Compares today's same-sex marriage movement to the experiences of black people in the mid-nineteenth century. The staggering string of victories by the gay rights movement's campaign for marriage equality raises questions not only about how gay people have been able to successfully deploy marriage to elevate their social and legal reputation, ......
Compares today's same-sex marriage movement to the experiences of black people in the mid-nineteenth century. The staggering string of victories by the gay rights movement's campaign for marriage equality raises questions not only about how gay people have been able to successfully deploy marriage to elevate their social and legal reputation, ......
A Bishop's Journey Through Questions of Homosexuality
In this thoughtful and timely book, Bishop Alexander explores his journey through the theological, scriptural, and pastoral aspects of the questions surrounding homosexuality and the Christian faith.
Presents a study of the experiences of Mexican men who have same sex with men and who have migrated to the United States. The author situates his analysis within the history of Mexican immigration and offers a broad understanding of diverse migratory experiences ranging from recent gay asylum seekers to an assessment of gay tourism in Mexico.
Presents a study of the experiences of Mexican men who have same sex with men and who have migrated to the United States. The author situates his analysis within the history of Mexican immigration and offers a broad understanding of diverse migratory experiences ranging from recent gay asylum seekers to an assessment of gay tourism in Mexico.
Male-to-Male Sexual Behavior Outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagi
Recent years have seen enormous attention devoted to the history of sexuality in the Western world. But how has the West conceived of non-western societies been influenced by these other traditions? The Geography of Perversion and Desire is the first historical study to demonstrate convincingly that the representation cultural otherness, as found ......
Futurity, Empathy, and the Queer Ecological Imagination
In Strange Natures, Nicole Seymour investigates the ways in which contemporary queer fictions offer insight on environmental issues through their performance of a specifically queer understanding of nature, the nonhuman, and environmental degradation. By drawing upon queer theory and ecocriticism, Seymour examines how contemporary queer fictions ......
English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean, Second Edition
Pirates are among the most heavily romanticized and fabled characters in history. This title investigates the social and sexual world of these sea rovers, a tightly bound brotherhood of men engaged in almost constant warfare.
In everyday language, masochism is usually understood as the desire to abdicate control in exchange for sensation - pleasure, pain, or a combination thereof. This book uses masochism as a lens to examine how power structures race, gender, and embodiment in different contexts.
In everyday language, masochism is usually understood as the desire to abdicate control in exchange for sensation - pleasure, pain, or a combination thereof. This book uses masochism as a lens to examine how power structures race, gender, and embodiment in different contexts.
The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate is an enjoyable, humorous, encouraging, easy to understand guidebook for being an ally to the LGBTQ+ communities.
From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex with other women. This title tells their stories, capturing the multitude of ways that diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and place.
Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 Rural queer experience is often hidden or ignored, and presumed to be alienating, lacking, and incomplete without connections to a gay culture that exists in an urban elsewhere. Queering the Countryside offers the first comprehensive look at queer desires found in rural America from a genuinely ......
Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2016 Rural queer experience is often hidden or ignored, and presumed to be alienating, lacking, and incomplete without connections to a gay culture that exists in an urban elsewhere. Queering the Countryside offers the first comprehensive look at queer desires found in rural America from a genuinely ......
Communication and the Construction of Homosexuality
This work argues that the debate over homosexuality is fundamentally an issue of communication. Chapters address such subjects as: gay political language; homosexuality and AIDs on prime-time television; the politics of male homosexuality in young adult fiction; and coming-out strategies.
