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The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You
Arsenal Pulp PressLtd |
October 1, 2009 |
205 pages
The author's views on gender and identity.
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$32.50
The Birth of Chinese Feminism
April 2, 2013 |
328 pages
He-Yin Zhen (1886--1920) was a female theorist who played a central role in the birth of Chinese feminism. Editor of a prominent feminist-anarchist journal in the early twentieth century and exponent of a particularly incisive analysis of China and the world. Unlike her contemporaries, He-Yin Zhen... More Info
$18.99
Victory
Harper Perennial |
June 4, 2013 |
464 pages
When the modern struggle for gay rights erupted in the summer of 1969, forty-nine states outlawed sex between people of the same gender. Four decades later, in 2011, New York legalized gay marriage and the armed services stopped enforcing Don't Ask, Don't Tell. Successful social movements are... More Info
$22.95
Ain't I A Woman
August 1, 2006 |
bell hooks
South End Press; 1981
Paperback; 205 pages
9781897071199
A groundbreaking work of feminist history and theory analyzing the complex relations between various forms of oppression. Ain't I a Woman examines the impact of sexism on black women during slavery, the historic devaluation of... More Info
$22.95
Sisters of the Yam
February 15, 2005 |
208 pages
When Sisters of the Yamwas originally released in 1994 it won critical praise and solidified bell hooks' reputation as one of the leading public intellectuals of her generation. Today, the book is considered a classic in African American and feminist circles. It provides a launching point for much... More Info
$43.25
Women's Writing and Muslim Societies
January 15, 2013 |
194 pages
This is the first book to evaluate works by Western and Muslim women writing about the Muslim experience in the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and the United States. In addition, Sharif Gemie looks at how women's writing about Muslim societies has changed over the past century, from the playful... More Info
$29.95
New Queer Cinema
Duke University Press Books |
March 26, 2013 |
352 pages
DIVB. Ruby Rich designated a brand new genre, the New Queer Cinema (NQC), in her groundbreaking article in the Village Voice in 1992. This movement in film and video was intensely political and aesthetically innovative, made possible by the debut of the camcorder, and driven initially by outrage... More Info
$25.95
Orgasmology
Duke University Press Books |
December 24, 2012 |
274 pages
For all its vaunted attention to sexuality, queer theory has had relatively little to say about sex, the material and psychic practices through which erotic gratification is sought. In Orgasmology, Annamarie Jagose takes orgasm as her queer scholarly object. From simultaneous to fake orgasms, from... More Info
$25.95
Israel/Palestine and the Queer International
Duke University Press Books |
October 12, 2012 |
193 pages
DIVAt once a memoir, a call to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, and an argument for queer solidarity across borders, this book tells the story of how novelist and activist Sarah Schulman's became aware of how issues of the Israeli occupation of Palestine were tied to her own... More Info
Making space for indigenous feminism
Fernwood Books Ltd |
May 1, 2007 |
254 pages
Joyce Green, editor
Fernwood; May 2007
Paperback; 224 pages
9781552662205
The majority of scholarly and activist opinion by and about Aboriginal women claims that feminism is irrelevant for them. Yet, there is also an articulate, theoretically informed and activist constituency that identifies as... More Info
$17.99
Conflict
HarperPerennial |
April 23, 2013 |
256 pages
In this explosive new book, acclaimed French author Elisabeth Badinter attacks a most unlikely force undermining women’s equality: liberal motherhood, in thrall to all that is natural. Attachment parenting, co-sleeping and on-demand breastfeeding—these hallmarks of contemporary motherhood have... More Info
$18.00
Of Woman Born
W. W. Norton |
June 20, 1995 |
322 pages
Adrienne Rich's influential and landmark investigation concerns both the experience and the institution of motherhood.
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$20.95
A Question of Choice
Feminist Press |
January 15, 2013 |
352 pages
The incredible story of how a twenty-seven-year-old lawyer won Roe v. Wade, and what it means forty years later.
