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  • Are the Kids All Right?

    Representations of LGBTQ Characters in Children's and Young Adult Literature

    by B.J. Epstein ...
    Epstein explores why sex, sexuality and gender non-conformity is something that many writers and publishers of children's and young adult lit appear to shy away from. She demonstrates that the information children get from literature matters, and that so called 'difficult' topics can be communicated in entertaining and informative ways.Uses ideas from queer theory and other research to interrogate ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

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    Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability

    by Robert McRuer, Michael Bérubé ...
    Series Book 9 - Cultural Front
    A bold and contemporary discourse of the intersection of disability studies and queer studies.Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze ... Read more

    $21.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Archive of Feelings

    Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures

    by Ann Cvetkovich ...
    Series series Series Q
    In this bold new work of cultural criticism, Ann Cvetkovich develops a queer approach to trauma. She argues for the importance of recognizing—and archiving—accounts of trauma that belong as much to the ordinary and everyday as to the domain of catastrophe. An Archive of Feelings contends that the field of trauma studies, limited by too strict a division between the public and the private, has ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • In a Queer Time and Place

    Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives

    by Judith Halberstam ...
    Series Book 3 - Sexual Cultures
    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 forms’especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are ... Read more

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  • Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism

    by Julia Serano ...
    In her third book Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism, Julia Serano chronicles her own personal evolution and the many shifts in transgender activism that have occurred since the dawn of the twenty-first century. It is a personal history of where transgender activism has recently been, and a passionate & insightful analysis of where it should head in the future. This ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imagining Transgender

    An Ethnography of a Category

    by David Valentine ...
    Imagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Embraced by activists in the early 1990s to advocate for gender-variant people, the category quickly gained momentum in public health, social service, scholarly, and legislative contexts. Working as a safer-sex activist in Manhattan during ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Virginity Lost

    An Intimate Portrait of First Sexual Experiences

    by Laura Carpenter ...
    An intimate analysis of the first timeNervous, inexperienced, confused. For most, losing your virginity is one of life's most significant moments, always to be remembered. Of course, experiences vary, but Laura Carpenter asks: Is there an ideal way to lose it? What would constitute a "positive" experience? What often compels the big step? And, further, what does "going all the way" really mean for ... Read more

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  • Awfully Devoted Women

    Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65

    by Cameron Duder ...
    Series series Sexuality Studies Series
    The lives of many lesbians prior to 1965 remain cloaked in mystery. Historians have turned the spotlight on upper-middle-class “romantic friends” and on working-class butch and femme women, but the lives of the lower-middle-class majority remain in the shadows. Awfully Devoted Women offers a portrait of middle-class lesbianism in the decades before the gay rights movement in English Canada. This ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • LGBTQ Young Adult Fiction

    A Critical Survey, 1970s-2010s

    by Caren J. Town ...
    Young adult literature featuring teenage lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning characters is fast growing in popularity. Unlike the "problem novels" of the past, which focused on the guilt, bullying and isolation of LGBTQ characters, today's narratives present more sympathetic and celebratory portrayals. The author explores a selection of recent novels--many of which may be new to ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Lesbian Mothers

    Accounts of Gender in American Culture

    by Ellen Lewin ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    Within a society that long considered "lesbian motherhood" a contradiction in terms, what were the experiences of lesbian mothers at the end of the twentieth century? In this illuminating book, lesbian mothers tell their stories of how they became mothers; how they see their relationships with their children, relatives, lovers, and friends and with their children's fathers and sperm donors; how ... Read more

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  • Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools

    by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli ...
    Series series Curriculum, Cultures, and (Homo)Sexualities Series
    The first book of its kind internationally, Border Sexualities, Border Families in Schools explores the experiences of bisexual students, mixed sexual orientation families, and polyamorous families in schools. For the first time, a book foregrounds the voices and experiences of these students and families who are "falling into the gaps" or on the borders of a school's gay/straight divide in anti ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Geisha of a Different Kind

    Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America

    by C. Winter Han ...
    Series Book 12 - Intersections
    In gay bars and nightclubs across America, and in gay-oriented magazines and media, the buff, macho, white gay man is exalted as the ideal—the most attractive, the most wanted, and the most emulated type of man. For gay Asian American men, often viewed by their peers as submissive or too ‘pretty,’ being sidelined in the gay community is only the latest in a long line of racially-motivated offenses ... Read more

    $24.69 USD