| Author: | Maggie Nelson |
| Category: |
Trans & Gender Diverse Biography and Memoir |
| Awards: | Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards: Criticism 2015. |
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the li... read more
| Author: | Joe Kort |
| Category: |
Non Fiction |
The author of the best-selling 10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do to Improve Their Lives turns his attention to the burning question of love. “There are few books for gay men on not only what to look for in Mr. Right but how to become Mr. Right. My book will address both. It is not just about findin... read more
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| Author: | Richard Canning |
| Category: |
Literary Studies |
Gay topics have been central to most national literary traditions, whether in fiction, memoir, drama, or verse. Yet "crossover" success stories are remarkably few, as are works of literature about gay subjects, written by heterosexual authors. Furthermore, openly gay-themed books tend to get passed ov... read more
Gay topics have been central to most national literary traditions, whether in fiction, memoir, drama, or verse. Yet “crossover” success stories are remarkably few, as are works of literature about gay subjects, written by heterosexual authors. Furthermore, openly gay-themed books tend to get passed ov... read more
| Author: | Dan Jones; Michele Rosenthal (Illustrator) |
| Category: |
LGBTI & Queer Studies |
LGBT people are some of the coolest in history - Freddie Mercury, Divine, Virginia Woolf, Marlene Dietrich, Andy Warhol... the list goes on. Queer subculture has had an enormous impact on style, music, science, art and literature... read more
November 2017
| Author: | Sophie Patu |
| Category: |
Womens Studies |
| Series: | A Brief History of Feminism |
The history of feminism? The right to vote, Susan B. Anthony, Gloria Steinem, white pantsuits? Oh, but there's so much more. And we need to know about it, especially now. In pithy text and pithier comics, A Brief History of Feminism engages us, educates us, makes us... read more
| Author: | Jack Holland |
| Category: |
Womens Studies |
| Series: | Brief Histories Ser. |
In this compelling, powerful book, highly respected writer and commentator Jack Holland sets out to answer a daunting question: how do you explain the oppression and brutalization of half the world's population by the other half, throughout history?
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October 2018
| Author: | Audre Lorde |
| Category: |
LGBTI & Queer Studies |
"The self-described black feminist lesbian mother poet used a mixture of prose, theory, poetry, and experience to interrogate oppressions and uplift marginalized communities. She was one of the first black feminists to target heteronormativity, and to enco... read more
| Author: | Roger Parker |
| Category: |
Popular Culture |
Abbate and Parker's A History of Opera is the first full new history of opera in sixty years - now in paperback in an updated second edition. "The best single volume ever written on the subject". (The Times Literary Supplement). Why has opera transfixed and fascinated audiences for centuries? Carolyn ... read more
October 2015
| Author: | Elaine Showalter |
| Category: |
Non Fiction |
* Revised and expanded edition contains a new introductory chapter surveying the book's reception as well as a postscript chapter celebrating the legacy of feminism and feminist criticism in the efflorescence of contemporary British fiction by women
| Author: | R.B. Parkinson |
| Category: |
History |
How old is the oldest chat-up line between men? Who was the first lesbian? Were ancient Greek men who had sex together necessarily gay? And what did Shakespeare think about cross-dressing? "A Little Gay History" takes objects ranging from A... read more
