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  • About Canada: Queer Rights

    by Peter Knegt ...
    Series Book 1 - About Canada
    Is Canada a “queer utopia”? Canada was the fourth country in the world – and the first in the Western Hemisphere – to legalize same-sex marriage. Queer people in Canada enjoy many of the same legal rights as heterosexuals, and social acceptance of homosexuality has grown exponentially. But are these the goals that queer activists hoped to achieve? Is this legal regulation and normalization of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • "You Can Tell Just By Looking"

    And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People

    by Michael Bronski, Ann Pellegrini, Michael Amico ...
    Series Book 3 - Myths Made in America
    **2014 Lambda Literary Award Finalist: LGBT NonfictionBreaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their lives**In “You Can Tell Just by Looking” three scholars and activists come together to unpack enduring, popular, and deeply held myths about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, culture, and life in America. Myths, such as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Excluded

    Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive

    by Julia Serano ...
    A transformational approach to overcoming the divisions between feminist communitiesWhile many feminist and queer movements are designed to challenge sexism, they often simultaneously police gender and sexuality -- sometimes just as fiercely as the straight, male-centric mainstream does. Some feminists vocally condemn other feminists because of how they dress, for their sexual partners or ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Let Nobody Turn Us Around

    An African American Anthology

    by Mumia Abu-Jamal, Richard Allen, Molefi Kete Asante, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Edward Wilmot Blyden, Cyril V. Briggs, Stokely Carmichael, Frederick Douglass, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, Olaudah Equiano, Louis Farrakhan, Henry Highland Garnet, Fannie Lou Hamer, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, bell hooks, Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., Audre Lorde, Malcolm X, Thurgood Marshall, Claude McKay, Elijah Muhammad, Huey P. Newton, Solomon Northrup, Rosa Parks, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., A Philip Randolph, Paul Robeson, Jo Ann Robinson, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, Bayard Rustin, Maria W. Stewart, Mary Church Terell, Sojourner Truth, Nat Turner, David Walker, Booker T. Washington, Harold Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Roy Wilkins, William Julius Wilson ...
    This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the twentieth century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable and Mullings, introduce the reader to the character and important controversies of each period ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Male Daughters, Female Husbands

    Gender and Sex in an African Society

    by Ifi Amadiume ...
    Series series Essential Amadiume
    Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the YearIn 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands to critical acclaim. Here Amadiume boldly argues that the notion of gender, as constructed in Western feminist discourse, did not exist in Africa before the colonial imposition of a dichotomous understanding of sexual difference ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

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  • 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

  • The Transgender Studies Reader

    Edited by Susan Stryker, Stephen Whittle ...
    Transgender studies is the latest area of academic inquiry to grow out of the exciting nexus of queer theory, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality. Because transpeople challenge our most fundamental assumptions about the relationship between bodies, desire, and identity, the field is both fascinating and contentious. The Transgender Studies Reader puts between two covers fifty ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • In a Queer Country

    Gay & Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context

    by Terry Goldie ...
    A groundbreaking collection of fourteen essays on the struggles, pleasures, and contradictions of queer culture and public life in Canada. Versed in queer social history as well as leading-edge gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, and post-colonial studies, In a Queer Country confronts queer culture from various perspectives relevant to international audiences. Topics range from the politics of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gender Hurts

    A Feminist Analysis of the Politics of Transgenderism

    by Sheila Jeffreys ...
    It is only recently that transgenderism has been accepted as a disorder for which treatment is available. In the 1990s, a political movement of transgender activism coalesced to campaign for transgender rights. Considerable social, political and legal changes are occurring in response and there is increasing acceptance by governments and many other organisations and actors of the legitimacy of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Queering Sexual Violence

    Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement

    by Jennifer Patterson ...
    Often pushed to the margins, queer, transgender and gender non-conforming survivors have been organizing in anti-violence work since the birth of the movement. Queering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement locates them at the center of the anti-violence movement and creates a space for their voices to be heard. Moving beyond dominant narratives and the traditional ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • One Marriage Under God

    The Campaign to Promote Marriage in America

    by Melanie Heath ...
    Series Book 16 - Intersections
    The meaning and significance of the institution of marriage has engendered angry and boisterous battles across the United States. While the efforts of lesbians and gay men to make marriage accessible to same-sex couples have seen increasing success, these initiatives have sparked a backlash as campaigns are waged to "protect" heterosexual marriage in America. Less in the public eye is government ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Postethnic America

    Beyond Multiculturalism

    by David A Hollinger ...
    Sympathetic with the new ethnic consciousness, Hollinger argues that the conventional liberal toleration of all established ethnic groups no longer works because it leaves unchallenged the prevailing imbalance of power. Yet the multiculturalist alternative does nothing to stop the fragmenting of American society into competing ethnic enclaves, each concerned primarily with its own well-being. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD