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A Queer Capital: A History of Gay Life in Washington D.C.
ISBN: 9780415921725 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rooted in extensive archival research and personal interviews, A Queer Capital is the first history of LGBT life in the nation's capital. Revealing a vibrant past that dates back more than 125 years, the book explores how lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals established spaces of their own before and after World War II, survived some of the harshest anti-gay campaigns in the U.S., and organized to demand equal treatment. Telling the stories of black and white gay communities and individuals, Genny Beemyn shows how race, gender, and class shaped the construction of gay social worlds in a racially...
Rooted in extensive archival research and personal interviews, A Queer Capital is the first history of LGBT life in the nation's capital. Revealing a ...
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804,84 |
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And Baby Makes More: Known Donors, Queer Parents, and Our Unexpected Families
ISBN: 9781897178836 / Angielski / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. And Baby Makes More: Known Donors, Queer Parents, and Our Unexpected Families explores the role of the "known donor" in the queer family structure: what happens when would-be dyke moms or gay dads ask a friend or acquaintance to donate sperm or an egg, or to act as a surrogate? A quirky, funny, and occasionally heartbreaking collection of personal essays, this book offers an intimate look at the relative risks and unexpected rewards of queer, do-it-yourself baby-making, and the ways in which families are re-made in the process. With no clear models to follow, these new versions of the queer...
And Baby Makes More: Known Donors, Queer Parents, and Our Unexpected Families explores the role of the "known donor" in the queer family structure: wh...
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68,09 |
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The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy
ISBN: 9780822347156 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Feeling of Kinship, David L. Eng investigates the emergence of queer liberalism the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the United States, economically through an increasingly visible and mass-mediated queer consumer lifestyle, and politically through the legal protection of rights to privacy and intimacy. Eng argues that in our colorblind age the emergence of queer liberalism is a particular incarnation of liberal freedom and progress, one constituted by both the racialization of intimacy and the forgetting of race. Through a startling reading of Lawrence v....
In The Feeling of Kinship, David L. Eng investigates the emergence of queer liberalism the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the Unit...
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458,51 |
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The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy
ISBN: 9780822347323 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Feeling of Kinship, David L. Eng investigates the emergence of "queer liberalism"--the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the United States, economically through an increasingly visible and mass-mediated queer consumer lifestyle, and politically through the legal protection of rights to privacy and intimacy. Eng argues that in our "colorblind" age the emergence of queer liberalism is a particular incarnation of liberal freedom and progress, one constituted by both the racialization of intimacy and the forgetting of race. Through a startling reading of Lawrence v....
In The Feeling of Kinship, David L. Eng investigates the emergence of "queer liberalism"--the empowerment of certain gays and lesbians in the U...
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107,26 |
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Coming Out, Coming Home: Helping Families Adjust to a Gay or Lesbian Child
ISBN: 9780231143820 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The discovery that a child is lesbian or gay can send shockwaves through a family. A mother will question how she's raised her son; a father will worry that his daughter will experience discrimination. From the child's perspective, gay and lesbian youth fear their families will reject them and that they will lose financial and emotional support. All in all, learning a child is gay challenges long-held views about sexuality and relationships, and the resulting uncertainty can produce feelings of anger, resentment, and concern. Through a qualitative, multicultural study of sixty-five gay...
The discovery that a child is lesbian or gay can send shockwaves through a family. A mother will question how she's raised her son; a father will worr...
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566,59 |
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Coming Out through Fire
ISBN: 9781608991334 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ellen DeGeneres and other public figures have broadened mainstream understanding and acceptance of homosexuality. But in churches across the United States, lesbians and gays are condemned to hell or are considered sinners beyond repair. They encounter people who are homophobic, and these recurring rejections cause serious psychological and spiritual side effects.Coming Out through Fire takes an intimate look at the trauma of being lesbian, gay, or bisexual in a heterosexual world. Discussing the trials that these persons endure every day, Leanne Tigert examines the church, the effects of HIV...
