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This volume proposes "e;speaking up"e; and "e;talking back"e; as new theoretical access points for studying feminist activism in digital spaces.

Rapacious dykes, self-loathing closet cases, hustlers, ambiguous sophisticates, and sadomasochistic rich kids: most of what America thought it knew about gay people it learned at the movies.

Drawing on autotheoretical methods, this insightful volume explores how LGBTQ+ scholars, practitioners, and scholar-practitioners exist within and negotiate an insider/outsider paradox within higher education, highlighting issues of affect, legibility, and embodiment.

A practical and accessible guide that researchers will draw on time and time again, The Guide to LGBTQ+ Research has at its heart, a commitment to inclusivity.

Here is an essential resource filled with advice for providing social services to gay and lesbian couples.

Offers alternative insights into the complex relationship between politics and intelligentsia in revolutionary Cuba.

Queer Campus Climate: An Ethnographic Fantasia is a visceral and provocative account of the lives of ten queer college men living in the Deep South.

Sexuality was critical to how individuals experienced, learned, and contested their place in early America.

How would you react if your son told you he was gay?

Being gay is not a given.

Men in all stages of transition have come and gone from my life, and each one has been entirely different.

Feminism for Girls presents feminist perspectives on aspects of adolescence which have been chosen for their special relevance to the lives and experiences of girls and young women today.

They Must Be Represented examines documentary in print, photography, television and film from the 1930s through the 1980s, using the lens of recent feminist film theory as well as scholarship on race, class and gender emerging from the new interdisciplinary approach of American cultural studies.

The Desiring-Image yields new models of queer cinema produced since the late 1980s, based on close formal analysis of diverse films as well as innovative contributions to current film theory.

Sexual Outsiders: Understanding BDSM Sexualities and Communities delves into the unique experiences of individuals in BDSM communities.

For South Asia, fashion and consumption have come to play an increasingly important role in the lives of young people and in the formation of youth cultures.

This book argues for the importance of narrative theories which consider gender and sexuality through the analysis of a diverse range of texts and media.

The history of sexuality is central to social history, the history of ideas, the realization or repression of human rights, and other areas of focus.

Drawing on autotheoretical methods, this insightful volume explores how LGBTQ+ scholars, practitioners, and scholar-practitioners exist within and negotiate an insider/outsider paradox within higher education, highlighting issues of affect, legibility, and embodiment.

This book is both a retrospective history of the gay community's use of electronic media as a way of networking and creating a sense of community, and an examination of the current situation, an analysis and critical assessment of gay/lesbian electronic media.

"e;This updated edition of Bornstein's formative My Gender Workbook (1997) provides an invigorating introduction to contemporary theory around gender, sexuality, and power.

A follow-up to O'Hara's steamy and provocative book Autopornography: A Memoir of Life in the Lust Lane, Rarely Pure and Never Simple: Selected Essays of Scott O'Hara shares with you more intimate stories from former porn star Scott O'Hara.

This book breaks new ground, offering school and public librarians serving children in grades K-8 a roadmap for implementing and upholding queer-inclusive programs, policies, and services.

If you lifted this book from the shelf, you're probably interested in learning more about gender.

This volume proposes "e;speaking up"e; and "e;talking back"e; as new theoretical access points for studying feminist activism in digital spaces.

'Lovely, lively and informative' JODIE MULLISH'Bursting with pride' LESLEA NEWMAN'Wonderfully colourful and vibrant' GARETH PETERCelebrate and learn about the LGBTQIA+ community with this colourful book of Pride flags!

Since queer theory originated in the early 1990s, its insights and modes of analysis have been taken up by scholars across the humanities and social sciences.

Conservative thinkers of the early Middle Ages conceived of sensual gratification as a demonic snare contrived to debase the higher faculties of humanity, and they identified pagan writing as one of the primary conduits of decadence.

From its beginnings in the 1970s and 1980s, interest in the topic of gender and migration has grown.

This book depicts the life and career of Scott Hoying, Grammy Award-winning cofounder of Pentatonix, as seen by his mother Connie.

In Authoring Autism M.

Tenth Anniversary Expanded EditionTen years on, Jasbir K.

Queering Mayberry: An Exploration of Sexuality and Gender in the Andy Griffith Show is an interdisciplinary study which reexamines The Andy Griffith Show through the frame of queer theory, offering a fresh perspective on its cultural significance in the Southern Appalachians.

First published in 1995, the book describes personal experiences of those who cross-dress and sex change, how they organise themselves socially - in both `outsider' and `respectable' communities.

The subjects of this book constitute a significant cross section of BBC science fiction television.

Originally published in 1989.

In the twentieth century, China underwent a monumental dynastic change and was transformed from an outmoded monarchy into a modern communist state.

Men in all stages of transition have come and gone from my life, and each one has been entirely different.

Originally published in 1969, Dr Charlotte Wolff was the author of three books of psychology: The Human Hand, A Psychology of Gesture and The Hand in Psychological Diagnosis.

The phrase 'feminist pedagogy' couples the contemporary and the traditional, joining current political movements with a concern for the transmission of knowledge more ancient than the Greek word for teaching.

Gay Ethics is an anthology that addresses ethical questions involving key moral issues of today--sexual morality, outing, gay and lesbian marriages, military service, anti-discrimination laws, affirmative action policies, the moral significance of sexual orientation research, and the legacy of homophobia in health care.

Dry Bones Breathe: Gay Men Creating Post-AIDS Identities and Cultures breaks new ground in offering an original and insightful interpretation of gay men's shifting experience of the AIDS epidemic.

This book provides an indispensable resource for high school and college students interested in the history and current status of gender identity formation and maintenance and how it impacts LGBTQ rights throughout the world.

From the haute couture runways of Paris and New York and editorial photo shoots for glossy fashion magazines to reality television, models have been a ubiquitous staple of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American consumer culture.

This book argues that there is an important connection between ethical resistance to British imperialism and the ethical discovery of gay rights.

From the beginning, horror has been part of the cinema landscape.

If the same-sex marriage debate tells us one thing, it's that rights do not exist in a vacuum.

A tidal wave of panic surrounded homosexuality and AIDS in the 1980s and early 1990s, the period commonly called 'The AIDS Crisis'.

This collection offers 15 critical essays on Annie Proulx's short story "e;Brokeback Mountain"e; and its controversial film adaptation by screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana and director Ang Lee.