51 books (3 pages) in this category
Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy
by Marcia M. Gallo
<p>In <em>"No One Helped"</em> Marcia M. Gallo examines one of America’s most infamous true-crime stories: the 1964 rape and murder of Catherine "Kitty" Genovese in a middle-class neighborhood of Queens, New York. Front-page reports in the New ...
ISBN: 9780801455896
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eBookThe Letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout
by Marilyn Schuster
<p>This book will appeal to anyone interested in writer’s lives, literary studies, queer and gender studies, and the history of LGBT communities and political activism in North America.</p> ...
ISBN: 9780774835466
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eBookby Joan Nestle
<p>A proud working class woman, an "out" lesbian long before the Rainbow revolution, Joan Nestle has stood at the forefront of American freedom struggles from the McCarthy era to the present day. Available for the first time in years, ...
ISBN: 9781573448109
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eBookHomosexuality and the Problematics of Exile
by Karl Posso
<p>"The controversial works of Brazilian authors Silviano Santiago(1936-) and Caio Fernando Abreu (1948-96) offer distinctive but complementary explorations of male homosexual subjectivities formulated through displacement, exile and the ...
ISBN: 9781351197212
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eBookQueer Literary Transmission
by Kevin Ohi
<DIV><P>Literary texts that address tradition and the transmission of knowledge often seem concerned less with preservation than with loss, recurrently describing scenarios of what author Kevin Ohi terms “thwarted transmission.” Such scenes, ...
ISBN: 9781452944333
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eBookCanadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging
by OmiSoore H. Dryden & Suzanne Lenon
<p>Offering a fresh analysis of the complexity of queer politics and activisms within a Canadian context, this book will interest activists and scholars from a broad range of disciplines including: queer and sexuality studies, women and gender ...
ISBN: 9780774829465
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eBookDocuments of the LGBT Movement
by Chuck Stewart
<p>While most would think of the modern Gay Rights Movement as beginning in the 1960s, in reality, the issue of nonheterosexual human behavior within society and the campaign to achieve equality and acceptance have existed far earlier. Beginning
ISBN: 9781440855023
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eBookSelected Works from the 2013 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa
by T. Jackie Cuevas, Trevor Boffone, Jody A. Briones & others
<p>A collection of diverse essays and poetry that offer scholarly and creative responses inspired by the life and work of Gloria Anzaldúa, selected from the 2013 meeting of The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa.</p> ...
ISBN: 9781939904188
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eBookby Steven Louis Brawley & St. Louis LGBT History Project
In the late 19th century, St. Louis—America’s fourth-largest city—was a hub of robust commerce and risqué entertainment. It provided an oasis for those who lived “in the shadows.” Since 1764, the Gateway to the West’s LGBT community has ...
ISBN: 9781439655092
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eBookMobilizing for LGBT Equality at Christian Colleges and Universities
by Jonathan S. Coley
<p>Although the LGBT movement has made rapid gains in the United States, LGBT people continue to face discrimination in faith communities. In this book, sociologist Jonathan S. Coley documents why and how student activists mobilize for greater ...
ISBN: 9781469636238
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eBookGrowing Up in a Lesbian Home
by Lara Lillibridge
<p><strong>Award-Winning Finalist in the LGBTQ Non-Fiction category of the 2018 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest</strong></p> <p><strong>An honest, unfiltered memoir about a girl with an unconventional family.</strong><br ...
ISBN: 9781510723924
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eBookGlimpses of Fifty Years (Abridged, Annotated)
by Frances E. Willard
<p>"Woman, like man, should be freely permitted to do whatever she can do well."<br> <br> So said Frances E. Willard, who lived her life in the firm belief of this principle and who was instrumental in the passage of two amendments to the U.S. ...
ISBN: 1230001448689
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eBookby S. B. Sheeran
<p data-version="1.1">Twenty-four year old law intern Karen Waite had always been uptight, intellectually attuned and sexually jaded. Never one to put frenzied emotions into her day to day work, she assumes hers is the epitome of living ...
ISBN: 9781515050797
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eBookIts Nature and Causes
by Donald J. West
<p>The subject of homosexuality, and especially male homosexuality, has received a great deal of publicity in England and America. The furor began with Kinsey's famous reports on sexual behavior, which brought out the fact that a far higher ...
ISBN: 9781351515221
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eBookNovel LBQ Identities in Four Small Cities
by Japonica Brown-Saracino
<p>We like to think of ourselves as possessing an essential self, a core identity that is who we <em>really</em> are, regardless of where we live, work, or play. But places actually make us much more than we might think, argues Japonica ...
ISBN: 9780226361390
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eBookby Djuna Barnes
<p>"Lesbianism, its flories and sorows, is the subject and quest of this marvelously erverse sentimental journey by Nightwood's author... A striking lesbian mainfesto and a deft parody."<br /> -<em>Library Journal</em><br /> Blending
ISBN: 9780814789759
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eBookIn Victoria in the 1990s
by Jean Taylor
<p>Introduction: Lesbophobia is a Social Disease - Jean Taylor. I have not included every single gathering, meeting, demo, rally, book launch or conference held during the 1990s. Those events I have included are mainly the ones of personal ...
ISBN: 9781925457384
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eBookLGBTQs, Media and Culture in Europe
by Alexander Dhoest, Lukasz Szulc & Bart Eeckhout
<p>Media matter, particularly to social minorities like lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people. Rather than one homogenised idea of the ‘global gay’, what we find today is a range of historically and culturally specific expressions
ISBN: 9781317233121
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eBookLesbians and Community across Canada, 1964-84
by Liz Millward
<p>In the 1960s, a youthful and ambitious lesbian movement began taking shape in Canada. After decades of being pathologized, disparaged, or erased from public view, lesbians were ready to make a scene – both by calling attention to themselves ...
ISBN: 9780774830690
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eBookThe First Ten Years of the WOW Café Theater
by Jill Dolan
<p>The women’s experimental theater space called the WOW Café (Women’s One World) has been a vital part of New York’s downtown theater scene since 1980. Since that time, WOW has provided a place for feminist and particularly lesbian theater ...
ISBN: 9780472121496
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