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$39.95
Feminist Mothering
SUNY Press |
June 20, 2013 |
287 pages
"Feminist Mothering goes beyond critiques of patriarchal motherhood to locate and investigate feminist maternal practices as sites for women's empowerment and social change. The contributors see "feminist mothering" as practices of mothering that seek to challenge and change the norms of... More Info
$35.95
Gender and Social Protection in the Developing World
Zed Books |
February 26, 2013 |
256 pages
This book introduces a much-needed gender lens to debates around social protection. Millions of dollars are invested annually in social protection policies and programs addressing poverty and vulnerability in the developing world. Despite this, little attention has been paid to social protection's... More Info
Rape Is Rape
April 1, 2013 |
256 pages
A call to action to protect the human rights of women and girls, this exposé reveals how interest groups deny the seriousness of rape to further their political agendas. Through firsthand interviews with victims; medical and judicial records; social media; and statistics from police, the FBI, and... More Info
$8.95
New Girl Law
Microcosm Pub |
March 30, 2013 |
96 pages
The engrossing report on young Cambodian women's struggles for human rights and media justice continues in this follow-up to the critically acclaimed Cambodian Grrrl. This account explains how, in an attempt to help long-suffering Cambodian women in the post–Khmer Rouge regime archive their own... More Info
The Feminist Porn Book
Feminist Press |
February 19, 2013 |
432 pages
The Feminist Porn Book celebrates the power of desire, turning the spotlight on an industry where feminism is thriving.
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$16.50
Girl Land
Reagan Arthur / Back Bay Books |
February 12, 2013 |
240 pages
The acclaimed and provocative book about what girls have lost and gained in the 21st century: "A compelling, convincing case for more parental involvement in girls' lives" (Kirkus Reviews). Caitlin Flanagan's essays have sparked national debate. Here she turns her attention to girls, and how the... More Info
$18.95
Lucy Parsons
Haymarket Books |
December 11, 2012 |
282 pages
The life and times of Lucy Parsons, early American radical and labor organizer, told definitively here.
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$18.00
Beyond Identity Politics
South End Pr |
June 20, 1996 |
187 pages
Describes how community groups throughout the United States have organized to change the system, not just join it
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$29.00
Men in Love
June 20, 1999 |
214 pages
Arguing that the personally and culturally complex concepts of love and emotional intimacy offer a more useful perspective for understanding male-male relations of the eighteenth century than scholarship which focuses exclusively on sexual behavior, Haggerty examines several eighteenth -century... More Info
$28.00
Like Bread on the Seder Plate
April 1, 1998 |
224 pages
Few aspects of American military history have been as vigorously debated as Harry Truman's decision to use atomic bombs against Japan. In this carefully crafted volume, Michael Kort describes the wartime circumstances and thinking that form the context for the decision to use these weapons, surveys... More Info
$22.50
Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800
University of Chicago Press |
March 2, 2009 |
224 pages
Attitudes toward homosexuality in the pre-modern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic—visible and tolerated on one hand, prohibited by Islam on the other. Khaled El-Rouayheb argues that this apparent paradox is based on the anachronistic assumption that homosexuality is a... More Info
$25.00
Queering the Underworld
University of Chicago Press |
May 15, 2009 |
272 pages
At the start of the twentieth century, tales of “how the other half lives” experienced a surge in popularity. People looking to go slumming without leaving home turned to these narratives for spectacular revelations of the underworld and sordid details about the deviants who populated it. In... More Info
$24.95
Before the Closet
University of Chicago Press |
May 1, 2000 |
380 pages
Allen J. Frantzen challenges the long accepted view that the early Middle Ages tolerated and even fostered same-sex relations and that intolerance of homosexuality developed only late in the medieval period. Frantzen shows that in early medieval Europe, the Church did not tolerate same-sex acts, in... More Info
$15.95
Transparent
Harvest Books |
January 14, 2008 |
323 pages
A journalist chronicles her volunteer work with four transgender high-school students in Los Angeles, describing the difficulties they face in reconciling their perceptions of themselves with the way that others view them.
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$19.95
Queersexlife
Arsenal Pulp Pr Ltd |
May 1, 2008 |
255 pages
Brilliant and illuminating essays on the culture of sex within queer communities.
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$20.95
Gay Power
Da Capo Press |
May 17, 2007 |
390 pages
The definitive history of how the gay rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s sparked an American revolution that transformed a nation.
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$23.95
In a Queer Country
Arsenal Pulp PressLtd |
June 20, 2013 |
313 pages
Inviting readers to imagine simultaneously explore new topographies of sexuality and the state, this collection of essays offers a broad reconceptualisation of cultural issues ranging from law, history, fiction and film to national parks, urban neighbourhoods and fashion. Written with wit, iron and... More Info
$31.95
The Gay Archipelago
June 20, 2013 |
282 pages
The Gay Archipelago is the first book-length exploration of the lives of gay men in Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation and home to more Muslims than any other country. Based on a range of field methods, it explores how Indonesian gay and lesbian identities are shaped by nationalism... More Info
The Queer Question
South End Pr |
June 20, 1997 |
257 pages
In The Queer Question: Essays on Desire and Democracy, Scott Tucker issues a fierce clarion call to radicals and queers to be true to the democratic potential of the United States. In this collection of essays, Tucker targets homophobia and anti-sex sentiment within the traditional Left, racism and... More Info
$31.95
Cartographies of Desire
Univ of California Press |
March 5, 2007 |
399 pages
"A remarkable and sorely needed synthesis of the best of traditional historiographical documentation and critically astute analysis and contextualization.
