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Even though they are the largest sexual minority group in the United States, the lives, joys, and struggles of bi+ people, as well as the social structure of monosexism, are regularly overlooked in ……続きを見る

This book includes essays that directly uncover how power asymmetries and related forms of marginalization and oppression function in the political and policy arenas with a special emphasis on the i……続きを見る

It's Saturday night in Key West and the Girlie Show is about to begin at the 801 Cabaret. The girls have been outside on the sidewalk all evening, seducing passersby into coming in for the show. The……続きを見る

For decades, the history of sexuality has been a multidisciplinary project serving competing agendas. Lesbian, gay, and queer scholars have produced powerful narratives by tracing the homosexual or ……続きを見る

What is the role of the senses in how we understand the world? Cognitive sociology has long addressed the way we perceive or imagine boundaries in our ordinary lives, but Asia Friedman pushes this q……続きを見る

What is the relationship between intelligence and sex? In recent decades, studies of the controversial histories of both intelligence testing and of human sexuality in the United States have been in……続きを見る

On the battlefields of World War II, with their fellow soldiers as the only shield between life and death, a generation of American men found themselves connecting with each other in new and profoun……続きを見る

Losing weight and changing your sexual orientation are both notoriously difficult to do successfully. Yet many faithful evangelical Christians believe that thinness and heterosexuality are godly ide……続きを見る

In Men without Maps, John Ibson uncovers the experiences of men after World War II who had same-sex desires but few affirmative models of how to build identities and relationships. Though heterosexu……続きを見る

"Heterosexuality," assumed to denote a universal sexual and cultural norm, has been largely exempt from critical scrutiny. In this boldly original work, Jonathan Ned Katz challenges the common notio……続きを見る

With thorough documentation of the oppression of homosexuals and biographical sketches of the lesbian and gay heroes who helped the contemporary gay culture to emerge, Sexual Politics, Sexual Commun……続きを見る

Using extensive interviews, hundreds of transcripts, focus-group discussions with viewers, and his own experiences as an audience member, Joshua Gamson argues that talk shows give much-needed, high-……続きを見る

"At various times, homosexuality has been considered the noblest of loves, a horrible sin, a psychological condition or grounds for torture and execution. David F. Greenberg's careful, encyclopedic ……続きを見る

In this dramatic and compelling narrative, anthropologist Don Kulick follows the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes (called travestis in Portuguese) in the Brazilian city Salvador. Traves……続きを見る

Lambda Literary Award Winner: The history of the tactics used by US law enforcement to harass and attack gay communities across the country. In the mid-twentieth century, gay life flourished in Amer……続きを見る

A heavily illustrated history of two centuries of male beauty in British culture. Spanning the decades from the rise of photography to the age of the selfie, this book traces the complex visual and ……続きを見る

During the Middle Ages in Europe, some sexual and gendered behaviors were labeled "sodomitical" or evoked the use of ambiguous phrases such as the "unmentionable vice" or the "sin against nature." H……続きを見る

For over half a century, organizations and individuals promoting ex-gay, conversion and/ or reparative therapy have pushed the tenet that a person may be able to, and should, alter their sexual orie……続きを見る

An Ordinary Landscape of Violence: Women Loving Women in Guyana tells a new history of queer women in postcolonial Guyana. While the country has experienced a rise in queer activism, especially towa……続きを見る

'Bracing, nourishing and wonderfully pro-woman' Victoria Smith, author of Hags 'A big-hearted, infuriating, clever and highly entertaining read, just like the woman who wrote it' Kathleen Stock, aut……続きを見る

'Your book is the "really good book. Just one" that Roger Butler would have wanted' - Sir Ian McKellen 'Absorbing and often very moving' - Peter Parker, Spectator 'Sir, we are homosexuals . . .' So ……続きを見る

Lorsque paraît aux États-Unis le roman Burning Crossfires "– L’Escalade des Feux Croisés –", des deux côtés de l’Atlantique, c’est la consécration. Les lumières se braquent sur Georges au point où u……続きを見る

Fear of contagion, isolated patients, a surge of overwhelming and unpreventable deaths, and the frontline healthcare workers who shouldered the responsibility of seeing us through a deadly epidemic:……続きを見る

With this book, Leila J. Rupp accomplishes what few scholars have even attempted: she combines a vast array of scholarship on supposedly discrete episodes in American history into an entertaining an……続きを見る

This guidebook is designed to increase readers’ social resilience and assertiveness in response to minority stress. It highlights the need for belonging and community building and a safe, collaborat……続きを見る

Der vorliegende Band erforscht Bewegungen der Verrückung, Querung und Grenzüberschreitung in romanischen Kulturräumen des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts. Die Aufsätze widmen sich der interdisziplinären Ve……続きを見る

‘another a piece of the puzzle that is unearthing women’s stories from the past ... a beautifully told history’ – Books+Publishing A joyous look at the history of lesbian and bisexual women in Austr……続きを見る

The aftermath of Algeria's revolutionary war for independence coincided with the sexual revolution in France, and in this book Todd Shepard argues that these two movements are inextricably linked.? ……続きを見る

Dieses Buch bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die Geschichte der LGBTIQ* Communities seit den 1970er Jahren, vornehmlichim deutschsprachigen bzw. österreichischen Raum. Neben der diskursanalyt……続きを見る

Literature on sex, intimacy and sexuality in later life has been heavily influenced by perspectives from more affluent regions, perpetuating the belief that the West is more sexually progressive and……続きを見る