History Books


Homosexuality In History Best Price: $8.41 Spencer is trying to write a history of homosexuality that is not philosophical like Foucault's...	The Masculine Woman in America, 1890-1935 Best Price: $28.57 The Masculine Woman in America, 1890-1935 examines how the suffrage movement's efforts to secure...	Same-Sex Love in India: Readings from Literature and History Best Price: $25.86 research like this hasn't been done before. the book helps proove that homosexuality is so much...	The Wedding Complex: Forms of Belonging in Modern American Culture (Series Q) Best Price: $11.87 In The Wedding Complex Elizabeth Freeman explores the significance of the wedding ceremony by...	Courting Equality: A Documentary History of America's First Legal Same-Sex Marriages Best Price: $16.50 About 10,000 same-sex couples have wed in Massachusetts since 2003, when that state's Supreme...



For You, Lili Marlene: A Memoir of World War II Best Price: $3.42 Nothing earth-shaking happens in the foreground of this brief (but intense) memoir of repressed...	Homosexual Themes in Literary Studies (Studies in Homosexuality, Vol 8) Best Price: $200.25	Body, Remember: A Memoir (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies) Best Price: $14.18 This book started out reading like poetry--but as I read I got lost in the muddle that was the...	Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928 Best Price: $21.03 Intimate Friends explores the fascinating history of the erotic friendships of educated English...	Out on Stage: Lesbian and Gay Theater in the Twentieth Century Best Price: $39.95 What could be a drag is actually an in-depth, original look at stage representations of lesbians...



On Psychological Prose Best Price: $6.00 Comparable in importance to Mikhail Bakhtin, Lydia Ginzburg distinguished herself among Soviet...	Presence and Desire: Essays on Gender, Sexuality, Performance (Critical Perspectives on Women and Gender) Best Price: $25.95 This book is a great surprise - Jill Dolan is perhaps the best author to date to tie the bond...	Queer Lives: Men's Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century France Best Price: $25.17 Eight gay men wrote their autobiographies in French between 1845 and 1905; some of them...	The Erotic Whitman Best Price: $5.50 In this provocative analysis of Whitman's exemplary quest for happiness, Vivian Pollak...	Gay Cuban Nation Best Price: $21.97 Emilio Bejel's sensible analyses of Cuban fiction (on page and screen) shows that the project of...

A Problem Like Maria: Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical (Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance) Best Price: $20.08 I am reminded of the old story that a man who only has a hammer sees every problem as a nail....	Ziegfeld Girl: Image and Icon in Culture and Cinema Best Price: $8.35 This incredibly boring and technical book deliberately skips any possible entertainment value...	Weathering Change: Gays and Lesbians, Christian Conservatives, and Everyday Hostilities Best Price: $20.41 View the Table of Contents . Read Chapter 1 . "An important contribution to the...	Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema Best Price: $17.95 In this innovative analysis of the interconnections between nation and aesthetics in the United...	From the Closet to the Screen: Women at the Gateways Club 1945-85 Best Price: $14.95 The Gateways Club, at the heart of 1960s Swinging London, was one of the few places where...

Francis Poulenc (Outlines) Best Price: $7.95 Richard Burton explores the fascinating world of early to mid-twentieth century artistic gay...	Robbie Ross: Oscar Wilde's Devoted Friend Best Price: $21.23 Robbie Ross most certainly deserves acknowledgement for demonstrating true friendship to Oscar...	Infamous Desire: Male Homosexuality in Colonial Latin America Best Price: $19.92 On the coattails of "Colonialism and Homosexuality," a fascinating historical work by...	Straight Acting: Popular Gay Drama from Wilde to Rattigan (Lesbian & Gay Studies) Best Price: $24.00 Histories of British gay male playwrights have tended to begin with a nod to Oscar Wilde and...	Queer Nations: Marginal Sexualities in the Maghreb Best Price: $22.00 The Maghreb (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia) has been inhabited for millennia by a heterogeneous...

