Nonfiction Books


Gay Skins Class Masculinity and Queer AP (Sexual Politics) Contrary to what the reviewer below has stated, I would say it is debatable whether or not gay...	What About the Children: Sons and Daughters of Lesbian and Gay Parents Talk About Their Lives (Sexual Politics) Best Price: $18.95 An account of the impact of growing up in a different kind of family, this book provides...	Reclaiming Genders Best Price: $68.36 An interdisciplinary work bringing together an international group of transgender writers, this...	Beyond Acceptance: Parents of Lesbians and Gays Talk About Their Experiences Best Price: $0.99 I was pretty impressed with this book as I've now read a couple gay related books. It was...	Under the Rainbow: Growing Up Gay (Stonewall Inn Classics) Best Price: $14.00 This is a sweet, wonderful, easily readable book about one man's life before and after...



Gay Body: A Journey Through Shadow To Self Best Price: $7.75 The spiritual journey to adulthood is, for most gay men, particularly difficult. Often suffering...	Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up with Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parents Best Price: $4.50 As the bi-lesbian poly pagan mother of a small child, I know my daughter will soon encounter...	Towards Women's Strategies for the 1990s: Challenging Government and the State Provides a collection of essays which each examine a different sociological aspect of women and...	Love Between Equals a Philosophical This book is a philosophical study of love between equals, intended for the general reader. The...	Universal Difference Best Price: $137.05 The author argues that rather than seeing liberalism as exclusionary of women's specificity,...



Deconstructing Images of the Turkish Wom This volume examines common stereotypes surrounding Turkish women. Encompassing fields of study...	Feminism, Animals and Science: The Naming of the Shrew Best Price: $98.15 Beginning with some ways in which "animals" are defined by science, and with feminist...	Men Engaging Feminisms: Pro-Feminism, Backlashes and Schooling (Feminist Educational Thinking) This text is about men's responses to feminist reforms in schooling. It documents the...	Action Research For Gender Equity (Feminist Educational Thinking) Best Price: $49.95 This book is about action research as a method for change and as a means of taking up feminist...	What About the Boys?: Issues of Masculinity in Schools Best Price: $33.92 * How can teachers address the challenge of educating boys for life in the 21st century? * What...

Becoming a Man Best Price: $10.86 He grew up in a small town in New England in the 1950's, watching lassie, going to church,...	The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up Best Price: $3.99 Having just finished this delightful book, I decided to post a review. As I read over the...	The Greeks and Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World Best Price: $95.18 I found serious problems with this (much-anticipated) book in the very first pages. The first...	Living to Tell About It Best Price: $8.49 The statistics about young black men are familiar; homicide is their #1 killer, one fourth are...	Queer in America Best Price: $3.98 Signorile's ground-breaking text on the Closet and all its horror should be fundamental...

Gender Inequality in the Life Course: Social Change and Stability in West Germany, 1975-1995 (The Life Course and Aging) Best Price: $53.95 How do women fare in a society that is characterized by a set of institutions that promote...	Nineteenth Century Writings on Homosexuality	Gay Cuban Nation Best Price: $23.95 Emilio Bejel's sensible analyses of Cuban fiction (on page and screen) shows that the...	Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature Best Price: $15.00 For those with a general background in literature and in law, this book is straightforward and...	Peacocks, Chameleons, Centaurs: Gay Suburbia and the Grammar of Social Identity Best Price: $20.24 While there has been a marked increase in the visibility of gay men in popular culture, from...

Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking Best Price: $14.85 Thank you, Tim Dean, for this brave book. I read it after Beyond Sexuality, which I also liked...	Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis Best Price: $59.99 Why has homosexuality always fascinated and vexed psychoanalysis? This groundbreaking collection...	Identities (A Critical Inquiry Book) Best Price: $10.10 The study of identity crosses all disciplinary borders to address such issues as the multiple...	How to Do the History of Homosexuality Best Price: $25.99 ... Next to the devastatingly landmark work of George Chauncey at the University of Chicago and...	How to Do the History of Homosexuality Best Price: $24.43 There seems to be some confusion regarding who David Halperin is and what he has written. ...

Alternative Social Services for Women Best Price: $27.50	The Columbia Reader on Lesbians & Gay Men in Media, Society, and Politics A comprehensive introduction to lesbian and gay studies for students and general readers. More...	Romantic Genius Best Price: $49.48 Surprisingly little has been written about homosexuality in British Romantic writing, and,...	Lesbians, Gays, and the Empowerment Perspective Best Price: $6.00 The most comprehensive resource to date on the methods of empowerment with lesbian and gay...	Families We Choose Best Price: $19.39 As a gay man, the cover photo on this revised edition (by Chantel Regnault) spoke volumes to...

