History Books


The American Byron: Homosexuality and the Fall of Fitz-Greene Halleck Best Price: $15.95 This book, an interesting documentary of 18th and 19th homosexuality in America captured my...	Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age (Asian Voices) Best Price: $25.91 Scholarship on Japan has recently broadened to include minority perspectives on communities from...	Colonialism and Homosexuality Best Price: $37.76 once upon a time, two countries, england and france, became soooo powerful that they decided to...	Wearing History: T-Shirts from the Gay Rights Movement Best Price: $11.46 I purchased this book along with a couple of other t-shirt books for inspiration for my...	History of Homosexuality in Europe: Berlin, London, Paris 1919-1939 Volume 1 Best Price: $28.77 The period between the two world wars was crucial in the history of homosexuality in Europe. It...



A Perilous Advantage: The Best of Natalie Clifford Barney Best Price: $7.95 I have to say it was worth buying for the price but I was disappointed with the book overall....	A History of Bisexuality (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society) Best Price: $22.97 I had high hopes for this book, but the postdoc author seems much too intent on proving he's...	Great Events From History: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Trangender Events (Great Events from History) Best Price: $175.00	My Year of Living Heterosexually: And Other Adventures in Hell Best Price: $8.72 "My Year of Living Heterosexually and other Adventures in Hell" is the memoir of...	Uncommon Calling: A Gay Christian's Struggle to Serve the Church Best Price: $2.60 Chris Glaser's book poinently and beautifully describes his struggle to find a place in the...



In Memory of Elaine Marks: Life Writing, Writing Death Best Price: $29.95 Goodkin, Richard E. "In Memory of Elaine Marks: Life Writing, Writing Death"....	Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations (Routledge Research in Gender and Society) Best Price: $84.90 This book, the first full-length study of its kind, dares to probe the biggest taboo in...	Alexander the Great: The Man Who Brought the World to Its Knees Best Price: $3.00 Michael Alvear has givien us another biography of Alexander, and it's a fun read. I don't agree...	Homosexuality: A Philosophical Inquiry Best Price: $27.99	Theory in Its Feminist Travels: Conversations in U.S. Women's Movements Best Price: $12.20

Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction (Series Q) Best Price: $6.00 Novel Gazing is the first collection of queer criticism on the history of the novel. The...	Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (Perverse Modernities) Best Price: $21.59 This book by all mean is not intended for lay-man audience. This book delve deep into psychology...	Looking for Sex in Shakespeare Best Price: $13.84 This slim volume (fewer than a hundred pages of text) by Stanley Wells is something of a tease....	One Of The Boys: Homosexuality in the Military During World War II Best Price: $29.94	Tweakers: How Crystal Meth Is Ravaging Gay America Best Price: $6.85 This was the last book I read before my most recent relapse. I cannot be sure that I decided to...

Bisexual Politics: Theories, Queries, and Visions (Haworth Gay and Lesbian Studies) (Haworth Gay and Lesbian Studies) Best Price: $46.73 I enjoyed the book overall, but found it lacking in someperspectives. It's wonderful from a...	Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History Best Price: $22.42 At the start of the twentieth century, tales of “how the other half lives”...	Going the Distance: Dissident Subjectivity in Modernist American Literature (Horizons in Theory and American Culture) Best Price: $10.00 This bold new theoretical study explores dissident subjectivity, that is, the struggle for...	The Queen's Throat: Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire Best Price: $5.71 This book is well-written, which is why I give it 3 stars; but much of it is well-written...	Dancing Desires: Choreographing Sexualities on and Off the Stage (Studies in Dance History) Best Price: $24.95 "This break-through volume opens a long overdue discussion of dance and sexuality."...

Queering Teen Culture: All-American Boys And Same-Sex Desire in Film And Television Best Price: $26.36 I found this a very interesting book. I have seen many old shows and always thought some of the...	Proust's Lesbianism Best Price: $17.45 If this book can be classified as "queer theory," then it is queer theory done...	Pictures and Passions: A History of Homosexuality in the Visual Arts Best Price: $0.19 I bought this primarily for the historical aspect and also as it was recommended by the artist...	Roads of Excess, Palaces of Wisdom: Eroticism and Reflexivity in the Study of Mysticism Best Price: $19.99 The aspect of Kripal's book that I enjoyed the most was seeing the realities of the academic...	A Few Doors West of Hope : The Life and Times of Dauntless Don Slater Best Price: $32.20