A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture Best Price: $1.77 Fellows, Will. "A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture", University of...	The Sharon Kowalski Case: Lesbian and Gay Rights on Trial Best Price: $2.50 While car-crash victim Sharon Kowalski lay comatose in the hospital, battle lines were drawn...	Romance Revisited Best Price: $3.01 After decades of feminism and deconstruction, romance remains firmly in place as a central...	Same-Sex Affairs: Constructing and Controlling Homosexuality in the Pacific Northwest Best Price: $18.65 At the turn of the twentieth century, two distinct, yet at times overlapping, male same-sex...	Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard Best Price: $3.98

Strapped for Cash: A History of American Hustler Culture Best Price: $13.09 chicago's loss is pittsburgh's gain. friedman is a great hagiographer. and while his book...	Out of Order: Homosexuality in the Bible and the Ancient Near East Best Price: $50.50 Homosexuality is one of the most vexing moral issues facing the contemporary church. For...	Tallulah Bankhead (Outlines (Bath, England).) Best Price: $6.95 IF I had BOUGHT this abysmal book; I would contemplate felony charges! Personally passionate...	Femme: Feminists, Lesbians and Bad Girls Best Price: $29.87 Feminists, Lesbians, and Bad Girls alike will enjoy this book whether or not they identify as...	Coming Out: A Documentary Play About Gay Life and Liberation in the U.S.A. (Homosexuality)

Regarding Sedgwick: Essays on Queer Culture and Critical Theory Best Price: $97.37 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is one of the most important figures in the history of modern gender...	A Year with the Ladies of Llangollen	Brothers and Others in Arms: The Making of Love and War in Israeli Combat Units Best Price: $12.74 Kaplan, Danny. "Brothers and Others in Arms: The Making of Love and War in Israeli Combat...	Hungochani: The History Of A Dissident Sexuality In Southern Africa Best Price: $25.88 In the introduction, the author suggests that he has a background in radical gay rights...	John Gay and the London Theatre Best Price: $20.00

The Freddie Mercury Story: Living on the Edge Freddie Mercury's name is spelled correctly in this title. Just because some people may prefer...	Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance Best Price: $10.45 Spicer and Ginsberg influenced one another, as is clearly shown in this book. Ginsberg stole a...	Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel: From Leavis to Levinas Best Price: $36.14 Gibson sets out to demonstrate that postmodern theory has actually made possible an ethical...	Homographesis: Essays in Gay Literary and Cultural Theory Best Price: $34.95 Brings provocative, rigorous and controversial readings of literary and cultural texts to gay...	Gaylaw: Challenging the Apartheid of the Closet Best Price: $6.00 This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal issues concerning gender and sexual...

Writing Desire: Sixty Years of Gay Autobiography (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography) Best Price: $21.92 Cohler, Betram J. "Writing Desire: Sixty Years of Gay Autobiography." The University...	Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700-1800 (Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Cultur) Best Price: $55.00	In Jewish Texas: A Family Memoir Best Price: $3.98 Stanley Ely says that when the fiftieth or so person confronted him with a skeptical, "You...	Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones: Queering Space in the Stonewall South Best Price: $4.21 This is basically a textbook, written by an academician, and the poor fella has amassed plenty...	Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It Brett Millier pieces together the compelling and painful story of Bishop's life and traces the...

New Lesbian Criticism: Literary and Cultural Readings (Between Men-Between Women Lesbian and Gay Studies) Best Price: $2.07 This volume explores whether there can be a specific lesbian aesthetic, juxtaposed against...	The Films of Kristen Bjorn Kristen Bjorn's camera captures and celebrates the world's most perfect men: buff, muscular and...	Contemporary Gay American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook Best Price: $49.00 While many of the articles in the collection Gay American Novelists lack a sufficient critical...	The Fruit Machine: Twenty Years of Writings on Queer Cinema Best Price: $29.90 For more than twenty years, film critic, teacher, activist, and fan Thomas Waugh has been...	Queer Lyrics: Difficulty and Closure in American Poetry Best Price: $56.46 Queer Lyrics fills a gap in queer studies: the lyric, as poetic genre, has never been directly...

Love's Litany: The Writing of Modern Homoerotics Best Price: $4.05	Gay and Lesbian San Francisco (Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)) (Images of America) Best Price: $12.29 In recent years, San Francisco has been synonymous with gay and lesbian pride, and the various...	Eros and Polis: Desire and Community in Greek Political Theory Best Price: $45.00 Paul Ludwig examines how and why Greek theorists treated political passions as erotic. Because...	At the Borders of the Human: Beasts, Bodies and Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period Best Price: $33.25 What is, what was the human? This book argues that the making of the human as it is now...	Claustrophilia: The Erotics of Enclosure in Medieval Literature (The New Middle Ages) Best Price: $65.00 If ours is a cultural moment intensely fascinated with enclosed space—the cubicles of...

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