This is the 10th anniversary edition of Cures, Martin Duberman's bestselling account of his attempts to cure himself of his homosexuality through therapy, medical treatments and faith healers. Duberman tells of the double life he led as a young professor at Princeton, passing as straight by day and going into the gay clubs of Trenton and New York by night, which continued through the 1950s and into the 1970s, until he came out as a gay man around the time of Stonewall. For the new edition, Duberman has written a new preface chapter and an afterword, bringing his life (and, more broadly, the...
This is the 10th anniversary edition of Cures, Martin Duberman's bestselling account of his attempts to cure himself of his homosexuality through ther...
This compedious, cutting-edge volume offers a broad array of the most provocative gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender scholarship produced by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) over the first decade (1986-1996) of its existence at the CUNY Graduate School.
CLAGS has had a profound and legitimizing influence on the establishment of gay and lesbian studies as a discipline. Thousands have attended its events, featuring hundreds of scholars, activists, and cultural workers; many thousands more have lamented how they would have liked to have been there. With this book,...
This compedious, cutting-edge volume offers a broad array of the most provocative gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender scholarship produced by t...
Queer Representations celebrates the eclectic, diverse nature of gay and lesbian culture and its production.
The volume begins by asking how we can interpret an image--is the image homosexual and if so, how can we understand it? Closely connected to its interpretation is how we visualize homosexuality, or, in Allen Ellenzweig's term, how we picture the homoerotic, the organizing principle of a section devoted to American cinema and performance in general. The crucial role of biography and autobiography is the central preoccupation of the next section, with essays on Radclyffe Hall,...
Queer Representations celebrates the eclectic, diverse nature of gay and lesbian culture and its production.
With faculty and alumni that included John Cage, Robert Creeley, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Charles Olson, Josef and Anni Albers, Paul Goodman, and Robert Rauschenberg, Black Mountain College ranked among the most important artistic and intellectual communities of the twentieth century. In his groundbreaking history, Martin Duberman uses interviews, anecdotes, and research to depict the relationships that made Black Mountain College what it was. "Black Mountain "documents the college s twenty-three-year tenure, from its most brilliant moments of self-reinvention to its lowest...
With faculty and alumni that included John Cage, Robert Creeley, Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, Charles Olson, Josef and Anni Albers, Paul G...
This richly revealing anthology brings together for the first time the vital new scholarly studies now lifting the veil from the gay and lesbian past. Such notable researchers as John Boswell, Shari Benstock, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Jeffrey Weeks and John D'Emilio illuminate gay and lesbian life as it evolved in places as diverse as the Athens of Plato, Renaissance Italy, Victorian London, jazz Age Harlem, Revolutionary Russia, Nazi Germany, Castro's Cuba, post-World War II San Francisco--and peoples as varied as South African black miners,...
Winner of two Lambda Rising Awards
This richly revealing anthology brings together for the first time the vital new scholarly studies no...
When Israel declared its independence in 1948, Harry Truman issued a memo recognizing the Israeli government within eleven minutes. Today, the U.S. and Israel continue on as partners in an at times controversial alliance--an alliance, many argue, that is powerfully influenced by the Christian Right. In The Fervent Embrace, Caitlin Carenen chronicles the American Christian relationship with Israel, tracing first mainline Protestant and then evangelical support for Zionism.
In the aftermath of the Holocaust, American liberal Protestants argued that America had a moral...
When Israel declared its independence in 1948, Harry Truman issued a memo recognizing the Israeli government within eleven minutes. Today, the U.S....
Collected for the first time are more than forty years of Doug Ireland's outspoken writing, covering hot-button topics from gay rights to AIDS to the war in Iraq and presidential politics. Edited and introduced by Martin Duberman, The Emperor Has No Clothes is essential reading for progressives everywhere. "Doug served as the moral lodestar of the embattled left." -John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil "I've never met anyone who had a greater understanding of the American left than Doug and there's certainly no one . . . who did more to inspire grassroots activism,...
Collected for the first time are more than forty years of Doug Ireland's outspoken writing, covering hot-button topics from gay rights to AIDS to the ...
In December 1995, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For countless people, the drug offered a reprieve from what had been a death sentence; for others, it was too late. In the United States alone, more than 318,000 people had already died from AIDS-related complicationsamong them the singer Michael Callen and the poet Essex Hemphill. Relevant and heartbreaking (Bay Area Reporter), incisive, passionate, and poetic (New York Journal of Books), and powerful (Kirkus Reviews), Hold...
In December 1995, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the release of protease inhibitors, the first effective treatment for AIDS. For count...
This compedious, cutting-edge volume offers a broad array of the most provocative gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender scholarship produced by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) over the first decade (1986-1996) of its existence at the CUNY Graduate School.
CLAGS has had a profound and legitimizing influence on the establishment of gay and lesbian studies as a discipline. Thousands have attended its events, featuring hundreds of scholars, activists, and cultural workers; many thousands more have lamented how they would have liked to have been there. With this book,...
This compedious, cutting-edge volume offers a broad array of the most provocative gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender scholarship produced by t...
The Rest of It is the untold and revealing story of how Martin Duberman-a major historian and a founding figure in the history of gay and lesbian studies-managed to survive and be productive during a difficult twelve year period in which he was beset by drug addiction, health problems, and personal loss.
The Rest of It is the untold and revealing story of how Martin Duberman-a major historian and a founding figure in the history of gay and lesbian stud...
