Category: LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

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Queer Women in Urban China by Elisabeth L. Engebretsen

Elisabeth L. Engebretsen | Queer Women in Urban China | Lala (lesbian) and gay communities in mainland China have emerged rapidly in the 21st century. Alongside new freedoms and modernizing reforms, and wit

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 Asian Interest LGBT Studies/Social Sciences Literary Criticism

Queer China by Hongwei Bao

Hongwei Bao | Queer China | This book analyses queer cultural production in contemporary China to map the broad social transformations in gender, sexuality and desire. It examine

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We’ve Been Here All Along by R. Richard Wagner

R. Richard Wagner | We’ve Been Here All Along | The first of two groundbreaking volumes on gay history in Wisconsin. We’ve Been Here All Along provides an illuminating and nuanced picture of Wiscons

Posted in LGBT Studies/Social Sciences Literary Criticism

Gender(Ed) Identities by Tricia Clasen; Holly Hassel

Tricia Clasen; Holly Hassel | Gender(Ed) Identities | This volume brings together diverse, cross-disciplinary scholarly voices to examine gender construction in children’s and young adult literature. It c

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

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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