Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire
10 best books like Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick): Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, The City and the Pillar, Honored Guest, 99 Stories of God, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction, Taking Care, Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability, Is the Rectum a Grave?: and Other Essays, Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
| Author | Audre Lorde |
| ISBN | 0895941228 |
in college, in the late 80s and early 90s, i discovered that i had two aunts. this is one (and this is another). aunt Audre intimidated me at first. she was a stern, moody, melancholy woman who had lived a life of so many ups and downs. but as i got to know her, her innate gentleness became clear. this was a woman...
Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
| Author | Judith Butler |
| ISBN | 0415389550 |
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Trouble has become one of the key works of contemporary feminist theory, and an essential work for anyone interested in the study of gender, queer theory, or the politics of sexuality in culture. This is the text where Judith Butler began to advance the ideas that...
| Author | Gore Vidal |
| ISBN | 1400030374 |
A literary cause célèbre when first published more than fifty years ago, Gore Vidal's now-classic The City and the Pillar stands as a landmark novel of the gay experience.
Jim, a handsome, all-American athlete, has always been shy around girls. But when he and his best friend, Bob, partake...
| Author | Joy Williams |
| ISBN | 1400095522 |
With her singular brand of gorgeous dark humor, Joy Williams explores the various ways–comic, tragic, and unnerving—we seek to accommodate diminishment and loss. A masseuse breaks her rich client's wrist bone, a friend visits at the hospital long after she is welcome, and a woman surrenders...
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Joy Williams has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life. In Ninety-Nine Stories of God, she takes on one of mankind’s most confounding preoccupations: the Supreme Being.
This series of short,...
The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
| Author | Michel Foucault |
| ISBN | 0679724699 |
This is a perfect example of the kind of writing characterised by Clive James as prose that ‘scorns the earth for fear of a puncture’. Foucault may be able to think – it's not easy to tell – but he certainly can't write.
Everywhere there is an apparent desire to render a simple thought impenetrable....
| Author | Joy Williams |
| ISBN | 0394729129 |
Joy Williams beloved dog turned on her. She had to put him down. I used to have a doberman named Sanchez a la Mancha. My brother rescued him from a dire situation. Sanchez was understandably crazy. A lot of other people's pets have passed into my company over the years and that's what happened there. I had...
| Author | Robert McRuer |
| ISBN | 0814757138 |
Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze...
| Author | Leo Bersani |
| ISBN | 0226043541 |
Over the course of a distinguished career, critic Leo Bersani has tackled a range of issues in his writing, and this collection gathers together some of his finest work. Beginning with one of the foundations of queer theory—his famous meditation on how sex leads to a shattering of the self, “Is...
Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
| Author | José Esteban Muñoz |
| ISBN | 0816630151 |
There is more to identity than identifying with one’s culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture—not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming...
| Author | Robert McRuer |
| ISBN | 0822351544 |
The title of this collection of essays, Sex and Disability, unites two terms that the popular imagination often regards as incongruous. The major texts in sexuality studies, including queer theory, rarely mention disability, and foundational texts in disability studies do not discuss sex in much...
The Trouble with Normal: Sex, Politics, and the Ethics of Queer Life
| Author | Michael Warner |
| ISBN | 0674004418 |
A comprehensive and incisive excoriation of same-sex marriage as a movement for "gay liberation." Warner's investigations of the interactions between gay shame and a push for same-sex marriage (see also Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore and Benjamin Shepard) is a useful lens to explore the millions...
Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration
| Author | David Wojnarowicz |
| ISBN | 0679732276 |
In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection of creative essays - a scathing, sexy, sublimely humorous and honest personal testimony to the "Fear of Diversity in America." From the author's violent childhood in suburbia to eventual homelessness...
