Posted in Literary Criticism

Identity Poetics by Linda Garber

Identity Poetics | Linda Garber | ‘Queer theory,’ asserts Linda Garber, ‘alternately buries and vilifies lesbian feminism, missing its valuable insights and ignoring its rich contribut

Posted in Award Winner LGBT Studies/Social Sciences Movie/Media Tie-In

Queer Timing by Susan Potter

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

Posted in Arts & Photography Black Interest Chicana/Latina/Latinx Interest

Resistant Bodies in the Cultural Productions of Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Women by Irune del Rio Gabiola

Resistant Bodies in the Cultural Productions of Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Women | Irune del Rio Gabiola | Resistant Bodies in the Cultural Productions of Transnational Hispanic Caribbean Women: Reimagining Queer Identity examines the art created by several

Posted in Autobiography/Biography Award Winner Black Interest

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments | Saidiya Hartman | ‘Exhilarating…A rich resurrection of a forgotten history.’ ―Parul Sehgal, New York TimesBeautifully written and deeply researched, Wayward Lives, Beau

Posted in LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Lesbian, Queer, and Bisexual Women in Heterosexual Relationships: Narratives of Sexual Identity by Ahoo Tabatabai

Lesbian, Queer, and Bisexual Women in Heterosexual Relationships: Narratives of Sexual Identity | Ahoo Tabatabai | This book draws on interviews with women who left relationships with women to begin relationships with men, and uncovers how the women make sense of w

Posted in Asian Interest LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Terrorist Assemblages by Jasbir K. Puar

Terrorist Assemblages | Jasbir K. Puar | In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relati

Posted in Film and Television LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Televising Queer Women by Rebecca Beirne

Televising Queer Women | Rebecca Beirne | This timely collection provides high-quality interdisciplinary essays which address lesbian and bisexual representation in popular television shows su

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Are External Locus of Control and Passive Coping Style Related to Increased Sexual Victimization for Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer Adult Women? by Emily J. Rastall

Are External Locus of Control and Passive Coping Style Related to Increased Sexual Victimization for Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer Adult Women? | Emily J. Rastall | Prejudice against members of sexual minority groups, or heterosexism, is a pervasive part of modern-day society. Partly as a result of oppression and

Posted in LGBT Studies/Social Sciences

Gender Diversity in Indonesia by Sharyn Graham Davies

Gender Diversity in Indonesia | Sharyn Graham Davies | Indonesia provides particularly interesting examples of gender diversity. Same-sex relations, transvestism and cross-gender behaviour have long been n

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Gothic Queer Culture by Laura Westengard

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