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Unsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San FranciscoUnsubmissive Women: Chinese Prostitutes in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco
Best Price: $16.95
The book gives a brief account of the experience of Chinese prostitutes in nineteenth-century...
Organized Womanhood: Cultural Politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1840-1920Organized Womanhood: Cultural Politics in the Pacific Northwest, 1840-1920
Best Price: $2.38
Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women?s WestWriting the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women?s West
Best Price: $19.95
A major goal of the New Western History is to chronicle the vast diversity of western...
Telling Truths in Church: Scandal, Flesh, and Christian SpeechTelling Truths in Church: Scandal, Flesh, and Christian Speech
Best Price: $8.50
Is the reform we have seen in the wake of the pedophilia scandals in the Catholic Church...
Les GuérillèresLes Guérillères
Best Price: $4.73
Published originally in 1963, it was groundbreaking in its exquisite,...


Looking At Gay & Lesbian LifeLooking At Gay & Lesbian Life
Best Price: $2.98
A great many exceptionally astute, historically accurate, ethically sound, and sexually accurate...
The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865-1895The Reconstruction of White Southern Womanhood, 1865-1895
Best Price: $16.50
This book is about the story of elite white southern women's successful quest in Virginia...
Everybody's Paid but the Teacher: The Teaching Profession and the Women's Movement (Reflective History, 7) (Reflective History Series)Everybody's Paid but the Teacher: The Teaching Profession and the Women's Movement (Reflective History, 7) (Reflective History Series)
Best Price: $28.35
Presenting a comprehensive look at twentieth-century collaborations between female teachers and...
Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (Gender and American Culture)Within the Plantation Household: Black and White Women of the Old South (Gender and American Culture)
Best Price: $76.32
Documenting the difficult class relations between women slaveholders and slave women, this study...
German Women's Movement: Class and Gender in Hanover, 1880-1933German Women's Movement: Class and Gender in Hanover, 1880-1933
Nancy Reagin analyzes the rhetoric, strategies, and programs of more than eighty bourgeois...


Sisters or Strangers?: Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History (Studies in Gender and History)Sisters or Strangers?: Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History (Studies in Gender and History)
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Spanning two hundred years of history from the nineteenth century to the 1990s, Sisters or...
My Tender Matador: A NovelMy Tender Matador: A Novel
Best Price: $3.98
Although consisting of only 170 pages, MY TENDER MATADOR is a fine, powerful novel. Based on a...
The Dissolution of Nicholas DeeThe Dissolution of Nicholas Dee
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"The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee: His Researches" started off very well. It...
Legislating Immorality: The Homosexual Movement Comes Out of the ClosetLegislating Immorality: The Homosexual Movement Comes Out of the Closet
Best Price: $3.48
With regards to faith, religion, and the Bible, it is interesting to see how the church can be a...
The Brokeback Book: From Story to Cultural PhenomenonThe Brokeback Book: From Story to Cultural Phenomenon
Best Price: $15.00
An American Western made by a Taiwanese director and filmed in Canada, Brokeback Mountain was a...

Becoming Two-Spirit: Gay Identity and Social Acceptance in Indian CountryBecoming Two-Spirit: Gay Identity and Social Acceptance in Indian Country
Best Price: $11.70
The only reason why I'm bringing this up first is because he starts the book this way. The...
Education, Research, and Practice in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Psychology: A Resource Manual (Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian & Gay Issues)Education, Research, and Practice in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgendered Psychology: A Resource Manual (Psychological Perspectives on Lesbian & Gay Issues)
Best Price: $154.00
An excellent resource manual of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered psychology with a...
Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youths and Adults: Knowledge for Human Services PracticeLesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youths and Adults: Knowledge for Human Services Practice
Best Price: $48.00
Research-based, sensitively and accessibly written, this book provides the caring practitioner...
Bisexuality: The Psychology and Politics of an Invisible MinorityBisexuality: The Psychology and Politics of an Invisible Minority
Best Price: $71.00
While written primarily for the professional community, especially therapists, I would recommend...
Beyond Identity Politics: Feminism, Power and PoliticsBeyond Identity Politics: Feminism, Power and Politics
Best Price: $71.99
Recent debates in contemporary feminist theory have been dominated by the relation between...

