Marjorie Garber explores the nature and significance of cross-dressing and of the West's recurring fascination with it. Rich in anecdote and insight, Vested Interests offers a provocative and entertaining view of our ongoing obsession with dressing up--and with the power of clothes. [via]
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Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Lifeby Marjorie GarberISBN 0684824124 (0-684-82412-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life'Book summary:Despite the flood of sexuality theory and queer cultural studies in 20th-century academia, bisexuality--and the many questions and problems surrounding it--has been little considered. In Vice Versa, Marjorie Garber, director of the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at Harvard University, takes on this enormous project with refreshing academic rigor and compelling enthusiasm. Covering cultural influences from antiquity through early psychoanalysis to such recent provocateurs as Geraldo Rivera and Susie Bright, Garber calls into question the basic underpinnings of even the most radical views of human sexuality. She suggests that bisexuality is "not just another sexual orientation but rather a sexuality that undoes sexual orientation as a category," and leads us through the ensuing ruckus with wit and grace.
Vice Versa offers personal accounts, clinical studies, and analysis from every possible camp to demonstrate Garber's thesis that bisexuality as an idea and an experience "disappears" or is erased from our discussions of sexuality at every turn through the normalizing (not to mention limiting) influence of the terms of the discussion itself. Her call to recognize bisexuality as not only valid but deeply transgressive--and therefore useful--in our culture is urgent and marked by a great affection for her subjects, from Freud to Madonna. "One of the key purposes of studying bisexuality is not to get people to 'admit' they 'are' bisexual," she says, "but rather to restore to them and the people they have loved the full, complex, and often contradictory stories of their lives." --Jessica Peterson [via]
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Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestizaby Not AvailableISBN 1879960745 (1-879960-74-5)
Softcover, Aunt Lute Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza'Book summary:Cultural Writing. Essays. Latino/Latina Studies. Rooted in Gloria Anzaldua's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the groundbreaking essays and poems in this volume profoundly challenged how we think about identity. BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA remapped our understanding of what a "border" is, seeing it not as a simple divide between here and there, us and them, but as a psychic, social, and cultural terrain that we inhabit, and that inhabits all of us. This twentieth-anniversary edition features new commentaries from prominent activists, artists, and teachers on the legacy of Gloria Anzaldua's visionary work. [via]
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