Regarding Sedgwick : Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory
ISBN: 9780415928182 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is one of the most important figures in the history of modern gender studies, primarily for the theoretical grounding she has provided for the field of queer theory. It's often said that Sedgwick invented Queer Theory. This book, which features an interview with Sedgwick, is a collection of new essays by established scholars, each of whom knows Sedgwick well.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is one of the most important figures in the history of modern gender studies, primarily for the theoretical grounding she has pr...
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698,90 zł |
Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society
ISBN: 9780415929493 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Queering India provides 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 the area. The topics are wide-ranging, considering film, literature, popular culture, historical and religious texts, law and other aspects of life in India. All the essays are original to the collection.
Queering India provides an understanding of same-sex love and eroticism in Indian culture and society. The essays focus on pre-colonial, colonial, and...
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854,21 zł |
Queering India: Same-Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian Culture and Society
ISBN: 9780415929509 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Queering India provides 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 the area. The topics are wide-ranging, considering film, literature, popular culture, historical and religious texts, law and other aspects of life in India. All the essays are original to the collection.
Queering India provides an understanding of same-sex love and eroticism in Indian culture and society. The essays focus on pre-colonial, colonial, and...
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227,73 zł |
Equality Practice: Civil Unions and the Future of Gay Rights
ISBN: 9780415930734 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. William Eskridge, a Yale law professor chronicles the Vermont law which legalised civil unions - distinct from marriage - for same sex couples.
William Eskridge, a Yale law professor chronicles the Vermont law which legalised civil unions - distinct from marriage - for same sex couples.
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227,73 zł |
Queer Jews
ISBN: 9780415931663 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume describes how queer Jews are changing Jewish American culture, creating communities and making room for themselves, as openly, unapologetically queer and Jewish. Combining political analysis and personal memoir, these essays explore the various ways queer Jews are creating new forms of Jewish communities and institutions, and demanding that traditional Jewish communities become more inclusive. The book is an important addition to the study of gay Jewish life. Nothing has come along to take the place of Twice Blessed, published in 1986, and the landscape has changed substantially...
This volume describes how queer Jews are changing Jewish American culture, creating communities and making room for themselves, as openly, unapologeti...
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776,56 zł |
Queer Jews
ISBN: 9780415931670 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Queer Jews describes how queer Jews are changing Jewish American culture, creating communities and making room for themselves, as openly, unapologetically queer and Jewish. Combining political analysis and personal memoir, these essays explore the various ways queer Jews are creating new forms of Jewish communities and institutions, and demanding that Jewish communities become more inclusive.
Queer Jews describes how queer Jews are changing Jewish American culture, creating communities and making room for themselves, as openly, una...
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207,03 zł |
Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life
ISBN: 9780415932066 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Steven Seidman offers the first sustained account of the post-closeted gay world. Since the Stonewall rebellions, lesbian and gay life has been understood in terms of 'being in' or 'coming out' of the closet. Seidman argues that a new configuration of gay life is taking shape, and that the closet is disappearing.
Steven Seidman offers the first sustained account of the post-closeted gay world. Since the Stonewall rebellions, lesbian and gay life has been unders...
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776,56 zł |
Beyond the Closet : The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life
ISBN: 9780415932073 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text offers an account of the post-closeted gay world. Steven Seidman argues that a new configuration of gay life is taking shape, and that the closet is disappearing.
This text offers an account of the post-closeted gay world. Steven Seidman argues that a new configuration of gay life is taking shape, and that the c...
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207,03 zł |
Negotiating the Self: Identity, Sexuality, and Emotion in Learning to Teach
ISBN: 9780415932547 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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698,90 zł |
Queer Man on Campus: A History of Non-Heterosexual College Men, 1945-2000
ISBN: 9780415933377 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through intensive interviews and historical research, this book reveals the inadequacy of a unified gay identity in studying the lives of queer college men. Instead, as Patrick Dilley shows, seven distinct types of identities are discernible in the lives of non-heterosexual college males between World War II and the close of the millennium. Dilley traces the development of these identities, illuminating the historical and contextual factors that affect their formation. By situating these types of non-heterosexuality as variable and fluid, Dilley offers a new perspective on queer collegiate...
Through intensive interviews and historical research, this book reveals the inadequacy of a unified gay identity in studying the lives of queer colleg...
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191,50 zł |
Entertaining Lesbians: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Self-Invention
ISBN: 9780415944793 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charting the rise of lesbian celebrity, Martha Gever asks whether such exposure is good for lesbians or hurts their cause. Stars from Ellen DeGeneres to Melissa Etheridge to Chastity Bono send a message that being out is now acceptable, but have they created new stereotypes along the way? Entertaining Lesbians takes a look at the peril and promise of being not just out of the closet, but out in the public eye.
Charting the rise of lesbian celebrity, Martha Gever asks whether such exposure is good for lesbians or hurts their cause. Stars from Ellen DeGeneres ...
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802,44 zł |
Entertaining Lesbians: Celebrity, Sexuality, and Self-Invention
ISBN: 9780415944809 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Before the rise of celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres and k.d. lang, lesbians were rarely in the limelight and the few that were often did not fare well. Times have changed and today's famous lesbians are popular icons. Entertaining Lesbians charts the rise of lesbians in the public eye, proposing that celebrity has never been a simple matter of opening closet doors, portraying "positive images," or becoming "role models." Gever traces the history of lesbians in popular culture during the twentieth century, from Radclyffe Hall and Greta Garbo to Martina Navratilova and Rosie O'Donnell,...
Before the rise of celebrities like Ellen DeGeneres and k.d. lang, lesbians were rarely in the limelight and the few that were often did not fare well...