Androgyny and the Denial of Difference (Feminist Issues : Practice Politics, Theory)Androgyny and the Denial of Difference (Feminist Issues : Practice Politics, Theory)
Best Price: $16.95
New gift quality. In manufacture packaging. Never opened.
The Geography of Perversion: Male-To-Male Sexual Behavior Outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918The Geography of Perversion: Male-To-Male Sexual Behavior Outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918
Best Price: $15.83
Besides being an excellent exploration of how European scholars and visitors have defined and...
The Explanation For Everything: Essays on Sexual Subjectivity (Sexual Cultures Series)The Explanation For Everything: Essays on Sexual Subjectivity (Sexual Cultures Series)
Best Price: $23.00
An outstanding accomplishment. Everyone can enjoy and learn from this work.
Voted Out: The Psychological Consequences of Anti-Gay Politics (Qualitative Studies in Psychology)Voted Out: The Psychological Consequences of Anti-Gay Politics (Qualitative Studies in Psychology)
Best Price: $24.00
When, in 1992, the citizens of Colorado ratified Amendment 2, effectively stripping lesbians,...
Ethnographic Stud. Of Homesexu (Studies in Homosexuality)Ethnographic Stud. Of Homesexu (Studies in Homosexuality)
When one analyses the ethnographic material which the authors have collected, one can see the...

Women in Spiritual and Communitarian Societies in the United States (Utopianism and Communitarianism)Women in Spiritual and Communitarian Societies in the United States (Utopianism and Communitarianism)
Best Price: $49.00
This book contains a wide variety of essays dealing with the role of women in such communities...
A to Z of American Indian Women (A to Z of Women)A to Z of American Indian Women (A to Z of Women)
Best Price: $55.85
Now in a newly updated and expanded second edition, "A To Z Of American Indian Women"...
Danger Zones: Homosexuality, National Identity, and Mexican CultureDanger Zones: Homosexuality, National Identity, and Mexican Culture
Best Price: $1.03
Homosexuality has appeared as a secondary theme in the fictional works of numerous mainstream...
Living Through the Generations: Continuity and Change in Navajo Women's LivesLiving Through the Generations: Continuity and Change in Navajo Women's Lives
Best Price: $37.13
Navajo women?s lives reflect the numerous historical changes that have transformed ?the Navajo...
Communists, Cowboys, and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity in the Work of Arthur Miller and Tennessee WilliamsCommunists, Cowboys, and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity in the Work of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams
Best Price: $22.99

Gender and Nation (Politics and Culture series)Gender and Nation (Politics and Culture series)
Best Price: $37.09
Nira Yuval-Davis provides an authoritative overview and critique of writings on gender and...
Expecting Teryk: An Exceptional Path to ParenthoodExpecting Teryk: An Exceptional Path to Parenthood
Best Price: $24.92
The period just prior to the birth of one's child is a time of deep personal development....
Transuming Passion: Ganymede and the Erotics of HumanismTransuming Passion: Ganymede and the Erotics of Humanism
Best Price: $49.97
It is interesting to read this kind of book.The book's thesis is that the Renaissance...
Fetal Positions: Individualism, Science, Visuality (Writing Science)Fetal Positions: Individualism, Science, Visuality (Writing Science)
Best Price: $7.11
This compelling book uses 103 illustrations to argue that modes of visualizing science have...
Maps of Women's Goings and Stayings (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differenc)Maps of Women's Goings and Stayings (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differenc)
Best Price: $69.97
This book writes itself off the guide map of familiar literary forms and melts down conceptual...

Independence Park: The Lives of Gay Men in Israel (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differenc)Independence Park: The Lives of Gay Men in Israel (Contraversions: Jews and Other Differenc)
Best Price: $14.50
This book presents a series of interviews conducted in the early 1990's with twelve...
Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity (Asian America)Writing Manhood in Black and Yellow: Ralph Ellison, Frank Chin, and the Literary Politics of Identity (Asian America)
Best Price: $19.92
This book examines cultural representations of African American and Asian American masculinity,...
Revolutionary Womanhood: Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser's Egypt (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and I)Revolutionary Womanhood: Feminisms, Modernity, and the State in Nasser's Egypt (Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and I)
Best Price: $17.86
The first major historical account of gender politics during the Nasser era, Revolutionary...
AIDS--The Literary ResponseAIDS--The Literary Response
Best Price: $3.24
The Effects of War on Children: A Special Issue of peace and Conflict (Special Issue of "Peace & Conflict")The Effects of War on Children: A Special Issue of peace and Conflict (Special Issue of "Peace & Conflict")
This special issue is a collection of case studies that focus on historical events and documents...

