Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship
10 best books like Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship (Kath Weston): The Transgender Studies Reader, PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality, That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation, Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law, The Joy of Gay Sex, Rat Bohemia, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970, Virtually Normal, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader, Truth Serum
The Transgender Studies Reader
| Author | Susan Stryker |
| ISBN | 0415947081 |
Transgender studies is the latest area of academic inquiry to grow out of the exciting nexus of queer theory, feminist studies, and the history of sexuality. Because transpeople challenge our most fundamental assumptions about the relationship between bodies, desire, and identity, the field is...
PoMoSexuals: Challenging Assumptions About Gender and Sexuality
| Author | Carol Queen |
| ISBN | 1573440744 |
This is probably the best book about gender and sexuality I've ever read. It discusses the many different facets of human sexuality that aren't necessarily mapped out by what you have between your legs or on your chest. In a world of cookie cutter voidoids who identify themselves purely by their sexuality...
That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation
| Author | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore |
| ISBN | 1932360565 |
As the gay mainstream prioritizes the attainment of straight privilege over all else, it drains queer identity of any meaning, relevance, or cultural value, writes Matt Bernstein Sycamore, aka Mattilda, editor of That's Revolting!. This timely collection of essays by writers such as Patrick Califia,...
Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law
| Author | Nancy D. Polikoff |
| ISBN | 0807044326 |
The debate over marriage equality for same-sex couples rages across the country. Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage boldly moves the discussion forward by focusing on the larger, more fundamental issue of marriage and the law. The root problem, asserts law professor and LGBT rights activist Nancy...
| Author | Charles Silverstein |
| ISBN | 0060012749 |
For a new century and a new generation of readers comes a fully revised and expanded edition of a classic guide to gay sex, love, and life.
Invaluable as a sex guide, a resource on building self-esteem, and a trusted aid for coming out of the closet, The Joy of Gay Sex covers the ins and outs of gay...
| Author | Sarah Schulman |
| ISBN | 0525937900 |
First published in 1995, this award-winning novel is a bold, achingly honest story set in the “rat bohemia” of New York City, whose huddled masses include gay men and lesbians abandoned by their families and forced to find new bonds with one another in the wake of this loss. Navigating the currents...
| Author | John D'Emilio |
| ISBN | 0226142671 |
With thorough documentation of the oppression of homosexuals and biographical sketches of the lesbian and gay heroes who helped the contemporary gay culture to emerge, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities supplies the definitive analysis of the homophile movement in the U.S. from 1940 to 1970....
| Author | Andrew Sullivan |
| ISBN | 0679746145 |
No subject has divided contemporary America more bitterly than homosexuality. Addressing the full range of the debate in this pathbreaking book, Andrew Sullivan, the former editor of The New Republic, restores both reason and humanity to the discussion over how a predominantly heterosexual...
| Author | Henry Abelove |
| ISBN | 0415905192 |
Bringing together forty-two groundbreaking essays--many of them already classics--
The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader
provides a much-needed introduction to the contemporary state of lesbian/gay studies, extensively illustrating the range, scope, diversity, appeal, and power of the work...
| Author | Bernard Cooper |
| ISBN | 0395859948 |
Cooper offers his most moving and poignant effort yet. In a memoir at once affecting, witty, and dead-on accurate, he gives us the chance to accompany him as he reinvents memory - from Theresa Sanchez, the worldly and sophisticated girl who sat behind him in ninth-grade algebra, to the events surrounding...
| Author | Nikki Sullivan |
| ISBN | 0814798411 |
Explores the ways in which sexuality, subjectivity and sociality have been discursively produced in various historical and cultural contexts
The book begins by putting gay and lesbian sexuality and politics in historical context and demonstrates how and why queer theory emerged in the...
Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America
| Author | Mary L. Gray |
| ISBN | 0814731937 |
Winner of the 2009 Ruth Benedict Prize for Outstanding Monograph from the Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists
Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association, Sociology of Sexualities Section
Winner of the 2010 Congress Inaugural Qualitative...
| Author | Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick |
| ISBN | 0822314215 |
Tendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and truthfulness...
In this pathbreaking work, Jasbir K. Puar argues that configurations of sexuality, race, gender, nation, class, and ethnicity are realigning in relation to contemporary forces of securitization, counterterrorism, and nationalism. She examines how liberal politics incorporate certain queer...
| Author | Tim Dean |
| ISBN | 0226139395 |
Barebacking—when gay men deliberately abandon condoms and embrace unprotected sex—has incited a great deal of shock, outrage, anger, and even disgust, but very little contemplation. Purposely flying in the face of decades of safe-sex campaigning and HIV/AIDS awareness initiatives, barebacking...
| Author | Karla Jay |
| ISBN | 0465083668 |
Karla Jay's memoir of an age whose tumultuous social and political movements fundamentally reshaped American culture takes readers from her early days in the 1968 Columbia University student riots to her post-college involvement in New York radical women's groups and the New York Gay Liberation...
| Author | Martin F. Manalansan IV |
| ISBN | 0822332175 |
A vivid ethnography of the global and transnational dimensions of gay identity as lived by Filipino immigrants in New York City, Global Divas challenges beliefs about the progressive development of a gay world and the eventual assimilation of all queer folks into gay modernity. Insisting that gay...
Queer Theory: An Introduction
| Author | Annamarie Jagose |
| ISBN | 0814742343 |
In Queer Theory: An Introduction, Annamarie Jagose provides a clear and concise explanation of queer theory, tracing it as part of an intriguing history of same-sex love over the last century, from mid-century homophile movements to gay liberation, the women's movement and lesbian feminism, to...
Imagining Transgender: An Ethnography of a Category
| Author | David Valentine |
| ISBN | 0822338696 |
Imagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Embraced by activists in the early 1990s to advocate for gender-variant people, the category quickly gained momentum in public health,...
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...
In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives
| Author | J. Jack Halberstam |
| ISBN | 0814735851 |
In his first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, J. Jack Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. He presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative...
Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader
| Author | Gayle S. Rubin |
| ISBN | 0822349868 |
Deviations is the definitive collection of writing by Gayle S. Rubin, a pioneering theorist and activist in feminist, lesbian and gay, queer, and sexuality studies since the 1970s. Rubin first rose to prominence in 1975 with the publication of “The Traffic in Women,” an essay that had a galvanizing...
Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories
| Author | Elizabeth Freeman |
| ISBN | 0822348047 |
Time Binds is a powerful argument that temporal and sexual dissonance are intertwined, and that the writing of history can be both embodied and erotic. Challenging queer theory’s recent emphasis on loss and trauma, Elizabeth Freeman foregrounds bodily pleasure in the experience and representation...
