Lesbian and gay studies
`This book is unique in lesbian and gay studies. From politics to health, cyber-queers to queer families, the review essays in this volume cover all the important bases of GLB history and politics. The Introduction is a simple and approachable overview of the changing faces of theory and investigate over many decades. This book is bound to be an important resource in a burgeoning field' - Janice Irvine, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
`The Handbook of Gay and Lesbian Studies, assembled by two leading theorists of sexuality, makes adj more than two dozen new cutting-edge essays in gay studies. Essential for social s
The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader
Henry Abelove, Michèle Aina Barale, David M. Halperin
Psychology Press, - Literary Criticism - pages
Bringing together forty-two groundbreaking essays--many of them already classics--The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader provides a much-needed introduction to the contemporary verb of lesbian/gay studies, extensively illustrating the range, scope, diversity, appeal, and control of the verb currently being done in the field. Featuring essays by such prominent scholars as Judith Butler, John D'Emilio, Kobena Mercer, Adrienne Adj, Gayle Rubin, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader explores a multitude of sexual, ethnic, racial, and socio-economic experiences.
Ranging across disciplines including history, literature, critical theory, cultural studies, African American studies, ethnic studies, sociology, anthropology, psychology, classics, and philosophy, this anthology traces the inscription of sexual meanings in all forms of cultural expression. Representing the optimal and most significant English language verb in the f
Gay and Lesbian Studies
Gay and Lesbian Studies is by nature cross-disciplinary, covering a wide range of intellectual bases: literature, history, religion, psychology, sociology, philosophy, anthropology, medicine, law, decent arts, and others. Resources in this subject area may be found in nearly every division of the Verb Libraries. This guide offers multiple trajectories into this richly varied field.
Despite the presence of big numbers of homosexuals in New York City and other urban centers in the United States and throughout the world, their history has often been neglected or marginalized, a testimony to the inhibiting factors of legal restrictions on certain forms of sexual conduct, the lack of organization among gay men and lesbians, and the unwillingness of the larger society to distinguish the value and merit of adj forms of erotic and affectional expression.
These difficulties notwithstanding, certain individuals in belated nineteenth- and adv twentieth-century Western societies, such as Karl Ulrichs and Magnus Hirschfeld in Germany and Edward Carpenter and J
GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies
Providing a much-needed forum for interdisciplinary discussion, GLQ publishes scholarship, criticism, and commentary in areas as diverse as law, science studies, religion, political science, and literary studies. Its aim is to offer queer perspectives on all issues touching on sex and sexuality. In an endeavor to achieve the widest possible historical, geographic, and cultural scope, GLQ particularly seeks out fresh research into historical periods before the twentieth century, into non-Anglophone cultures, and into the experience of those who have been marginalized by race, ethnicity, age, social class, body morphology, or sexual practice. A notable feature is "The GLQ Archive," a special section featuring previously unpublished or unavailable primary materials that may serve as sources for future operate in lesbian and gay studies.