Stein, Bishop, and Rich: Lyrics of Love, War, and PlaceStein, Bishop, and Rich: Lyrics of Love, War, and Place
In an insightful and provocative juxtaposition, Margaret Dickie examines the poetry of three...
Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South (Caravan Book)Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South (Caravan Book)
Best Price: $22.64
E. Patrick Johnson's new book SWEET TEA purports to dignify the lives of Black Gay men from...
The Enclosed Garden: Women and Community in the Evangelical South, 1830-1900 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)The Enclosed Garden: Women and Community in the Evangelical South, 1830-1900 (Fred W. Morrison Series in Southern Studies)
Best Price: $4.92
The southern women's reform movement emerged late in the nineteenth century, several decades...
Virgil's Aeneid: Interpretation and InfluenceVirgil's Aeneid: Interpretation and Influence
Best Price: $29.71
In this collection of twelve of his essays, distinguished Virgil scholar Michael Putnam examines...
Toward an Intellectual History of Women: Essays By Linda K. Kerber (Gender and American Culture)Toward an Intellectual History of Women: Essays By Linda K. Kerber (Gender and American Culture)
Best Price: $6.98
Even a brief reading will enlighten and inform mankind that women are not necessarily rooted to...

My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor HistoryMy Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History
Best Price: $22.29
I met Allan Bérubé on several occasions. He was charming, intelligent,...
The Rights of Lesbians and Gay Men, Third Edition: The Basic ACLU Guide to a Gay Person's Rights (ACLU Handbook)The Rights of Lesbians and Gay Men, Third Edition: The Basic ACLU Guide to a Gay Person's Rights (ACLU Handbook)
Best Price: $1.60
In the post Romer vs. Evans era (1996) this book is out-dated. The authors are experts in their...
Women in Korean PoliticsWomen in Korean Politics
Best Price: $15.69
A study of women in South Korean politics. Through life histories elicited by interviews and...
The Year Of The Woman: Myths And Realities (Transforming American Politics)The Year Of The Woman: Myths And Realities (Transforming American Politics)
The 1992 American election saw more women running for office, at both local and national level,...
Androgyny and the Denial of Difference (Feminist Issues : Practice Politics, Theory)Androgyny and the Denial of Difference (Feminist Issues : Practice Politics, Theory)

Feminist Activism In The Supreme Court: Legal Mobilization And The Women's Legal Education And Action Fund (Law and Society Series)Feminist Activism In The Supreme Court: Legal Mobilization And The Women's Legal Education And Action Fund (Law and Society Series)
Best Price: $29.68
Since 1980, the Canadian women?s movement has been an active participant in constitutional...
Gay Power: An American RevolutionGay Power: An American Revolution
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I started reading this book thinking it was on how to more active in obtaining our right as...
History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous: From the Beginning (Haworth Series in Family and Consumer Issues in Health)History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous: From the Beginning (Haworth Series in Family and Consumer Issues in Health)
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The History of Gay People in Alcoholics Anonymous documents and honors the ways thousands of...
Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women (S U N Y Series in Oral and Public History)Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women (S U N Y Series in Oral and Public History)
Voices of Resistance is an incredibly rich account of the role that Moroccan women played within...
AIDS And American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics Of An Epidemic (S U N Y Series in the Sociology of Culture)AIDS And American Apocalypticism: The Cultural Semiotics Of An Epidemic (S U N Y Series in the Sociology of Culture)
Best Price: $187.93

The Incest Theme in Literature and Legend: Fundamentals of a Psychology of Literary CreationThe Incest Theme in Literature and Legend: Fundamentals of a Psychology of Literary Creation
Best Price: $86.95
"Among the strictly scientific applications of analysis to literature, Rank's...
Blessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic FranceBlessed Motherhood, Bitter Fruit: Nelly Roussel and the Politics of Female Pain in Third Republic France
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One of French feminism's most courageous public figures has received relatively little...
Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965Higher Education for Women in Postwar America, 1945-1965
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This history explores the nature of postwar advocacy for women's higher education,...
Jolly Fellows: Male Milieus in Nineteenth-Century America (Gender Relations in the American Experience)Jolly Fellows: Male Milieus in Nineteenth-Century America (Gender Relations in the American Experience)
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"Jolly fellows," a term that gained currency in the nineteenth century, referred to...
Women's Lives: The View from the Threshold (Alexander Lectures)Women's Lives: The View from the Threshold (Alexander Lectures)
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This book represents Heilbrun's effort to show how the feminism begun in the sixties and...

