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Queer interventions

Queer Renaissance historiography : backward gaze / edited by Vin Nardizzi, Stephen Guy-Bray, Will Stockton.

Homosexuality in French history and culture / Jeffrey Merrick, Michael Sibalis, editors.

Homophobia : a history / Byrne Fone.

Haworth gay & lesbian studies

Lytton Strachey and the search for modern sexual identity : the last eminent Victorian / Julie Anne Taddeo.

Chicago series on sexuality, history, and society

A history of bisexuality / Steven Angelides.

"Sexual Politics laid the foundation for subsequent feminist scholarship by showing how cultural discourse reflects a systematized subjugation and exploitation of women. Millett demonstrates in detail how patriarchy's attitudes and systems penetrate literature, philosophy, psychology, and politics. Her incendiary work rocked the foundations of the literary canon by castigating time-honored classics - from D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover to Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead - for their use of sex to degrade and undermine women." "A new introduction to this edition draws attention to some of the forms patriarchy has taken recently in consolidating its oppressive and dangerous control."--Jacket.

Sexual politics / Kate Millett ; foreword by Catharine A. MacKinnon ; afterword by Rebecca Mead.

Coleção Parcours.

Parcours

199 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.

Gender trouble down under : Australian masculinities / David Coad.

Born to be gay : a history of homosexuality / William Naphy.

"In this original and unusual work, Lucy Chesser explores the persistent recurrence of cross-dressing and gender inversion within Australian cultural life. Examples of cross-dressing are to be found in almost every area of classic Australian historical enquiry, including Aboriginal-European relations and conflict, convict societies, the gold rushes, bushranging, the 1890s and its nationalist fiction, and World War One. This book compares and contrasts sustained life-long impersonations where women lived, worked and sometimes married as men, with other forms of cross-dressing such as public masquerades, cross-dressing on the stage, and the prosecution of men who sought sexual encounters while disguised as women"--Provided by publisher.

Parting with my sex : cross-dressing, inversion and sexuality in Australian cultural life / Lucy Chesser.

"In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this book examines a period in which increased visibility made acceptance of homosexuality one of the measures of modernity. Woods shines a revealing light on the diverse, informal networks of gay people in the arts and other creative fields. Uneasily called "the Homintern" (an echo of Lenin's "Comintern") by those suspicious of an international homosexual conspiracy, such networks connected gay writers, actors, artists, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, politicians, and spies. While providing some defense against dominant heterosexual exclusion, the grouping brought solidarity, celebrated talent, and, in doing so, invigorated the majority culture. Woods introduces an enormous cast of gifted and extraordinary characters, most of them operating with surprising openness; but also explores such issues as artistic influence, the coping strategies of minorities, the hypocrisies of conservatism, and the effects of positive and negative discrimination. Traveling from Harlem in the 1910s to 1920s Paris, 1930s Berlin, 1950s New York and beyond, this sharply observed, warm-spirited book presents a surpassing portrait of twentieth-century gay culture and the men and women who both redefined themselves and changed history"--

xv, 421 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

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Queer Renaissance historiography : backward gaze / edited by Vin Nardizzi, Stephen Guy-Bray, Will Stockton.

Homosexuality in French history and culture / Jeffrey Merrick, Michael Sibalis, editors.

Homophobia : a history / Byrne Fone.

Lytton Strachey and the search for modern sexual identity : the last eminent Victorian / Julie Anne Taddeo.

A history of bisexuality / Steven Angelides.

Sexual politics / Kate Millett ; foreword by Catharine A. MacKinnon ; afterword by Rebecca Mead.

Gender trouble down under : Australian masculinities / David Coad.

Born to be gay : a history of homosexuality / William Naphy.

Parting with my sex : cross-dressing, inversion and sexuality in Australian cultural life / Lucy Chesser.

Homintern : how gay culture liberated the modern world / Gregory Woods.

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Queer Renaissance historiography : backward gaze / edited by Vin Nardizzi, Stephen Guy-Bray, Will Stockton.

Homosexuality in French history and culture / Jeffrey Merrick, Michael Sibalis, editors.

Homophobia : a history / Byrne Fone.

Lytton Strachey and the search for modern sexual identity : the last eminent Victorian / Julie Anne Taddeo.

A history of bisexuality / Steven Angelides.

Sexual politics / Kate Millett ; foreword by Catharine A. MacKinnon ; afterword by Rebecca Mead.

Gender trouble down under : Australian masculinities / David Coad.

Born to be gay : a history of homosexuality / William Naphy.

Parting with my sex : cross-dressing, inversion and sexuality in Australian cultural life / Lucy Chesser.

Homintern : how gay culture liberated the modern world / Gregory Woods.

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