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  • New Directions in Queer Oral History

    Archives of Disruption

    Edited by Clare Summerskill, Amy Tooth Murphy, Emma Vickers ...
    Series series New Directions in History
    This comprehensive international collection reflects on the practice, purpose, and functionality of queer oral history, and in doing so demonstrates the vibrancy and innovation of this rapidly evolving field.Drawing on the roots of oral history’s original commitment to "history from below" queer oral history has become an indispensable methodology at the heart of queer studies. Expanding and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Queen and country

    Same–sex desire in the British Armed Forces, 1939–45

    by Emma Vickers ...
    Series series Gender in History
    The first study of its kind in the UK, Queen and country examines the complex intersection between same-sex desire and the British Armed Forces during the Second World War. It illuminates how men and women lived, loved and survived in an institution which, at least publicly, was unequivocally hostile towards same-sex activity within its ranks. Queen and country also tells a story of selective ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Making Gay History

    The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights

    by Eric Marcus ...
    "Rich and often moving . . . at times shocking, but often enlightening and inspiring: oral history at its most potent and rewarding." — Kirkus ReviewsA completely revised and updated edition of the classic volume of oral history interviews with high-profile leaders and little-known participants in the gay rights movement that cumulatively provides a powerful documentary look at the struggle for ... Read more

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  • Mistaken Identity

    by Sheila Gilhooly ...
    When was the last time you encountered someone whose gender you couldn't identify?The experience is disconcerting, maybe frightening.That is gender shock.These are stories from the life of a woman who is often mistaken for a man. Sheila Gilhooly writes of encounters in change rooms and washrooms, hospitals and police cars, with strangers and people in authority, who all make the same mistake. They ... Read more

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  • Bi Men

    Coming Out Every Which Way

    Edited by Ron Jackson Suresha, Pete Chvany ...
    A moving and pioneering celebration of the male bisexual self that addresses biphobia in our societyIn today’s sexual world, both straight and gay and lesbian communities still often refuse to accept the reality of bisexuality. Bi Men: Coming Out Every Which Way confronts head-on the limiting views that bisexuality is a transitional phase of sexual evolution or a simple refusal to accept being ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Gutted

    by Justin Chin ...
    - Chin’s writings have been anthologized widely; most notably in The Outlaw Bible Of American Poetry (Thunder's Mouth), American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon), The World In Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave (St. Martin's), and Chick For A Day (Simon & Schuster). - Expressions of loss and grief are timeless and speak to a broad audience ... Read more

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  • Thoughts and Things

    by Leo Bersani ...
    Leo Bersani’s career spans more than fifty years and extends across a wide spectrum of fields—including French studies, modernism, realist fiction, psychoanalytic criticism, film studies, and queer theory. Throughout this new collection of essays that ranges, interestingly and brilliantly, from movies by Claire Denis and Jean-Luc Godard to fiction by Proust and Pierre Bergounioux, Bersani ... Read more

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  • Nasty, Nasty Boy

    by Claytoven Walker ...
    At the age of 21, Clay Walker, a gay African American male decides to leave the confines of a religious community he's inhabited for four years. He returns to his family and familiar surroundings only to find he has changed. He is no longer the same as the family members with whom he grew up. Clay decides to go to Cosmetology School, where he meets and befriends a young woman working for Amtrak ... Read more

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  • Touching Feeling

    Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity

    by Michèle Aina Barale, Jonathan Goldberg, Michael Moon, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ...
    Series series Series Q
    A pioneer in queer theory and literary studies, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick brings together for the first time in Touching Feeling her most powerful explorations of emotion and expression. In essays that show how her groundbreaking work in queer theory has developed into a deep interest in affect, Sedgwick offers what she calls "tools and techniques for nondualistic thought," in the process touching and ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Now You See It

    by Richard Dyer ...
    Revised for this second edition, Now You See It, Richard Dyer’s groundbreaking study of films by and about lesbians and gay men, now includes an outline of developments in queer cinema since 1990.Placing the book within lesbian and gay film history, Dyer examines familiar titles such as Girls in Uniform, Un Chant D’Amour and Word is Out in their lesbian/gay context, as well as bringing to light ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Homo Economics

    Capitalism, Community, and Lesbian and Gay Life

    Edited by Amy Gluckman, Betsy Reed ...
    Homo Economics is the first honest account of the tense relationship between gay people and the economy. This groundbreaking collection brings together a variety of voices from the worlds of journalism, activism, academia, the arts, and public policy to address issues including the recent economic history of the gay community, the community's response to its changing economic circumstances, and ... Read more

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  • Queer Street

    Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985

    by James McCourt ...
    "A heroically imaginative account of gay metropolitan culture, an elegy and an apologia for a generation."—New York Times Book ReviewA fierce critical intelligence animates every page of Queer Street. Its sentences are dizzying divagations. The postwar generation of queer New York has found a sophisticated bard singing 'the elders' history' (The New York Times). James McCourt's seminal Queer ... Read more

    $12.99 USD