Engendering Citizenship in Egypt Best Price: $23.50 I read this book to better my understanding of issues in the Middle East, and more specificly,...	Gays and Lesbians in the Democratic Process Best Price: $32.44 This anthology made a good effort in trying to chart new territory and wed public policy...	Feminist Consequences Best Price: $14.74 Exploring the status of feminism in this "postfeminist" age, this sophisticated...	Transgender 101: A Simple Guide to a Complex Issue Best Price: $65.00 Written by a social worker, popular educator, and member of the transgender community, this...	GAY AND GRAY Best Price: $83.51 In the absence of accurate information, American culture has upheld a distorted view of what it...

Deconstructing Images of the Turkish Wom This volume examines common stereotypes surrounding Turkish women. Encompassing fields of study...	Feminism, Animals and Science: The Naming of the Shrew Best Price: $98.15 Beginning with some ways in which "animals" are defined by science, and with feminist...	Men Engaging Feminisms: Pro-Feminism, Backlashes and Schooling (Feminist Educational Thinking) This text is about men's responses to feminist reforms in schooling. It documents the...	Action Research For Gender Equity (Feminist Educational Thinking) Best Price: $49.95 This book is about action research as a method for change and as a means of taking up feminist...	What About the Boys?: Issues of Masculinity in Schools Best Price: $33.92 * How can teachers address the challenge of educating boys for life in the 21st century? * What...

Becoming a Man Best Price: $10.86 He grew up in a small town in New England in the 1950's, watching lassie, going to church,...	The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up Best Price: $3.99 Having just finished this delightful book, I decided to post a review. As I read over the...	The Greeks and Greek Love: A Bold New Exploration of the Ancient World Best Price: $95.18 I found serious problems with this (much-anticipated) book in the very first pages. The first...	Living to Tell About It Best Price: $8.49 The statistics about young black men are familiar; homicide is their #1 killer, one fourth are...	Queer in America Best Price: $3.98 Signorile's ground-breaking text on the Closet and all its horror should be fundamental...

Uninvited: Classical Hollywood Cinema and Lesbian Representability (Theories of Representation and Difference) Best Price: $39.95 "White writes with considerable flair, and her arguments are always interesting..."...	Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory Best Price: $11.48 This volume brings together feminist readings of famous classic and contemporary texts from...	Feminist Interpretations of Hans-Georg Gadamer (Re-Reading the Canon) Best Price: $42.95 Images of and references to women are so rare in the vast corpus of his published work that...	Feminist Interpretations of Theodor Adorno (Re-Reading the Canon) Best Price: $42.94 Adorno is often left out of the 'canon' of influences on contemporary feminist theory,...	Sex, Culture, and Justice: The Limits of Choice Best Price: $29.50 Autonomy is fundamental to liberalism. But autonomous individuals often choose to do things that...

Irreconcilable Differences?: Intellectual Stalemate in the Gay Rights Debate Best Price: $85.00 In recent year, pro-gay and anti-gay rights activists have engaged in a struggle to sway public...	The U.S. Military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues) Best Price: $16.49 This is a brilliant, thoroughly researched and documented history of the absurdity of our...	Walk on the Wild Side Hb Best Price: $133.90 Walk on the Wild Side is a fitting description of this collection of provocative photographs of...	"Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an Best Price: $13.70 "Believing Women in Islam" is a must read for every individual, Muslim or non-Muslim,...	Taboo (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog) Best Price: $7.00 This book of episodes in the life of Rickel is intimate and authentic to the ear. Reading...

Now That You Know: What Every Parent Should Know About Homosexuality Best Price: $3.50 I didn't know a book on this subject could be as enlightening, inspiring, and informative...	Sex, Gender, and the Politics of ERA: A State and the Nation Best Price: $1.94 I read this for my U.S. Government class and although I find the topic most interesting, I found...	A Crisis of Meaning: How Gay Men Are Making Sense of AIDS Best Price: $12.35 For gay men, the demands of the AIDS epidemic are enormous and unrelenting. Regardless of HIV...	Sex, Preference, and Family: Essays on Law and Nature Best Price: $59.67 From Dan Quayle's attack on TV's Murphy Brown for giving birth out of wedlock, to the...	Women and Citizenship (Studies in Feminist Philosophy) Best Price: $49.43 The notion of citizenship is complex; it can be at once an identity; a set of rights,...

