Category: LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Posted in LGBT Studies/Social Sciences Parenting & Families

Not in This Family by Heather Murray

Heather Murray | Not in This Family | Many Americans hold fast to the notion that gay men and women, more often that not, have been ostracized from disapproving families. Not in This Famil

Posted in Anthology - Nonfiction Black Interest LGBT Studies/Social Sciences Literary Criticism

Gender in Lorraine Hansberry’s a Raisin in the Sun by Gary Wiener

Gary Wiener | Gender in Lorraine Hansberry’s a Raisin in the Sun | The landmark play A Raisin in the Sun takes its title from a Langston Hughes poem which poses the questions ‘What happens to a dream deferred? Does it

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Award Winner Black Interest LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Black. Queer. Southern. Women. by E. Patrick Johnson

E. Patrick Johnson | Black. Queer. Southern. Women. | Drawn from the life narratives of more than seventy African American queer women who were born, raised, and continue to reside in the American South,

Posted in Law & Government LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Queer Alliances by Erin Mayo-Adam

Erin Mayo-Adam | Queer Alliances | A unique investigation into how alliances form in highly polarized times among LGBTQ, immigrant, and labor rights activists, revealing the impacts wit

Posted in LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Queer Palestine and the Empire of the Critique by Sa’ed Atshan

Sa’ed Atshan | Queer Palestine and the Empire of the Critique | From Ramallah to New York, Tel Aviv to Porto Alegre, people around the world celebrate a formidable, transnational Palestinian LGBTQ social movement.

Posted in Arts & Photography LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Unplanned Visitors by Olivier Vallerand

Olivier Vallerand | Unplanned Visitors | Sexuality and gender have long been influential in understanding the construction of domestic space, its meanings, often revealing a binary division o

Posted in LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Female Husbands by Manion Jen

Manion Jen | Female Husbands | ‘In 1746, Charles Hamilton of Glastonbury, England found what they were looking for – Mary, a curious young woman who was taken by their charms. With

Posted in Black Interest LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Boy-Wives and Female Husbands by Will Roscoe; Stephen O. Murray

Will Roscoe; Stephen O. Murray | Boy-Wives and Female Husbands | Claims concerning the presence and status of homosexuality in historic African cultures have become central points of contention in debates among cont

Posted in History LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Homophobia: A History by Byrne Fone

Byrne Fone | Homophobia: A History | ‘Byrne Fone chronicles the evolution of homophobia through the centuries. Delving into literary sources as diverse as Greek philosophy, Elizabethan po

Posted in Asian Interest LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Oceanic Homosexualities by Stephen O. Murray

Stephen O. Murray | Oceanic Homosexualities | This book emphasizes societies independent of European cultural influence, examines sacred shamanism, mandatory homosexual initiation, Filipino callbo