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227,73 zł |
Queer Political Performance and Protest: Play, Pleasure and Social Movement
ISBN: 9780415960960 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the birth of the Gay Liberation through the rise of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1987, the global justice movement in 1994, the largest day of antiwar protest in world history in February 2003, the Republican National Convention protests in August 2004, and the massive immigrant rights rallies in the spring of 2006, the streets of cities around the world have been filled with a new theatrical model of protest. Elements of fun, creativity, pleasure, and play are cornerstones of this new approach toward protest and community building. No movement has had a larger... From the birth of the Gay Liberation through the rise of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1987, the global justice movement in 1994,... |
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673,02 zł |
The Struggle Over Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Rights: Facing Off in Cincinnati
ISBN: 9780415972338 / Angielski / Twarda / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In November 1993 voters in Cincinnati, Ohio passed Issue 3, an amendment to the City Charter eliminating gay, lesbian and bisexual person's legal protection against discrimination and prohibiting their recognition as a group or class. This Christian right initiative emerged largely in response to the inclusion of 'sexual orientation' in the City's newly enacted Human Rights Ordinance just one year earlier. The gay, lesbian and bisexual movement mobilized in efforts to thwart the Issue 3 initiative. Most research on social movements has focused on solitary movements engaged with the state and...
In November 1993 voters in Cincinnati, Ohio passed Issue 3, an amendment to the City Charter eliminating gay, lesbian and bisexual person's legal prot...
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186,32 zł |
Gay Hegemony/ Latino Homosexualites
ISBN: 9780415976510 / Angielski / Twarda / 115 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Gay Hegemony/ Latino Homosexualities "is an interdisciplinary project that weaves ethnographic interviewing with the analysis of texts and material culture to study the intersection of gayness with Latinidad. Unlike other academic treatments of the subject matter, it grounds its argument in an ethnoracial context and takes as point of departure that what needs to be studied explained is gayness not Latinidad. The book argues that gayness is a social formation structured by the racial distinction between blackness and whiteness in the United States and that, as such, the formation gayness is...
"Gay Hegemony/ Latino Homosexualities "is an interdisciplinary project that weaves ethnographic interviewing with the analysis of texts and material c...
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776,56 zł |
The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex: A Medical Handbook for Men
ISBN: 9780440508465 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Finally--the book for every gay man's bedside table. At last Answers to the questions you're too embarrassed to ask--but always wanted to know Why does it hurt down there? Is it really safe to do that? What does it mean when something looks like this--and how do I make it go away? Chances are you never learned anything about gay intimacy from your parents, your school, or your family physician. Here, at last, is reliable, comprehensive information on a wide spectrum of gay medical concerns, written by an eminent surgeon and recognized authority on gay health issues. With...
Finally--the book for every gay man's bedside table. At last Answers to the questions you're too embarrassed to ask--but always wanted to know <...
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83,59 zł |
Why Marriage?: The History Shaping Today's Debate Over Gay Equality
ISBN: 9780465009589 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Angry debate over gay marriage has divided the nation as no other issue since the Vietnam War. Why has marriage suddenly emerged as the most explosive issue in the gay struggle for equality? At times it seems to have come out of nowhere-but in fact it has a history. George Chauncey offers an electrifying analysis of the history of the shifting attitudes of heterosexual Americans toward gay people, from the dramatic growth in acceptance to the many campaigns against gay rights that form the background to today's demand for a constitutional amendment. Chauncey illuminates what's at stake...
Angry debate over gay marriage has divided the nation as no other issue since the Vietnam War. Why has marriage suddenly emerged as the most explosive...
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129,42 zł |
Gay L. A.: A History of Sexual Outlaws, Power Politics, and Lipstick Lesbians
ISBN: 9780465022885 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The exhortation to "Go West " has always had a strong hold on the American imagination. But for the gays, lesbians, and transgendered people who have moved to L.A. over the past two centuries, the City of Angels has offered a special home--which, in turn, gave rise to one of the most influential gay cultures in the world. Drawing upon untouched archives of documents and photographs and over 200 new interviews, Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons chart L.A.'s unique gay history, from the first missionary encounters with Native American cross-gendered "two spirits" to cross-dressing frontier...
The exhortation to "Go West " has always had a strong hold on the American imagination. But for the gays, lesbians, and transgendered people who have ...
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258,84 zł |
The Other Side of the Closet: The Coming-Out Crisis for Straight Spouses and Families
ISBN: 9780471021520 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Candid, compassionate, authoritative--a rich source of insights, information, and practical guidance. ""The first major work on the topic."" --Gay Community News ""A much needed comprehensive study of what happens to husbands, wives, and children during the coming-out crisis. --The Reverend Jane E. Vennard, founder Task Force for Spouses of Gays and Lesbians ""The new enlarged edition adds important factors, especially children's reactions to a parent's coming out. Well-researched and insightful."" --Fritz Klein, M.D., author of The Bisexual Option ""Anybody practicing in this area would be...
Candid, compassionate, authoritative--a rich source of insights, information, and practical guidance. ""The first major work on the topic."" --Gay Com...
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92,17 zł |
Commitment and Healing: Gay Men and the Need for Romantic Love
ISBN: 9780471740490 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What's love got to do with it? Everything, according to Richard Isay's informed and illuminating look at the role of romance in modern gay life. I highly recommend this book for people of any generation and partnership status.
--Dean H. Hamer, Ph.D., author of The Science of Desire and The God Gene ""Richard Isay offers something far better than simple bromides and false hope. In this book, he challenges us with a provocative, illuminating, and ultimately hopeful look at ourselves and explains how those of us who yearn to love and be loved (and who doesn't?) can best find happiness and... What's love got to do with it? Everything, according to Richard Isay's informed and illuminating look at the role of romance in modern gay life. I hig...
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131,76 zł |