Ellen DeGeneres and other public figures have broadened mainstream understanding and acceptance of homosexuality. But in churches across the United St...
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83,85 |
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The Ashgate Research Companion to Queer Theory
ISBN: 9780754671350 / Angielski / Twarda / 558 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This interdisciplinary volume of thirty original essays engages with four key concerns of queer theoretical work a identity, discourse, normativity and relationality. A combination of distinguished and emerging scholars from a wide range of international locations, put the terms a queera and a theorya under interrogation in and effort to map the relations and disjunctions between them. These contributors are especially attendant to the many theoretical discourses intersecting with queer theory a feminist theory, LGBT studies, postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, disability studies, Marxism,...
This interdisciplinary volume of thirty original essays engages with four key concerns of queer theoretical work a identity, discourse, normativity an...
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780,44 |
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Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism
ISBN: 9780814737187 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The metropolis has been the near exclusive focus of queer scholars and queer cultures in America. Asking us to look beyond the cities on the coasts, Scott Herring draws a new map, tracking how rural queers have responded to this myopic mindset. Interweaving a wide range of disciplines--art, media, literature, performance, and fashion studies--he develops an extended critique of how metronormativity saturates LGBTQ politics, artwork, and criticism. To counter this ideal, he offers a vibrant theory of queer anti-urbanism that refuses to dismiss the rural as a cultural... The metropolis has been the near exclusive focus of queer scholars and queer cultures in America. Asking us to look beyond the cities on the coasts... |
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346,32 |
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Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism
ISBN: 9780814737194 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The metropolis has been the near exclusive focus of queer scholars and queer cultures in America. Asking us to look beyond the cities on the coasts, Scott Herring draws a new map, tracking how rural queers have responded to this myopic mindset. Interweaving a wide range of disciplines--art, media, literature, performance, and fashion studies--he develops an extended critique of how metronormativity saturates LGBTQ politics, artwork, and criticism. To counter this ideal, he offers a vibrant theory of queer anti-urbanism that refuses to dismiss the rural as a cultural... The metropolis has been the near exclusive focus of queer scholars and queer cultures in America. Asking us to look beyond the cities on the coasts... |
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136,53 |
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Same-Sex Partners: The Social Demography of Sexual Orientation
ISBN: 9780791476109 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Addressing the lack of understanding regarding the lives of same-sex couples, this book examines the sociodemographic characteristics of partnered gay men and lesbians. The authors draw on U.S. census data to present quantitative analyses of topics pertaining to gay men and lesbians that have previously been relatively unexamined or assessed mainly through qualitative studies. They explore where gay men and lesbians live, why they choose those residences, income inequality, occupations, dimensions of family attachments, relationship commitments, and family structures. The census data allows...
Addressing the lack of understanding regarding the lives of same-sex couples, this book examines the sociodemographic characteristics of partnered gay...
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177,18 |
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Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past
ISBN: 9780452010673 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of two Lambda Rising Awards
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... |
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163,89 |
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Travels in a Gay Nation: Portraits of LGBTQ Americans
ISBN: 9780299236847 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For two years, Philip Gambone traveled the length and breadth of the United States, talking candidly with LGBTQ people about their lives. In addition to interviews from David Sedaris, George Takei, Barney Frank, and Tammy Baldwin, Travels in a Gay Nation brings us lesser-known voices a retired Naval officer, a transgender scholar and drag king, a Princeton philosopher, two opera sopranos who happen to be lovers, an indie rock musician, the founder of a gay frat house, and a pair of Vermont garden designers.
In this age when contemporary gay America is still coming under attack,... For two years, Philip Gambone traveled the length and breadth of the United States, talking candidly with LGBTQ people about their lives. In addition ...
