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  • Appalachia in Regional Context

    Place Matters

    Edited by Dwight B. Billings, Ann E. Kingsolver ...
    Series series Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies
    In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever. This concept especially holds true in Appalachian studies—a field that brings scholars, activists, artists, and citizens together around the region to contest misappropriations of resources and power and to combat stereotypes of isolation and intolerance. In Appalachia in Regional Context: Place Matters, Dwight B. Billings and Ann ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

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    For four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 1490s to the U.S. Army's massacre of Sioux Indians at Wounded Knee in the 1890s--the indigenous inhabitants of North and South America endured an unending firestorm of violence. During that time the native population of the Western Hemisphere declined by as many as 100 million people. Indeed as ... Read more

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  • Out at the Movies

    A History of Gay Cinema

    by Steven Paul Davies ...
    Over the decades, gay cinema has reflected the community's journey from persecution to emancipation to acceptance. Politicized dramas like Victim in the 1960s, The Naked Civil Servant in the 1970s, and the AIDS cinema of the 1980s have given way in recent years to films which celebrate a vast array of gay lifestyles. Gay films have undergone a major shift from the fringe to the mainstream—2005's ... Read more

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  • Identical Treatment in the Machine of the Law, The Quest for Transgender Civil Rights

    by Joanne Borden ...
    This book explains the transgender phenomenon in an easy to understand and simple way to explain it to others. Also included are over 50 different speeches that are loaded with arguments and ideas for lobbying for transgender civil rights at all levels of government and may be useful for lobbying for any civil rights cause. It combines two topics that are inseparable in achieving justice and ... Read more

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  • Out Our Way

    Gay and Lesbian Life in the Country

    by Michael Riordon ...
    Michael Riordon celebrates the survival of ordinary, extraordinary people whose experiences are rarely reflected in the media. These stories of courage and humour were gathered in the course of two years and 27,000 kilometres of travel, and some three hundred in-person conversations. ... Read more

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  • Montreal’S Gay Village

    The Story of a Unique Urban Neighborhood Through the Sociological Lens

    by Donald W. Hinrichs ...
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  • The Burning Library

    Essays

    by Edmund White ...
    Series series Vintage International
    **From the National Book Award honored author of A Previous Life and a master of American literature comes a dazzling collection of 25 years of groundbreaking essays that redefined politics, language, identity, and friendship.“A testament to White’s versatility, his insatiable curiosity about the emergence of gays in modern American life…. Fascinating.” —San Francisco Chronicle**Along with his ... Read more

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  • Out in the Country

    Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America

    by Mary L. Gray ...
    Series Book 2 - Intersections
    Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Monograph from the Society of Lesbian and Gay AnthropologistsWinner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities SectionWinner of the 2010 Congress Inaugural Qualitative Inquiry Book Award Honorable MentionFrom Wal-Mart drag parties to renegade Homemaker's Clubs, Out in the Country ... Read more

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  • Trash

    A Queer Film Classic

    by Jon Davies ...
    Series series Queer Film Classics
    Jon Davies is the Assistant Curator of Public Programs at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto, and the guest curator of the major touring retrospective ?People Like Us: The Gossip of Colin Campbell.? His writing has been published in a variety of publications from C Magazine to GLQ, as well as in a few anthologies. ... Read more

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    by Joseph J. Fischel ...
    Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent cautions against the adoption of consent as our primary determinant of sexual freedom. For Joseph J. Fischel, consent is not necessarily always ethically sound. It is, he argues, a moralized fiction, and it churns out figures for its normativity: the predatory sex offender and the innocent child.Examining the representation of consent in U.S. law and media ... Read more

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  • The Challenges of Being a Rural Gay Man

    Coping with Stigma

    by Deborah Bray Preston, Anthony R. D'Augelli ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
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  • Transnational LGBT Activism

    Working for Sexual Rights Worldwide

    by Ryan R. Thoreson ...
    The International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC) was founded in 1990 as the first NGO devoted to advancing LGBT human rights worldwide. How, this book asks, is that mission translated into practice? What do transnational LGBT human rights advocates do on a day-to-day basis and for whom? Understanding LGBT human rights claims is impossible, Ryan R. Thoreson contends, without ... Read more

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