DischargeDischarge
Best Price: $32.99
This author has always had a knack for seeing the interaction of humor and pathos in life. All...
Gays and Grays: The Story of the Gay Community at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic ParishGays and Grays: The Story of the Gay Community at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Parish
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The book Gays and Grays tells the story of the life of the Roman Catholic parish Most Holy...
Moral Argument, Religion, and Same-Sex Marriage: Advancing the Public GoodMoral Argument, Religion, and Same-Sex Marriage: Advancing the Public Good
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The diverse expert contributors to this volume from the fields of politics and law use moral...
Trenekis of HieraTrenekis of Hiera
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Mark Ian Kendrick, author of the gay-themed scifi novels Stealing Some Time:Volume 1 (Parts 1...
Making of a Gay Asian Community : An Oral History of Pre-AIDS Los Angeles (Pacific Formations : Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives)Making of a Gay Asian Community : An Oral History of Pre-AIDS Los Angeles (Pacific Formations : Global Relations in Asian and Pacific Perspectives)
Best Price: $116.73
Eric Marcus records that men of color were questioned when they attended Mattachine events...

Diversity in the Power Elite: How It Happened, Why It MattersDiversity in the Power Elite: How It Happened, Why It Matters
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This book looks systematically at the extent to which Jews, women, African Americans, Latinos,...
The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China (Asian Voices)The Subject of Gender: Daughters and Mothers in Urban China (Asian Voices)
Best Price: $84.97
Women in urban China have lived through decades of political turbulence, extensive...
Love in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and LiteratureLove in a Dark Time: And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and Literature
Best Price: $49.98
This is my first nonfiction read by Toibin. I've read three of his novels and think he gets...
Kristeva, Psychoanalysis and Culture (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy)Kristeva, Psychoanalysis and Culture (Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy)
Best Price: $84.11
Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic ModernityEileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity
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This is the first book-length feminist analysis of Eileen Gray's work, "Eileen Gray and...

Constructions of ColonialismConstructions of Colonialism
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One of the most famous shipwreck sagas of the 19th century took place on the tropical coast of...
Edwardian Ladies and Imperial Power (Women, Power and Politics)Edwardian Ladies and Imperial Power (Women, Power and Politics)
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This book evaluates the nature and impact of organized female imperialism in Edwardian Britain....
Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire and the Culture of TravelHome and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire and the Culture of TravelWomen, Food and FamiliesWomen, Food and Families
Ce livre est d'un intérêt véritable car c'est l'un des...
Shakespeare's Queer Children: Sexual Politics and Contemporary CultureShakespeare's Queer Children: Sexual Politics and Contemporary Culture
Best Price: $27.95
"Shakespeare's Queer Children" argues that Shakespeare is not the exclusive...

Territories of Desire in Queer Culture: Refiguring the Contemporary BoundariesTerritories of Desire in Queer Culture: Refiguring the Contemporary Boundaries
This book engages with, and develops, current debates about desire and sexual identification by...
Gender and Colonial SpaceGender and Colonial Space
Best Price: $21.09
Sara Mills offers a trenchant analysis of the complexities of social relations--including...
Gay Marriage (At Issue)Gay Marriage (At Issue)
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Ventura HighwayVentura Highway
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Ventura Highway is a story of the trials and tribulations in finding love and maintaining a...
Chasing LightningChasing Lightning
Best Price: $34.99
When I bought this book, I was a little daunted by its 400+ pages. Too many lesbian novels of...

