History Books


Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies Best Price: $28.00 Breaking Bounds invigorates the study of Whitman and American culture by presenting essays that...	In the Company of Men: Representations of Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji Literature Best Price: $57.00 Many books on Modern Japanese literature often give the reader an impression that there is a...	Making Girls into Women: American Women's Writing and the Rise of Lesbian Identity (Series Q) Best Price: $22.95 Making Girls into Women offers an account of the historical emergence of "the...	Edge (Southern Tier Editions) (Southern Tier Editions) Best Price: $23.07 This is the second book I've read by Jeff Mann, and he is quickly becoming an all-time favorite...	Working Like a Homosexual: Camp, Capital, Cinema Best Price: $11.95 Tinkcom's text is hard to digest at times, especially the lengthy introduction that exposes the...



Sexual Encounters/Sexual Collisions: Alternative Sexualities in Colonial Mesoamerica (Ethnohistory) Best Price: $15.00 This special issue of Ethnohistory explores the relationships among sexuality, power, and...	Broadway Babies Say Goodnight: Musicals Then and Now Best Price: $18.50 This is a brilliant read. I return to it regularly, Steyn's sense of humour and perspective is...	The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement (Social Movements Past and Present Series)	Sodom on the Thames: Sex, Love, and Scandal in Wilde Times Best Price: $28.58 I enjoyed Kaplan's book and felt a tinge of sympathy for him, once I dove into it and realized...	Sex and the Gender Revolution, Volume 1: Heterosexuality and the Third Gender in Enlightenment London (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society) Best Price: $44.97 Well composed, contraversial and smart, Trumbach is a brilliant man and professor! - Garcia...



From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization Best Price: $22.00 A fascinating, useful, comprehensive look at (mostly) Global North movements variously described...	Male Intergenerational Intimacy: Historical, Socio-Psychological, and Legal Perspectives Best Price: $17.30 This groundbreaking book presents new historical, legal, sociological, psychological, and...	Sexuality and Form: Caravaggio, Marlowe, and Bacon Best Price: $19.88 Hammill's book offers an interesting and much needed discussion of three important men relating...	Oscar and Bosie: A Fatal Passion Best Price: $6.50	The Gay Male Sleuth in Print and Film: A History and Annotated Bibliography Best Price: $11.77 Like the gay sleuths of whom he writes, esteemed scholar and gay historian Gunn leaves no stone...

The Gay Liberation Youth Movement in New York: An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail (Studies in American Popular History and Culture) Best Price: $92.80 This is a sensitive and very important book about a topic that has been barely scratched by the...	Chaucer's Queer Nation (Medieval Cultures, V. 34) Best Price: $28.00 Bringing the concerns of queer theory and postcolonial studies to bear on Chaucer's Canterbury...	Beethoven's Kiss: Pianism, Perversion, and the Mastery of Desire Best Price: $16.47 Kopelson's sense of humor is very entertaining. I am quite new to the field of musicology, and...	From Gay to Queer: Gay Male Identity in Selected Fiction by David Leavitt and in Tony Kushner's Play "Angels in America I-II Best Price: $76.94	The U.S. Military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Policy: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues) Best Price: $55.00 In this narrative overview, Embser-Herbert explores the history of the policy of "Don't...

Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990 : An Oral History Best Price: $26.84 I am glad to say I own a copy; an autographed one at that! This book is a collection of oral...	Knock on Woodstock: The Uproarious, Uncensored Story of the Woodstock Festival, the Gay Man Who Made It Happen, and How He Earned His Ticket to Free Best Price: $16.10 I ENJOYED THE WAY YOU FIND OUT INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE FESTIVAL THAT ARE HUMMOROUS. VERY...	Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature: Genders Share Flesh Best Price: $29.92 This book is the first of its kind—a comprehensive account of transvestism and the...	The Attack Queers: Liberal Society and the Gay Right Best Price: $6.54 Initally appearing to defy all odds, GLBT conservatives have become the media darlings of the...	The Portable Queer: A Gay in the Life: A Compilation of Saints and Sinners in Gay History (The Portable Queer) Best Price: $7.10 McHugh, Erin. "A Gay in the Life" A Compilation of Saints and Sinners in Gay...

Caffe Cino: The Birthplace of Off-Off-Broadway (Theater in the Americas) Best Price: $29.97 This book is a treasure for theatre students and enthusiasts, a valuable resource for everyone...	Blackfoot Physics: A Journey into the Native American Worldview Best Price: $18.45 Grounds heady new understandings and observations in physics and quantum physics with the human...	Jack Nichols, Gay Pioneer: "Have You Heard My Message?" (Glbt Community & Youth Studies) Best Price: $15.48 Campbell III, PhD, J. Louis. "Jack Nichols: Gay Pioneer: Have You Heard My Message?",...	One-Handed Histories: The Eroto-Politics of Gay Male Video Pornography (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies) (Haworth Gay & Lesbian Studies) Best Price: $15.51 This book really TELLS you how to have sex, even when neither of the two people having the sex...	The Bohemian Body: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Czech Culture Best Price: $59.44 Thomas, Alfred. "The Bohemian Body: Gender and Sexuality in Modern Czech Culture",...

Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theater (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance) Best Price: $14.82 Compiled and edited by academician Robin Bernstein (who teaches in the Program of Studies of...	He's All Man: Learning Masculinity, Gayness, and Love from American Movies Best Price: $3.92 Is it possible that this book's been on sale for a year and a half and no one's read it? Or is...	Carryin' On in the Lesbian and Gay South Best Price: $23.00 "This assortment of touching, hilarious, and very smart essays moves lesbian and gay...	Unspeakable: The Rise of the Gay and Lesbian Press in America Best Price: $25.00	Gays and Lesbians in the Military: Issues, Concerns, and Contrasts (Social Problems and Social Issues) Best Price: $25.95

Entre Mundos / Among Worlds: New Perspectives on Gloria Anzaldua Best Price: $62.96 The world lost an innovative and articulate feminist-womanist thinker when Gloria Anzaldua died...	Boys at Sea: Sodomy, Indecency, and Courts Martial in Nelson's Navy Best Price: $50.30 Boys at Sea is a study of homoerotic life in the Royal Navy during the age of sail. It deals...	City Of Sisterly And Brotherly Loves: Lesbian And Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972 Best Price: $21.90 Marc Stein's City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves is refreshing for at least two reasons: it...	Tony Kushner (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) Best Price: $45.00	Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now?: Multicultural Conservatism in America Best Price: $12.49 Multicultural conservatism is often treated like "the evil that no one dark speaks its...

Oscar Wilde: Paperback Book Best Price: $4.95 Reissued to coincide with the recent revival of interest in Oscar Wilde, this stimulating...	AIDS And American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics Of An Epidemic (Suny Series in the Sociology of Culture) Best Price: $17.00	The Witch's Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense (Perverse Modernities) Best Price: $20.68 If someone said to me, "There's an academic book examining 'Set It Off', 'Sankofa', Pam...	Sexual Orientation and Human Rights in American Religious Discourse Best Price: $30.00 This is an excellent and much needed survey of attitudes among various denominations toward...	The View From Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers Best Price: $8.25 It's impressive how the author seems to know all the right questions to ask -- the ones that...

Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and the University Best Price: $8.90 John D'Emilio is a celebrated gay academic who wrote about gay issues when scholars were too...	Scotch Verdict: Miss Pirie and Miss Woods v. Dame Cumming Gordon Best Price: $8.98 The true-life story of two 19th-century Scottish school mistresses accused of having a lesbian...	Closeted Writing And Lesbian And Gay Literature: Classical, Early Modern, Eighteenth-century Best Price: $29.98	Homoeroticism in Classical Arabic Literature Best Price: $3.93 This is a very interesting and readable book not only for westerners or exclusive monotheists...	The Changing Room : Sex, Drag and Theatre (Gender in Performance) (Gender in Performance) Best Price: $42.17 Laurence Senelick's The Changing Room is an entertaining and well-written exploration of the...

Locked in the Family Cell: Gender, Sexuality, and Political Best Price: $32.35 Conrad gives new insight into this very interesting topic. This book opened my eyes, and changed...	The Lives of Lesbian Elders: Looking Back, Looking Forward (Haworth Innovations in Feminist Studies) (Haworth Innovations in Feminist Studies) Best Price: $0.25 The untold history of lesbian life from those who have lived it! Lives of Lesbian Elders:...	Gay Fandom and Crossover Stardom: James Dean, Mel Gibson, and Keanu Reeves Best Price: $3.98 Why and how does the appeal of certain male Hollywood stars cross over from straight to gay...	Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance (Blacks in the Diaspora) Best Price: $18.85 Honestly, the book is a a difficult read in some spots. Some items may require a second reading...	Tibet-o-Rama Best Price: $24.95 Tibet-O-Rama is a journey into the unfurling and weaving of the intricate vine of personality...

Damned Women: Lesbians in French Novels, 1796-1996 Best Price: $26.75	The Public Face of Modernism: Little Magazines, Audiences, and Reception, 1905-1920 Best Price: $19.75 I found this book to be an interesting look at the role the little magazines played in the...	Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara: Difference, Homosexuality, Topography Best Price: $29.99 Frank O’Hara’s poetry evokes a specific era and location: New York in the...	Queer Screen: The Screen Reader (The Screen Readers) Best Price: $33.95 Queer Screen contains articles published in Screen between 1990 and 2004, spanning the period...

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