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$25.00
Imagining Gay Paradise
January 12, 2012 |
316 pages
This look at gay paradises in Southeast Asia and the men who created them considers the obstacles gay men have faced in securing a voice as citizens, and how they have used images of paradise in Bali, Bangkok and Singapore to create a sense of refuge, construct homes for themselves, and dissent... More Info
$19.95
Smash the church, smash the state!
City Lights Publishers |
June 1, 2009 |
303 pages
was a rallying cry for many in those days, and the lesbians, gay men and transgenders whose stories are collected here were frequently involved in battling oppression on many fronts. For the first time together in one volue, these writers share unique perspectives, occasional regrets and changes of... More Info
$24.00
Stonewall
Plume Books |
May 1, 1994 |
330 pages
Since 1969, the word Stonewall has been synonymous with gay resistance to oppression. Yet remarkably, the full story of the Stonewall riots has never been told. Now historian Duberman profiles six early activists, whose lives intersected during the turbulent event that was to become the defining... More Info
$25.00
Queer Bangkok
May 1, 2011 |
308 pages
The first years of the 21st century have marked a transition moment for all of Thailand's LGBT cultures. This book analyses the roles of the market and media in these transformations, and considers the ambiguous consequences that the growing commodification of queer lives have had for the LGBT... More Info
$25.00
Writing the Love of Boys
U of Minnesota Press |
February 28, 2011 |
302 pages
A pioneering look at same-sex desire in Japanese modernist writing.
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$21.50
Queer America
New Pr |
March 15, 2011 |
304 pages
Placing GLBT people at the center of the history of the twentieth century, Vicki L. Eaklor’s Queer America: A People’s GLBT History of the United States is a major new effort to popularize a long-overlooked chapter in the American experience.
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$49.50
Queering India
Psychology Press |
June 20, 2013 |
252 pages
Queering India is the first book to provide an understanding of same-sex love and eroticism in Indian culture and society. The essays focus on pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial gay and lesbian life in India to provide a comprehensive look at a much neglected topic. The topics are... More Info
$50.00
Conditional Spaces
December 5, 2011 |
194 pages
Dense living conditions in Hong Kong do not provide much privacy for lesbians and other sexual minorities living with their families. As a result, lesbians often locate alternative spaces to develop support networks with other women. Others reject the notion of lesbian spaces and instead assert... More Info
Sapphistries
January 28, 2011 |
303 pages
Writer, artist, Manhattan gallery owner, and co-editor of theLittle Review, Jane Heap was one of the most dynamic figures of the international avant garde, creating a life that defined the "modernist experience" as a syncretic one. Deliberately seeking a low profile throughout her life, Heap has... More Info
$34.95
The Canadian War on Queers
University of British Columbia Press |
July 1, 2010 |
554 pages
From the 1950s to the late 1990s, agents of the state spied on, interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in Canada, employing social ideologies and other practices to construct their targets as threats to society and enemies of the state. Based on official security documents and interviews with... More Info
$24.95
Defiant Desire
Psychology Press |
June 20, 1995 |
376 pages
Defiant Desire records the lives of lesbian and gay South Africans of all races as they have lived in the face of censure, denial and oppression. The history of gay identity in South Africa is here in its past and present aspects: from a drag salon in Woodstock to a gay "shebeen" in kwaThema; from... More Info
$25.00
Queers in History
BenBella Books |
September 1, 2009 |
587 pages
"Includes biographies of over 900 prominent people, from 2450 BC to today"--Cover.
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What Becomes You
Bison Books |
April 1, 2008 |
299 pages
“Being a man, like being a woman, is something you have to learn,” Aaron Raz Link remarks. Few would know this better than the coauthor of What Becomes You, who began life as a girl named Sarah and twenty-nine years later began life anew as a gay man. As he transforms from female to male and... More Info
Sexuality In Medieval Europe
Psychology Press |
June 20, 2013 |
200 pages
Combining research with original interpretations, and quoting sources from medieval Christian Europe, Jewish medieval culture and the Islamic world, this highly readable study provides an overview of medieval culture and how it developed sexual identities that were quite different from the... More Info
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