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Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities
John D'Emilio
University Of Chicago Press
University Of Chicago Press
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...
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Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
Janet Malcolm
Yale University Press
Yale University Press
"How had the pair of elderly Jewish lesbians survived the Nazis?” Janet Malcolm asks at the beginning of this extraordinary work of literary biography and investigative journalism. The pair, of course, is Gertrude Stein, the modernist master...
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Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
David Carter
St. Martin's Griffin
St. Martin's Griffin
"Riveting...Not only the definitive examination of the riots but an absorbing history of pre-Stonewall America, and how the oppression and pent-up rage of those years finally ignited on a hot New York night." - Boston Globe In 1969, a series of...
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A Natural History of Homosexuality
Francis Mark Mondimore
The Johns Hopkins University Press
The Johns Hopkins University Press
A terrible sin, a gift from the gods, a mental illness, a natural human variation -- over the centuries people have defined homosexuality in all of these ways. Since the word homosexual was coined in 1869, many scientists in a variety of fields...
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Homosexuality and Civilization
Louis Crompton
Belknap Press
Belknap Press
How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history...
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A Queer World: The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader
Martin Duberman
NYU Press
NYU Press
This compedious, cutting-edge volume offers a broad array of the most provocative gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender scholarship produced by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) over the first decade (1986-1996) of its existence at...
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Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels
Rachel Sherman
University of California Press
University of California Press
In this lively study, Rachel Sherman goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a nuanced picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests by providing seemingly unlimited personal attention. Drawing on in-depth...
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Desiring Arabs
Joseph A. Massad
University Of Chicago Press
University Of Chicago Press
Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western...
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Creating a Place For Ourselves: Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Histories
Brett Beemyn
Routledge
Routledge
The study of gay and lesbian history has, during the past two decades, grown enormously. Early work such as Jonathan Katz's 1978 Gay American History and Allen Bérubé's 1990 titleComing Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World...
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