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Queer Theories (Transitions)

Queer Theories (Transitions)


Donald E. Hall



Review "...a succinct, pedagogically designed, introduction...this book should generate lively class discussions and proj...
Fashioning Sapphism: the origins of a modern English lesbian culture

Fashioning Sapphism: the origins of a modern English lesbian culture


Laura L. Doan



Review "A fine contribution to the growing body of scholarship on the history of lesbian lives, and the image of lesbians i...
Identity Poetics: Race, Class, and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory

Identity Poetics: Race, Class, and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory


Linda Garber



Review A provocative and sophisticated book that challenges the presumed opposition between lesbian feminism and queer theo...
Up from invisibility: lesbians, gay men, and the media in America

Up from invisibility: lesbians, gay men, and the media in America


Larry P. Gross



From Publishers Weekly In this era of Ellen and Will and Grace, it's hard to remember that only half a century ago gays c...
Psychological perspectives on lesbian, gay, and bisexual experiences

Psychological perspectives on lesbian, gay, and bisexual experiences


Douglas C. Kimmel, Linda Garnets



Review This book is the most comprehensive work on lesbian and gay issues to date, and will be a classic in the field. ...
Historical Dictionary of Lesbian Literature (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts, No. 8)

Historical Dictionary of Lesbian Literature (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts, No. 8)


Meredith Miller



Review [GLBTQ] programs, and the numerous campuses with GLBTQ courses but as of yet no programs, should welcome such effo...
Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature: Genders Share Flesh

Transvestism, Masculinity, and Latin American Literature: Genders Share Flesh




Review "A truly exceptional and extraordinarily acute reflection on transvestism and the performance of gender...." -- Sy...
Queer Blake

Queer Blake


Helen P. Bruder, Tristanne J. Connolly



About the Author HELEN BRUDER is an independent scholar.  TRISTANNE CONNOLLY is Assistant Professor in the Engl...
Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives

Catholic Figures, Queer Narratives


Frederick S. Roden, Lowell Gallagher, Patricia Juliana Smith



About the Author LOWELL GALLAGHER is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is t...
Comparatively Queer: Interrogating Identities across Time and Cultures

Comparatively Queer: Interrogating Identities across Time and Cultures


Jarrod Hayes, Margaret R. Higonnet, William J. Spurlin



Review "Addressing a welter of topics ranging from Sapphic tales in early seventeeth-century Europe to animal fables in I...
Conserving Walt Whitman's Fame: Selections from Horace Traubel's Conservator, 1890-1919 (Iowa Whitman Series)

Conserving Walt Whitman's Fame: Selections from Horace Traubel's Conservator, 1890-1919 (Iowa Whitman Series)


Gary Schmidgall



Review “In Gary Schmidgall's illuminating collection, we see more clearly than ever before Horace Traubel's vital ...
Auden's Games of Knowledge

Auden's Games of Knowledge


Richard R. Bozorth



Review Bozorth's splendid study of Auden's position as a poet of "erotic autobiography" is the first serious attempt to pla...
Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet's Fiction

Queer Writing: Homoeroticism in Jean Genet's Fiction


Elizabeth Stephens



About the Author ELIZABETH STEPHENS is Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of European Discourses at the Univer...
Queer Italia: Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film

Queer Italia: Same-Sex Desire in Italian Literature and Film


Gary P. Cestaro



Review 'In conclusion, it is to be hoped that this book will circulate beyond scholars primarily interested in gender stu...
Masculine Interests

Masculine Interests


Robert Lang



Review Articulates the big screen's dedication to eroticism between men, especially in movies that now belong to the film c...
Politics Of Everyday Fear

Politics Of Everyday Fear


Brian Massumi



From Publishers Weekly Larded with obscurely academic language but including some eclectic offerings, this volume focuses...
Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama (Early Modern Cultural Studies)

Constructions of Female Homoeroticism in Early Modern Drama (Early Modern Cultural Studies)


Denise Walen



About the Author Denise Walen is Associate Professor of Drama, Vassar College. ...
The Seduction of the Mediterranean: Homosexual Writing, Art and Fantasy

The Seduction of the Mediterranean: Homosexual Writing, Art and Fantasy


Robert Aldrich



From Library Journal In this original and well-researched study, Aldrich shows that a recurring motif in the literature a...
Queer Theory and the Jewish Question

Queer Theory and the Jewish Question


Ann Pellegrini, Daniel Boyarin, Daniel Itzkovitz



Review The publication of Queer Theory and the Jewish Question is reason to get excited... [it] juggles theoretical concer...
Negotiating Sexual Idioms: Image, Text, Performance.

Negotiating Sexual Idioms: Image, Text, Performance.




Negotiating Sexual Idioms: Image, Text, Performance....
Sapphism on Screen: Lesbian Desire in French and Francophone Cinema

Sapphism on Screen: Lesbian Desire in French and Francophone Cinema


Lucille Cairns



Review Cairns provides us not only with a rich and extensive overview of her subject, but also with an apposite starting-...
Subversions of Verisimilitude: Reading Narrative from Balzac to Sartre

Subversions of Verisimilitude: Reading Narrative from Balzac to Sartre


Lawrence Schehr



Review Schehr's close analysis of the 'perverse paths' taken by writers from 1830-1939 makes this readable study insightf...
Macmillan: A Publishing Tradition from 1843

Macmillan: A Publishing Tradition from 1843


Elizabeth James



Review '...the range and diversity of these records are such that their material is pertinent to research into practicall...
The Long Arc of Justice: Lesbian and Gay Marriage, Equality, and Rights

The Long Arc of Justice: Lesbian and Gay Marriage, Equality, and Rights


Richard Mohr



Review A clever and insightful explanation...Throughout the book, Mohr makes his points well. (Johanna Lunglhofer Washingto...
Intimacies

Intimacies


Adam Phillips, Leo Bersani



Review “In this fascinating and disturbing book, two writers with prose styles and intellectual styles that are ...
Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, Straight Queer Theory: Essays on Abjection in Literature, Mass Culture, and Film

Masculinity, Psychoanalysis, Straight Queer Theory: Essays on Abjection in Literature, Mass Culture, and Film


Calvin Thomas



About the Author Calvin Thomas is Associate Professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta.  ...
Reading Chican@ Like a Queer: The De-Mastery of Desire (Cmas History, Culture, & Society Series)

Reading Chican@ Like a Queer: The De-Mastery of Desire (Cmas History, Culture, & Society Series)


Sandra K. Soto



About the Author SANDRA K. SOTO is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies, co-coordinator of the Chicana/Latin...
Gender Dilemmas in Children's Fiction

Gender Dilemmas in Children's Fiction


Kerry Mallan



About the Author KERRY MALLAN is Professor in Education at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. She co-edited ...
Lesbians in Television and Text after the Millennium

Lesbians in Television and Text after the Millennium


Rebecca Beirne



Review “This book constitutes a significant contribution to three critically related disciplines: lesbian and gay st...
The Living Eye (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature)

The Living Eye (Harvard Studies in Comparative Literature)


Jean Starobinski



Language Notes Text: English, French (translation) About the Author Arthur Goldhammer received the French-America...