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  • A Pill for Promiscuity

    Gay Sex in an Age of Pharmaceuticals

    Series series Q+ Public
    **2024 Best Book of the Year Award by the GLBTQ Division of the National Communication AssociationFinalist for Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ+ Anthology**For a generation of gay men who came of age in the 1980s and 1990s, becoming sexually active meant confronting the dangers of catching and transmitting HIV. In the 21st century, however, the development of viral suppression treatments and ... Read more

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  • Pleasure Consuming Medicine

    The Queer Politics of Drugs

    by Kane Race ...
    On a summer night in 2007, the Azure Party, part of Sydney’s annual gay and lesbian Mardi Gras, is underway. Alongside the party outfits, drugs, lights, and DJs is a volunteer care team trained to deal with the drug-related emergencies that occasionally occur. But when police appear at the gates with drug-detecting dogs, mild panic ensues. Some patrons down all their drugs, heightening their risk ... Read more

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  • The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies

    Series series The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
    The Year's Work in Showgirls Studies is a fan culture volume that deconstructs how and why Showgirls**, a 1995 drama with a female lead bent on becoming a famous performer in Las Vegas, became a much-contested cult film despite being a critical failure when it released.**The collection orchestrates a conversation between scholarly essay work and archival documentation off... ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Plastic Water

    The Social and Material Life of Bottled Water

    How and why branded bottles of water have insinuated themselves into our daily lives, and what the implications are for safe urban water supplies.How did branded bottles of water insinuate themselves into our daily lives? Why did water become an economic good—no longer a common resource but a commercial product, in industry parlance a “fast moving consumer good,” or FMCG? Plastic Water examines ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Gay Science

    Intimate Experiments with the Problem of HIV

    by Kane Race ...
    Series series Sexuality, Culture and Health
    Since the onset of the HIV epidemic, the behaviour of men who have sex with men has been subject to intense scrutiny on the part of the behavioural and sociomedical sciences. What happens when we consider the work of these sciences to be not merely descriptive, but also constitutive of the realities it describes? The Gay Science pays attention to lived experiences of sex, drugs and the scientific ... Read more

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  • Tinker Belles and Evil Queens

    The Walt Disney Company from the Inside Out

    The first book to address the interaction between the Walt Disney Company and the gay communityFrom its Magic Kingdom theme parks to its udderless cows, the Walt Disney Company has successfully maintained itself as the brand name of conservative American family values. But the Walt Disney Company has also had a long and complex relationship to the gay and lesbian community that is only now ... Read more

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  • English 101 Series: 101 Model Answers for IELTS Writing Task 2

    The model answers provide candidates with ideas that they can use in their own essays, as well as a variety of topic-specific vocabulary and appropriate grammatical structures. The 101 model answers are divided into 10 broad topic areas, such as education and technology. ... Read more

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    A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity

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    Newly revised and updated, this classic manifesto is “a foundational text for anyone hoping to understand transgender politics and culture in the U.S. today” (NPR)A landmark of trans and feminist nonfiction, Whipping Girl is Julia Serano’s indispensable account of what it means to be a transgender woman in a world that consistently derides and belittles anything feminine. In a series of incisive ... Read more

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  • Corpses, Fools and Monsters

    The History and Future of Transness in Cinema

    A radical history of transness in cinema, and an exploration of the political possibilities of its future.In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as threats to the normal order — relegated to a lost highway of corpses, fools, and monsters.In this book, trans film critics Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay take the reader on a drive down ... Read more

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  • Design and Ethics

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    The value of design for contributing to environmental solutions and a sustainable future is increasingly recognised. It spans many spheres of everyday life, and the ethical dimension of design practice that considers environmental, social and economic sustainability is compelling.Approaches to design recognise design as a practice that can transform human experience and understanding, expanding ... Read more

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  • The Purity Myth

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    From the bestselling author of Sex Object, a searing investigation into American culture's obsession with virginity, and the argument for creating a future where women and girls are valued for more than sexualityThe United States is obsessed with virginity--from the media to schools to government agencies. In The Purity Myth, Jessica Valenti argues that the country's intense focus on chastity is ... Read more

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