The Women’s House of Detention | Hugh Ryan | This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in
Love’s Refraction | Jillian Deri | Popular wisdom might suggest that jealousy is an inevitable outcome of non-monogamous relationships. In Love’s Refraction, Jillian Deri explores the d
Desiring Emancipation | Marti M. Lybeck | Uses historical case studies to illuminate women’s claims to emancipation and to sexual subjectivity during the tumultuous Wilhelmine and Weimar perio
Queer Embodiment | Hilary Malatino | Merging critical theory, autobiography, and sexological archival research, Queer Embodiment provides insight into what it means to have a legible body
Authority | Andrea Long Chu | Since her canonical 2017 essay ‘On Liking Women’, the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic Andrea Long Chu has established herself as one of the most provoca
Terrorist Assemblages | Jasbir K. Puar | Tenth Anniversary Expanded EditionTen years on, Jasbir K. Puar’s pathbreaking Terrorist Assemblages remains one of the most influential queer theory t
Common Women, Uncommon Practices | Sasha Roseneil | This is a book about how individual, social, political and cultural change is created through the actions of ordinary women. It is about a unique comm
Gothic Queer Culture | Laura Westengard | In Gothic Queer Culture, Laura Westengard proposes that contemporary U.S. queer culture is gothic at its core. Using interdisciplinary cultural studie
Queer Timing | Susan Potter | In Queer Timing, Susan Potter offers a counter-history that reorients accepted views of lesbian representation and spectatorship in early cinema. Pott
Queer Women In Urban China | Elisabeth L. Engebretsen | Lala (lesbian) and gay communities in mainland China have emerged rapidly in the 21st century. Alongside new freedoms and modernizing reforms, and wit