Louis Crompton traces Church-inspired mutilation, torture, and burning of sodomites in sixth-century Byzantium, medieval France, Renaissance Italy, and in Spain under the Inquisition.

Impossible Bodies investigates issues of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in contemporary Hollywood.

Kristen Hogan traces the feminist bookstore movement's rise and eventual fall, restoring its radical work to public feminist memory.

Gender Outlaw is the work of a woman who has been through some changes--a former heterosexual male, a one-time Scientologist and IBM salesperson, now a lesbian woman writer and actress who makes regular rounds on the TV (so to speak) talk ...

"In this dazzling new book, Sara Ahmed has begun a much needed dialogue between queer studies and phenomenology.

In addition to providing a rich array of photographs, illustrations, tables, and a glossary of terms, this extraordinary textbook explores: pregnancy and childbirth as a bio-cultural experience life-course issues related to gender identity, ...

A New York Times New & Noteworthy book A Penguin Vitae Edition In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action ...

DIVA collection of essays examining theories of affect and how they relate to issues of performance and performativity./div “Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's gift is to electrify intellectual communities by reminding them that ’thought’ has a ...

In this quintessential work of queer theory, Jack Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two centuries.

A broad spectrum of lesbian life, past and present.