Brief Encounters: Lesbians and Gays in British Cinema 1930-1971 (Film Studies) Best Price: $14.94	Leatherman's Handbook: The Original Back in the seventies, it was still a very risky proposition to attempt a gay publication of any...	Barton Mumaw, Dancer: From Denishawn to Jacob's Pillow and Beyond Best Price: $2.73 there is a formidable history in barton mumaw's life. he went from a small town in florida...	The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom (Lesbian & Gay Studies) Best Price: $27.98 In this anthology of essays from her political career, Smith challenges America and the social...	Men's Bodies, Men's Gods: Male Identities in a (Post) Christian Culture (Post- Christian Culture) Best Price: $18.25 Men's Bodies, Men's Gods explores the intersection of body, religion, and culture from the...

Gay and Lesbian Historical Fiction: Sexual Mystery and Post-Secular Narrative Best Price: $52.24 I have had the priveleg to have Norman as a professor and I can tell you that is very well...	The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde Best Price: $3.17 As this book makes abundantly clear, Alfred Douglas is to blame. Al wanted to get back at his...	Women And Film Pb (Culture And The Moving Image) Best Price: $28.92 Brought together for the first time, these lively, sophisticated essays bring into focus...	Music and Sexuality in Britten: Selected Essays Best Price: $22.30 Philip Brett's groundbreaking writing on Benjamin Britten altered the course of music...	Criminal Desires: Jean Genet & Cinema (Persistence of Vision) Best Price: $4.60 Jean Genet, the French author notorious for his overt cele-bration of criminality and...

Alternate Channels: The Uncensored Story of Gay and Lesbian Images on Radio and Television, 1930s to the Present Best Price: $11.51 Author Steven Capsuto chronicles the history (1930-2000) of gay and lesbian characters on...	Tapestries of Life: Women's Work, Women's Consciousness, and the Meaning of Daily Experience Best Price: $12.94 Aptheker's book serves as a concise introduction to women's studies and as an interesting read. ...	The Forger's Tale: The Search for Odeziaku (New African Histories) Best Price: $14.95 Between 1905 and 1939 a conspicuously tall white man with a shock of red hair, dressed in a silk...	The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics, and Culture Best Price: $18.11 This book reflects D'Emilio's roles as gay history scholar and policy director at the National...	Who's Who in Contemporary Gay and Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day (Who'swho) Best Price: $14.28 Although this is a very interesting and useful book, almost of all entries are so-called...

One Mykonos: Being Ancient, Being Islands, Being Giants, Being Gay Best Price: $8.25 I wanted to love this book. Like so many others I long to experience the magic of Mykonos and...	Lesbian images	Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism Best Price: $47.11 This is an incredibly insightful, well argued, and superbly interesting study of male desire and...	Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent Best Price: $22.94 The first full-length study of same-sex love in any period of Russian or Soviet history, ...	Queer Iberia: Sexualities, Cultures, and Crossings from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance (Series Q) Best Price: $22.95 I was a little bit disappointed when I received this book, because I was expecting a more...

Mother Clap's Molly House: The Gay Subculture in England 1700-1830 Best Price: $25.17 Norton has focused on the Georgian Era, when he says that an organized gay subculture first...	Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America Best Price: $3.98 This is a hard book to read because it makes you confront your own racisism and homophobia. If...	Arthur Rimbaud (Outlines) Best Price: $12.72 I was very pleased to find in this book not just a reliable short introduction to Rimbaud's life...	No Bath but Plenty of Bubbles: An Oral History of the Gay Liberation Front, 1970-73 (Lesbian & Gay Studies) Best Price: $2.95	The Myth of the Modern Homosexual: Queer History and the Search for Cultural Unity (Sexual Politics) Best Price: $44.94 I used to believe that it would take advanced biology to refute the absurd claims of social...

Such Is My Love: A Study of Shakespeare's Sonnets Best Price: $21.00 Given the importance of this book, I find myself puzzled by thefact that I am the first to...	Secret Sexualities: A Sourcebook of 17th and 18th Century Writing Best Price: $37.57 A groundbreaking, comprehensive study of lesbian and gay culture from 1620-1785, Secret...	America's Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage Best Price: $1.98 America's Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage chronicles the evolution of the social movement for...

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