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The Lesbian Heresy
Spinifex Press 1993; US$ 16.95A critique of the lesbian sex industry's efforts to profit from women's oppression. more...
Love upon the Chopping Board
Spinifex Press 2000; US$ 12.95This autobiography, duobiography, love story, cross-cultural reflection, and lesbian history explores the personal and political attachments of lesbians in Japan and Australia. more...
What Happened to Gay Life
University of NSW Press 2007; US$ 19.50This book spans a generation of gay life, from the early activist origins of Mardi Gras to the confident, perhaps even tired, gay Sydney of today. Charting the life stories of ten very different gay men, Robert Reynolds asks whether gay life has contemporary relevance, or if being gay has lost its air of transgression and simply become another lifestyle... more...
Queer Visibilities
Wiley 2009; US$ 94.95Combining current theory and original fieldwork, Queer Visibilities explores the gap between liberal South African law and the reality for groups of queer men living in Cape Town. Explores the interface between queer sexuality, race, and urban space to show links between groups of queer men Focuses on three main 'population groups' in Cape Town—white,... more...
Women's Rights?
Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 49.95This book analyses the debates between handicapped people's movement and women's movement in Japan about the issue of selective abortion focusing on the concept of 'right'. more...
Out In The South
Temple University Press 2009; US$ 30.95In this book gays and lesbian from the Deep South to East Texas and Appalachia speak from vivid personal experience and turn an analytical eye on the South and its culture. Some contributors examine the power of traditional Southern attitudes toward race and religion, and consider the "don't ask, don't tell" attitude about homosexuality... more...
Faeries, Bears, and Leathermen
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 25.00Over time, male homosexuality and effeminacy have become indelibly associated, sometimes even synonymous. In Faeries, Bears, and Leathermen , Peter Hennen contends that this stigma of effeminacy exerts a powerful influence on gay subcultures. Through a comparative ethnographic analysis of three communities, Hennen explores the surprising ways that... more...
Queer Political Performance and Protest
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 39.95From 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... more...
Backward Glances
Reaktion Books 2004; US$ 31.00An exploration of the history of male street cruising. more...
Before Homosexuality in the Arab-Islamic World, 1500-1800
University of Chicago Press 2009; US$ 22.50Attitudes toward homosexuality in the pre-modern Arab-Islamic world are commonly depicted as schizophrenic—visible and tolerated on one hand, prohibited by Islam on the other. Khaled El-Rouayheb argues that this apparent paradox is based on the anachronistic assumption that homosexuality is a timeless, self-evident fact to which a particular... more...