Women, Culture, and Development: A Study of Human Capabilities (Wider Studies in Development Economics) Best Price: $43.50 Women, a majority of the world's population, receive only a small proportion of its...	The Impact of Women in Congress (Gender and Politics) Best Price: $60.07 This is a major new assessment of the impact of women members of the US Congress on public...	Feminism and Masculinities (Oxford Readings in Feminism) Best Price: $43.28 This Reader provides an international mixture of the best classic foundational pieces and recent...	Gays and Lesbians in the Military : Issues, Concerns and Contrasts Best Price: $91.16	The Chicago Black Renaissance and Women's Activism Best Price: $30.19 Following on the heels of the Harlem Renaissance, the Chicago Renaissance was a resonant...

Out in Theory: The Emergence of Lesbian and Gay Anthropology Best Price: $16.90 A companion volume to "Out in the Field", a benchmark examination of lesbian and gay...	AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities Best Price: $22.00 This interdisciplinary collection examines the shaping of local sexual cultures in the Asian...	Alice Paul and the American Suffrage Campaign Best Price: $20.00 This was a selection for my book club and there were two of us who really enjoyed the book and...	Voting the Gender Gap Best Price: $7.49 Wait! The gender gap in voting hasn't been around forever!? I would have thought it was...	Companeros: Latino Activists in the Face of AIDS (Latinos in Chicago and Midwest) Best Price: $18.32 Telling the affecting stories of eighty gay, bisexual, and transgender (GBT) Latino activists...

Palestinian Women of Gaza and the West Bank Best Price: $13.50 "... takes a new look at the situation in one of the hottest spots on the globe and asks...	Mother Is Gold, Father Is Glass: Gender and Colonialism in a Yoruba Town Best Price: $17.79 Lorelle D. Semley explores the historical and political meanings of motherhood in West Africa...	The Practice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire Best Price: $20.60 "... a work that builds a substantial bridge between Freudian psychoanalysis and radical...	The Invention of Sodomy in Christian Theology (The Chicago Series on Sexuality, History, and Society) Best Price: $14.95 Jordan does show convincingly that "sodomy," in the Bible defined as the sins...	Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach Best Price: $20.22 Kessler and McKenna convincingly argue that gender is not a reflection of biological reality but...

Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender, and Culture) Best Price: $12.68 I found this book to be very well written and, in several instances, it made me long to return...	The Boswell Thesis: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality Best Price: $29.99 Few books have had the social, cultural, and scholarly impact of John Boswell's ...	Desiring Arabs Best Price: $23.85 This book, like Edward Said's Orientalism gives the impression that the wes tis the source...	Invisible Lives: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgendered People Best Price: $19.99 First, this is one of the few volumes I've read where the situation of...	Theorizing Intersectionality and Sexuality (Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences) Best Price: $72.21 This book re-examines political, conceptual and methodological concerns of ?intersectionality?,...

Sex, Gender and Time in Fiction and Culture Best Price: $42.50 Investigating modern art, literature, theory and the law, this book illustrates the different...	Rethinking Trafficking in Women: Politics Out of Security Best Price: $93.85 What should be done about trafficking in women? This book argues that the question to be asked...	Queer Japanese: Gender and Sexual Identities through Linguistic Practices Best Price: $74.42 Queer Japanese presents a comprehensive picture of the ways Japanese sexual minorities...	Something Inside: Conversations With Gay Fiction Writers Best Price: $35.00 In the last twenty years, gay literature has earned a place at the American and British...	The Other Mother: A Lesbian'S Fight For Her Daughter (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies) Best Price: $1.25 Her writing style is ridiculous, flowery and forced-sounding. But the story Abrams has to tell...

Tentative Transgressions: Homosexuality, AIDS, and the Theater in Brazil Best Price: $17.00 Starting at the beginning of the twentieth century, Albuquerque examines the way the Modernist...	Laud Humphreys: Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology Best Price: $78.36 Laud Humphreys (1930?1988) was a pioneering and fearless sociologist, an Episcopal priest, and a...	1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog) Best Price: $73.80 For a quarter century, Tim Miller has worked at the intersection of performance, politics, and...	Writing Desire: Sixty Years of Gay Autobiography (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography) Best Price: $60.00 Exploring nearly sixty years of memoir and autobiography, Writing Desire examines the changing...	The End of the World Book: A Novel Best Price: $13.75 Alistair McCartney's first novel, THE END OF THE WORLD BOOK, might be the life's work of...

A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition Best Price: $20.00 Woods' phenomenological journey through literature, in which he examines a plethora of...	Scandal in the Ink (Cassell Lesbian and Gay Studies) Best Price: $23.81 This highly original study of homosexuality as a theme in [french] [literature] this century...	Male Impersonators: Men Performing Masculinity Best Price: $65.46 Examines some issues surrounding masculinity in gay culture. The book - intended to be both...

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