A groundbreaking intersectional memoir exploring disability, queerness, class, environmental destruction, and gender identity through the lens of a white disabled genderqueer writer’s personal experiences and political activism.
This comprehensive textbook helps social workers understand and meet the needs of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people.
A bestselling food writer’s candid memoir about discovering her attraction to women at age 36, navigating the dissolution of her marriage, coming out to family and friends, and redefining her identity and understanding of family.
A groundbreaking scholarly collection that makes black queer studies visible as a developing field, bringing together established and emerging scholars to assess theoretical and political issues at the intersection of race and sexuality in the United States.
It includes significant historical accounts of women-loving-women, such as 19th-century actor Charlotte Cushman’s ‘female marriage,’ cross-dressing female soldiers in the Civil War, and the Daughters of Bilitis.
A raw punk rock memoir chronicling Syrian-American Rayya Elias’s journey from her childhood in Aleppo through Detroit to 1980s Lower East Side New York, where she pursued music and hairstyling while exploring her sexuality with lovers of both sexes, battling heroin addiction, experiencing homelessness and incarceration, and ultimately finding redemption and sobriety.
This academic work examines sexualities within Hispanic cultures and literatures, which would necessarily include analysis of lesbian and wlw identities, experiences, and representations in Latina/Hispanic contexts.
An anthology of groundbreaking work mapping, contextualizing, and challenging queer theory’s project with fifteen essays by influential scholars, activists, performers, and visual artists essential for anyone interested in sexuality studies or gender activism.
It includes significant historical accounts of women-loving-women, such as 19th-century actor Charlotte Cushman’s ‘female marriage,’ cross-dressing female soldiers in the Civil War, and the Daughters of Bilitis.
This anthropological collection edited by Evelyn Blackwood examines homosexuality cross-culturally, including significant scholarship on female same-sex relationships and lesbian identities in diverse societies around the world.