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Fatal Women
Taylor and Francis 1994; US$ 43.95In this major contribution to lesbian theory and cultural studies, Lydia Hart explores how the shadow of the lesbian animates representations of violent women in literature, plays, film and performance. more...
Homosexuality in Modern France
Oxford University Press 1996; US$ 59.99This volume explores homosexuality in France from the 18th to the 20th centuries. The essays examine the evolution of behaviour, identities and representation in the period when homosexuality emerged, and outline the growth of homosexual subcultures and patterns of sexual repression and liberation. more...
Male Homosexuality in Modern Japan
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 69.95This book is the first to look at the wide range of contrasting images of the gay male body in Japanese popular culture, both mainstream and gay, and relate these images to the experience of an interview sample of Japanese gay men. In so doing, it touches on a number of important issues, including whether there can be a universal 'gay identity' and... more...
Breaking the Abortion Deadlock
Oxford University Press 1997; US$ 49.99This text attempts to reframe abortion rights by focusing not on a woman's right to choose abortion, but rather on a woman's right to consent to pregnancy. Drawing on legal, medical and philosophical definitions of pregnancy, it argues that men and women have equal right to bodily integrity. more...
The Wellborn Science
Oxford University Press 1990; US$ 209.99The four contributors to this volume examine the eugenic movements in Germany, France, Brazil, and the Soviet Union. The scientific components of those programmes are considered alongside the social, religious, and political forces which have altered their original scientific goals. more...
Creation and Abortion
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 27.99Based on a non-consequentialist ethical theory, this book critically examines the prevalent view that if a fetus has the moral standing of a person, it has a right to life and abortion is impermissible. Most discussion of abortion has assumed that this view is correct, and so has focused on the question of the personhood of the fetus. Kamm begins... more...
Foucault and Queer Theory
Icon Books 1999; US$ 7.95In the POSTMODERN ENCOUNTERS series and providing a brief introduction to Foucault's compelling ideas and the development of Queer culture, this is the meeting place between the Frenchman's theories of sexuality, power and discourse and the current key exponents of Queer thinking. more...
Are We Thinking Straight?
Routledge 2006; US$ 70.00Explores the ways in which activists strategically use a 'straight' identity as a social movement tool in order to achieve the movement objectives. This book offers an analysis on the strategic deployment of a straight identity by an LGBT organization. more...
Ethics of Marginality
University of Minnesota Press 1995; US$ 70.50An original and timely critique which moves gay studies beyond both identity politics and the ?rights? discourse, as it questions whose interests are served in an uncritical celebration of the Other. Champagne uses the work of such critics as Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gayatri Spivak, as he establishes a ground-breaking and controversial... more...
Evening Crowd at Kirmsers
University of Minnesota Press 2001; US$ 51.00The Evening Crowd at Kirmser?s is a compelling memoir of the author?s experiences as a young gay man during the 1940s. In an engaging and open writing style, and through stories both humorous and tragic, Brown introduces us to the companions and friends he met at Kirmser?s, a working-class bar in downtown St. Paul that became an unofficial home to... more...









