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Gender Bending Detective Fiction by Heather Duerre Humann

Heather Duerre Humann | Gender Bending Detective Fiction | ‘Since the middle of the last century, views on gender norms have shifted. Reflecting these changing attitudes, storylines involving cross-dressing an

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Queer Theory: An Introduction by Annamarie Jagose

Annamarie Jagose | Queer Theory: An Introduction | Annamarie Jagose knows that queer theory did not spring full-blown from the head of any contemporary theorist. It is the outcome of many different inf

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Encyclopedia of Contemporary Lgbtq Literature of the United States by Emmanuel S. Nelson

Emmanuel S. Nelson | Encyclopedia of Contemporary Lgbtq Literature of the United States | Comprehensive in scope and accessible to students and general readers, Encyclopedia of Contemporary LGBTQ Literature of the United States explores con

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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

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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

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The Closet And the Cul-De-Sac by Howard Clayton

Howard Clayton | The Closet And the Cul-De-Sac | The right to privacy is a pivotal concept in the culture wars that have galvanized American politics for the past several decades. It has become a ral

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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

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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

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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

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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