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102,39 |
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Same-Sex Marriage in the Americas : Policy Innovation for Same-Sex Relationships
ISBN: 9780739128664 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the proliferation of policy making concerning the recognition and protection of same-sex relationships in the countries of North and South America, adding to the knowledge of developments in the United States and Canada, but, mostly notable, exploring more recent developments in Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. While much work has been done on developments in Europe and upper North America, this book attempts to broaden the understanding of relationship equality policy proliferation around the world and to add new insights regarding the policies of...
This book examines the proliferation of policy making concerning the recognition and protection of same-sex relationships in the countries of North an...
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219,50 |
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Radical Records: Thirty Years of Lesbian and Gay History, 1957-1987
ISBN: 9780415591133 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between the Wolfenden Report of 1957 & the homophobic Section 28 of 1987 was a period of unprecedented optimism & political activism among lesbians & gay men in Britain. 'Radical Records' explores the diverse & sometimes conflicting attempts of lesbian & gay people to build a new world for themselves & those they loved.
Between the Wolfenden Report of 1957 & the homophobic Section 28 of 1987 was a period of unprecedented optimism & political activism among lesbians & ...
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731,67 |
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Silent Lives: How High a Price?: For Personal Reflections and Group Discussions about Sexual Orientation
ISBN: 9780761829683 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a valuable resource that combines autobiographical sources, personal interviews, and questions for reflection to explore issues relevant to everyone's sexual orientation and gender status, be they heterosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, or intersexual. Its readily accessible format assists individuals, study groups, civic groups, spiritual groups, or congregations create an open forum for the discussion of sexuality. It is helpful for personal journaling and sharing with relatives and friends, and is also very useful as a college text, therapy supplement, and as a...
This book is a valuable resource that combines autobiographical sources, personal interviews, and questions for reflection to explore issues relevant ...
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185,36 |
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Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
ISBN: 9780312671938 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The basis of the PBS American Experience documentary Stonewall Uprising. In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the longtime landscape of the homosexual in society literally overnight. Since then the event itself has become the stuff of legend, with relatively little hard information available on the riots themselves. Now, based on hundreds of interviews, an exhaustive search of public and previously sealed files, and over a decade of intensive research into the history and the topic,... The basis of the PBS American Experience documentary Stonewall Uprising. In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Sto... |
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83,85 |
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Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II
ISBN: 9780807871775 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military. In Coming Out Under Fire, Allan Berube examines in depth and detail these social and political confrontation--not as a story of how the military victimized homosexuals, but as a story of how a dynamic power relationship developed between gay citizens and their government, transforming them both. Drawing on GIs' wartime letters, extensive...
During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces ...
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156,09 |
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Queer Twin Cities
ISBN: 9780816653201 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Twin Cities is home to one of the largest and most vital GLBT populations in the nation-and one of the highest percentages of gay residents in the country. Drawn from the pioneering work of the Twin Cities GLBT Oral History Project-a collective organization of students, scholars, and activists devoted to documenting and interpreting the lives of GLBT people in Minneapolis and St. Paul-Queer Twin Cities is a uniquely critical collection of essays on Minnesota's vibrant queer communities, past and present.
A rich blend of oral history, archival research, and ethnography, Queer... The Twin Cities is home to one of the largest and most vital GLBT populations in the nation-and one of the highest percentages of gay residents in the...
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307,30 |
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Queer Twin Cities: Volume 31
ISBN: 9780816653218 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A pioneering look at the queer history, politics, and spaces of the Twin Cities.
A pioneering look at the queer history, politics, and spaces of the Twin Cities.
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107,26 |
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The Canadian War on Queers: National Security as Sexual Regulation
ISBN: 9780774816281 / Angielski / Miękka / 554 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 target -- people who deviated from the so-called norm -- as threats to society and enemies of the state. Reconstructed from official security regime documents released through the Access to Information Act and interviews with gays, lesbians, civil servants, and high-ranking officials, The Canadian War on Queers offers a passionate, personalized account of a national security campaign that... From the 1950s to the late 1990s, agents of the state spied on, interrogated, and harassed gays and lesbians in Canada, employing social ideologies... |
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146,29 |
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