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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “ralph sarkonak”
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  • Angelic Echoes

    Hervé Guibert and Company

    by Ralph Sarkonak ...
    Series series University of Toronto Romance Series
    In 1990 Hervé Guibert gained wide recognition and notoriety with the publication of "À l'ami qui ne m'a pas sauvé la vie (To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life)". This novel, one of the most famous AIDS fictions in French or any language, recounts the battle of the first-person narrator not only with AIDS but also with the medical establishment on both sides of the Atlantic. Photography critic ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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    by Marion Zimmer Bradley ...
    Her 1958 novel The Planet Savers introduced the planet of Darkover, which became the setting of a popular series by Bradley and other authors. The Darkover milieu may be considered as either fantasy with science fiction overtones or as science fiction with fantasy overtones, as Darkover is a lost earth colony where psi powers developed to an unusual degree. Bradley wrote many Darkover novels by ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Aberrations in Black

    Toward a Queer of Color Critique

    by Roderick A. Ferguson ...
    Series series Critical American Studies
    A hard-hitting look at the regulation of sexual difference and its role in circumscribing African American cultureThe sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of poverty, race, and economic discrimination. But what is missing from the picture—sexual difference—can be as instructive as what is present. In this ambitious work, Roderick A. Ferguson reveals how the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Assuming a Body

    Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality

    by Gayle Salamon ...
    We believe we know our bodies intimately—that their material reality is certain and that this certainty leads to an epistemological truth about sex, gender, and identity. By exploring and giving equal weight to transgendered subjectivities, however, Gayle Salamon upends these certainties. Considering questions of transgendered embodiment via phenomenology (Maurice Merleau-Ponty), psychoanalysis ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • February House

    The Story of W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, Under One Roof in Brooklyn

    by Sherill Tippins ...
    An "irresistible" account of a little-known literary salon and creative commune in 1940s Brooklyn ( The Washington Post Book World).A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearFebruary House is the true story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers—and America's best-known burlesque performer—in a house at 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn. ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Secret Selves

    Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography

    by Oliver S. Buckton ...
    Focusing on the representation of same-sex desire in Victorian autobiographical writing, Oliver Buckton offers significant new readings of works by some of the most influential figures in late-nineteenth-century literature and culture. Combining original research, careful historical analysis, and contemporary theories of autobiography, gender, and sexual identity, he provides nuanced studies of ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Up from Invisibility

    Lesbians, Gay Men, and the Media in America

    by Larry Gross ...
    Series series Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
    A half century ago gay men and lesbians were all but invisible in the media and, in turn, popular culture. With the lesbian and gay liberation movement came a profoundly new sense of homosexual community and empowerment and the emergence of gay people onto the media's stage. And yet even as the mass media have been shifting the terms of our public conversation toward a greater acknowledgment of ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Are the Lips a Grave?

    A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex

    by Lynne Huffer ...
    Lynne Huffer's ambitious inquiry redresses the rift between feminist and queer theory, traversing the space of a new, post-moral sexual ethics that includes pleasure, desire, connection, and betrayal. She begins by balancing queer theorists' politics of sexual freedoms with a moralizing feminist politics that views sexuality as harm. Drawing on the best insights from both traditions, she builds an ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Lives of Transgender People

    by Genny Beemyn, , Ph.D., Susan Rankin ...
    Responding to a critical need for greater perspectives on transgender life in the United States, Genny Beemyn and Susan (Sue) Rankin apply their extensive expertise to a groundbreaking survey-one of the largest ever conducted in the U.S.-on gender development and identity-making among transsexual women, transsexual men, crossdressers, and genderqueer individuals. With nearly 3,500 participants, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Queer Renaissance

    Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities

    by Robert McRuer ...
    Before the 1969 Stonewall Riots ushered in the contemporary gay liberation movement, overt representations of same-sex desire in American literature and the arts were few and far between. Even in the 1970s, when gay and lesbian cultures began to register on our national consciousness, such work was still quite rare.In the 1980s and 90s, however, all that changed. The Queer Renaissance puts a name ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Feeling Backward

    Loss and the Politics of Queer History

    by Heather Love ...
    Feeling Backward weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for same-sex marriage and for gay-themed media brings clear benefits, gay assimilation entails other losses--losses that have been hard to identify or mourn, since many aspects of historical gay culture are so closely associated with the pain and shame of the closet ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Politics of Passion

    Women's Sexual Culture in the Afro-Surinamese Diaspora

    by Gloria Wekker ...
    Series series Between Men-Between Women: Lesbian and Gay Studies
    Gloria Wekker analyzes the phenomenon of mati work, an old practice among Afro-Surinamese working-class women in which marriage is rejected in favor of male and female sexual partners. Wekker vividly describes the lives of these women, who prefer to create alternative families of kin, lovers, and children, and gives a fascinating account of women's sexuality that is not limited to either ... Read more

    $32.99 USD