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An Introduction to GLBT Family Studies
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95Gain a better understanding of the special therapeutic issues and needs of GLBT families In terms of research, GLBT families constitute a neglected segment of society. Gender and sexual orientation can make the issues in family studies even more difficult to work through. An Introduction to GLBT Family Studies tackles a challenging research topic... more...
How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization
Penguin Group US 2005; US$ 15.95A cultural history of the customs, fashions, and figures of gay life in the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries-and how they have changed us for the better. How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization presents a broad yet incisive look at how an unusual "immigrant" group, homosexual men, has influenced mainstream American society and... more...
The Culture of Desire
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 17.00Is there such a thing as an American gay culture--a set of styles, values, and behaviors that arises not from ethnicity or religion but from sexual orientation? How is that culture transmitted? And how is it likely to survive the depradations of homophobia and AIDS? These questions are explored by Browning, a reporter for NPR. From the Trade Paperback... more...
Cruising Utopia
NYU Press 2009; US$ 70.00The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist. Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch, José Esteban Muñoz... more...
Imagining Gay Paradise
Hong Kong University Press, HKU 2012; US$ 50.00Mages of Manhood focuses on three gay paradises in Southeast Asia and the men who created them. It examines a manhood of savoring that challenges the male contests often inspired by nationalism and imperialism. It is also studies the obstacles gay men have faced in securing a voice as citizens. more...
The End of Gay
Doubleday Canada 2012; US$ 21.95Gay is a phase. Not something people go through in adolescence, but, like feminism, a cultural, historical movement, on the way to something bigger. Through the prism of his own sexual past and present, with a wide array of references to pop culture, literature and history, Archer traces the rise and imminent fall of gay. Along the way, he cites historical... more...
Es fühlt sich endlich richtig an!
Ch. Links Verlag 2012; US$ 10.77Hauptbeschreibung Wenn Frauen und Männer sich nach oft langjährigen heterosexuellen Beziehungen in einen Menschen des eigenen Geschlechts verlieben, gerät ihre Welt ins Wanken. Nach einer Zeit der Verdrängung oder von einem Tag auf den anderen wagen sie den Schritt in eine neue Form der Beziehung, eine unbekannte Szene, eine andere Lebensart. Helga... more...
The Meaning of Gay
Lexington Books 2012; US$ 38.99The Meaning of Gay traces the conflicts among San Francisco's gay men and with the dominant society, describing the broad range of meanings they came to ascribe onto 'gayness' between 1962 and 1972. Combining historical method, symbolic interaction, and the concerns of John Dewey's pragmatism, the book explains why gay men created the meanings they... more...
Stuck in the Middle with You
Crown Publishing Group 2013; US$ 24.00New York Times bestseller and acclaimed author Jennifer Finney Boylan returns with a remarkable memoir about gender and parenting, including incredible interviews discussing gender, how families are shaped, and the difficulties and wonders of being human. A father for ten years, a mother for eight, and for a time in between, neither, or both... more...
Queer Singapore
Hong Kong University Press, HKU 2012; US$ 50.00Singapore remains one of the few countries in Asia that has yet to decriminalize homosexuality. Yet it has also been hailed by many as one of the emerging gay capitals of Asia. This book accounts for the rise of mediated queer cultures in Singapores current milieu of illiberal citizenship. This collection analyses how contemporary queer Singapore... more...