Boyfriend MaterialBoyfriend Material
Best Price: $5.95
Jon Jeffrey is a breeze to read, letting his characters take a front seat to his easy-does-it...
Between Gay and Straight: Understanding Friendship Across Sexual Orientation (Ethnographic Alternatives)Between Gay and Straight: Understanding Friendship Across Sexual Orientation (Ethnographic Alternatives)
Best Price: $86.27
My name is Tim Mahn. I'm one of Lisa's and her husband, Doug's, closest friends, a...
Sparkle: The Queerest Book You'll Ever LoveSparkle: The Queerest Book You'll Ever Love
Best Price: $18.45
This book has all the potential for becoming the next gay cult classic! Because if you read it,...
Men Together: Portraits Of Love, Commitment, And LifeMen Together: Portraits Of Love, Commitment, And Life
Best Price: $17.24
As a 21 year old gay man, it is heartwarming and touching to see a such a beautiful coffee table...
Sandakan Brothel #8: An Episode in the History of Lower-Class Japanese WomenSandakan Brothel #8: An Episode in the History of Lower-Class Japanese Women
Best Price: $23.84
I wanted to give a short summary of the Geisha's genre, as it has become somewhat more well...

Sandakan Brothel No. 8: An Episode in the History of Lower-Class Japanese WomenSandakan Brothel No. 8: An Episode in the History of Lower-Class Japanese Women
Best Price: $37.50
The remarkable, memorable and poignant story is about Brothel Number 8 in Sandakan, a port town...
Rural Women in Urban China: Gender, Migration, And Social Change (East Gate Books)Rural Women in Urban China: Gender, Migration, And Social Change (East Gate Books)
Best Price: $90.95
Love in a Dark Time : And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and LiteratureLove in a Dark Time : And Other Explorations of Gay Lives and LiteratureFeminist Campaigns for Birth Control and Abortion Rights in Britain (Studies in British History, V. 69)Feminist Campaigns for Birth Control and Abortion Rights in Britain (Studies in British History, V. 69)
Best Price: $109.95
This title provides an in-depth analysis of two feminist campaigns occuring in Britain in the...
Between the Queen and the Cabby: Olympe De Gouges's Rights of Woman (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas)Between the Queen and the Cabby: Olympe De Gouges's Rights of Woman (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas)
Best Price: $79.95
Olympe de Gouges is largely known today for having published a feminist adaptation of the...

Androgyny and the Denial of Difference (Feminist Issues : Practice Politics, Theory)Androgyny and the Denial of Difference (Feminist Issues : Practice Politics, Theory)
Best Price: $16.95
New gift quality. In manufacture packaging. Never opened.
The Geography of Perversion: Male-To-Male Sexual Behavior Outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918The Geography of Perversion: Male-To-Male Sexual Behavior Outside the West and the Ethnographic Imagination, 1750-1918
Best Price: $15.83
Besides being an excellent exploration of how European scholars and visitors have defined and...
The Explanation For Everything: Essays on Sexual Subjectivity (Sexual Cultures Series)The Explanation For Everything: Essays on Sexual Subjectivity (Sexual Cultures Series)
Best Price: $23.00
An outstanding accomplishment. Everyone can enjoy and learn from this work.
Voted Out: The Psychological Consequences of Anti-Gay Politics (Qualitative Studies in Psychology)Voted Out: The Psychological Consequences of Anti-Gay Politics (Qualitative Studies in Psychology)
Best Price: $24.00
When, in 1992, the citizens of Colorado ratified Amendment 2, effectively stripping lesbians,...
Ethnographic Stud. Of Homesexu (Studies in Homosexuality)Ethnographic Stud. Of Homesexu (Studies in Homosexuality)
When one analyses the ethnographic material which the authors have collected, one can see the...

Women in Spiritual and Communitarian Societies in the United States (Utopianism and Communitarianism)Women in Spiritual and Communitarian Societies in the United States (Utopianism and Communitarianism)
Best Price: $49.00
This book contains a wide variety of essays dealing with the role of women in such communities...
A to Z of American Indian Women (A to Z of Women)A to Z of American Indian Women (A to Z of Women)
Best Price: $55.85
Now in a newly updated and expanded second edition, "A To Z Of American Indian Women"...
Danger Zones: Homosexuality, National Identity, and Mexican CultureDanger Zones: Homosexuality, National Identity, and Mexican Culture
Best Price: $1.03
Homosexuality has appeared as a secondary theme in the fictional works of numerous mainstream...
Living Through the Generations: Continuity and Change in Navajo Women's LivesLiving Through the Generations: Continuity and Change in Navajo Women's Lives
Best Price: $37.13
Navajo women?s lives reflect the numerous historical changes that have transformed ?the Navajo...
Communists, Cowboys, and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity in the Work of Arthur Miller and Tennessee WilliamsCommunists, Cowboys, and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity in the Work of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams
Best Price: $22.99
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