Same-Sex Marriage in the Americas : Policy Innovation for Same-Sex Relationships
ISBN: 9780739128657 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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493,13 zł |
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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222,71 zł |
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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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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307,59 zł |
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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81,75 zł |
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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203,42 zł |
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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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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When Gay People Get Married: What Happens When Societies Legalize Same-Sex Marriage
ISBN: 9780814709306 / Angielski / Miękka / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Psychological Association's 44th Division (the Society for the Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Issues) The summer of 2008 was the summer of love and commitment for gays and lesbians in the United States. Thousands of same-sex couples stood in line for wedding licenses all over California in the first few days after same-sex marriage was legalized. On the other side of the country, Massachusetts, the very first state to give gay couples marriage rights, took the last step to... Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Psychological Association's 44th Division (the Society for the Psychological ... |
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130,92 zł |
Are We Thinking Straight?: The Politics of Straightness in a Lesbian and Gay Social Movement Organization
ISBN: 9780415882958 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book highlights the strategic deployment of a straight identity by an LGBT organization. Cortese explores the ways in which activists strategically use a straight identity as a social movement tool in order to successfully achieve the movement objectives.
This book highlights the strategic deployment of a straight identity by an LGBT organization. Cortese explores the ways in which activists strategical...
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226,63 zł |
Radical Records (Routledge Revivals): Thirty Years of Lesbian and Gay History, 1957-1987
ISBN: 9780415591140 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The period between the publication in 1957 of the liberalizing Wolfenden Report and the introduction in 1987 of the homophobic Section 28 was characterized by unprecedented optimism and political activism among lesbians and gay men in Britain. Here, the contributors recount their own personal narratives.
The period between the publication in 1957 of the liberalizing Wolfenden Report and the introduction in 1987 of the homophobic Section 28 was characte...
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216,55 zł |
Queer America: A People's Glbt History of the United States
ISBN: 9781595586360 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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. Written in the tradition of Howard Zinn s A People s History of the United States, Queer America, provides a decade-by-decade overview of major issues and events in GLBT history including the Harlem Renaissance, changes in military policy, the Stonewall riots, organizations and alliances, AIDS, same-sex marriage,... 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 Unit... |
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94,67 zł |
My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History
ISBN: 9780807871959 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This anthology pays tribute to Allan Berube (1946-2007), a self-taught historian and MacArthur Fellow who was a pioneer in the study of lesbian and gay history in the United States. Best known for his Lambda Literary Award-winning book Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II (1990), Berube also wrote extensively on the history of sexual politics in San Francisco and on the relationship between sexuality, class, and race. John D'Emilio and Estelle Freedman, who were close colleagues and friends of Berube, have selected sixteen of his most important...
This anthology pays tribute to Allan Berube (1946-2007), a self-taught historian and MacArthur Fellow who was a pioneer in the study of lesbian and ga...
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203,42 zł |
Awfully Devoted Women: Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65
ISBN: 9780774817394 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The lives of lesbians who grew up before 1965 remain cloaked in mystery. Historians have illuminated the worlds of upper-middle-class "romantic friends" and working-class butch and femme women who frequented lesbian bars in the ?50s and ?60s. The majority of lesbians, however, were lower-middle-class women who hid their sexual identity by engaging in discreet social and sexual relationships. Drawing on correspondence, interviews, journals, and newspaper articles, Awfully Devoted Women offers a nuanced portrait of the lives of middle-class lesbians in the decades before the gay... The lives of lesbians who grew up before 1965 remain cloaked in mystery. Historians have illuminated the worlds of upper-middle-class "romantic fri... |
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156,16 zł |
The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: 9780691149936 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
Canaday looks at three key arenas of government control--immigration, the military, and welfare--and demonstrates how federal enforcement of sexual norms emerged with the rise of the modern bureaucratic state. She begins at...
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106,05 zł |
Now That You're Out: The Challenges and Joys of Living as a Gay Man
ISBN: 9780313387517 / Angielski / Twarda / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For some gay men being homosexual is often anything but "gay." What are typically assumed to be "gay attributes" are often not characteristics of being gay but symptoms of common emotional disorders in gay men. In this insightful book, longtime psychiatrist Martin Kantor--who is himself a gay man and has been in a committed relationship for 27 years--documents the issues associated with coming out and the challenges of gay relationships, including friendship, marriage, "getting dumped," and sexuality, with unflinching and honest candor. He also addresses the emotional problems and... For some gay men being homosexual is often anything but "gay." What are typically assumed to be "gay attributes" are often not characteristics of b... |
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Our Bodies Are Beauty Inducers
ISBN: 9781608640126 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. our bodies are beauty inducers is a fantastic and fantastical exploration of gender and the physical ground upon which it plays. hastain's words explode the amorphous domain where bodies and beauty meet. Electrifying and kinetic, hastain's work shatters and reassembles the physical into intersecting recombinant zones of meaning: the physical induces beauty in the eyes of the other and true beauty received by the other removes otherness...
our bodies are beauty inducers is a fantastic and fantastical exploration of gender and the physical ground upon which it plays. hastain's words explo...
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Unavailable: One Lesbian's Struggle with the Bisexuality of Other Women
ISBN: 9781456587000 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Welcome to the world of "the unsures," Angela Kelly's affectionate term for women falling at various points on the in-between scale of gay and straight.
Meet Liza, the single mother from an under privileged background, used to finding partners who will give her a sense of security. Then there's Jennifer, the stripper who really does have a heart of gold. Sandy is the direly sexy friend Angela chased for years before winning over. Annie presents herself as a teacher and mentor but proves to be a manipulative narcissist. These and the other characters present a rich tapestry of love, lust,... Welcome to the world of "the unsures," Angela Kelly's affectionate term for women falling at various points on the in-between scale of gay and straigh...
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58,72 zł |
Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
ISBN: 9780807051153 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2011 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency
A groundbreaking work that turns a queer eye on the criminal legal system, Queer (In)Justice is a searing examination of queer experiences as suspects, defendants, prisoners, and survivors of crime. The authors unpack queer criminal archetypes like gleeful gay killers, lethal lesbians, disease spreaders, and deceptive gender benders to illustrate the punishment of queer expression, regardless of whether a crime was ever committed. Tracing stories from the streets... Winner of the 2011 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency
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Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization
ISBN: 9780816656332 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We are all caught up in one another, Scott Lauria Morgensen asserts, we who live in settler societies, and our interrelationships inform all that these societies touch. Native people live in relation to all non-Natives amid the ongoing power relations of settler colonialism, despite never losing inherent claims to sovereignty as indigenous peoples. Explaining how relational distinctions of "Native" and "settler" define the status of being "queer," Spaces between Us argues that modern queer subjects emerged among Natives and non-Natives by engaging the meaningful difference... We are all caught up in one another, Scott Lauria Morgensen asserts, we who live in settler societies, and our interrelationships inform all that t... |
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120,84 zł |