Category: LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

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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,

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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.

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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Issue is ‘Ism by Nila Gupta

Nila Gupta | Issue is ‘Ism | This book first appeared in the 1983 Issue 16 of Fireweed, a Canadian feminist quarterly. In these pages women of colour speak about their lives for t

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The Truth That Never Hurts by Barbara Smith

Barbara Smith | The Truth That Never Hurts | The Truth That Never Hurts brings together for the first time more than two decades of literary criticism and political thought about gender, race, se