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Book cover for Joseph O. Aimone: Straight with a Twist

Straight with a Twist : Queer Theory and the Subject of Heterosexuality

Joseph O. Aimone
Paperback - $39.95

This engaging collection poses the question, Can straight people think queer?

Straight with a Twist offers a refreshing look at the relation between queer theory and critical examinations of the construction of heterosexuality. Seeking to prolifera ...

Book cover for John P. Anders: Willa Cather's Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary Tradition

Willa Cather's Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary Tradition

John P. Anders
Hardcover - $102.95

Moving the focus from the strong female characters that American writer Cather (1873-1947) is best known for, Anders looks at the male friendships she portrays, ranging from the social to the sexual. He argues that she worked in the familiar traditio ...

Book cover for Phyllis M. Betz: Lesbian Detective Fiction

Lesbian Detective Fiction : Woman as Author, Subject and Reader

Phyllis M. Betz
Paperback - $72.95

This work examines how lesbian detective and mystery fiction represents lesbian characters and experience within the confines of the genre. Such fiction reveals the lesbian's increasing visibility in the wider society. Often the best place to find th ...

Book cover for Marci Blackman: Beyond Definition

Beyond Definition : New Writing from Gay and Lebian San Francisco

Marci Blackman
Paperback - $18.95



Book cover for Peter Brooks: Troubling Confessions

Troubling Confessions : Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature

Peter Brooks
Paperback - $24.95

"A book so rich in fresh ideas that I found myself underlining as madly as an undergraduate."-Richard Lourie, "New York Times Book Review"
Confession, Peter Brooks writes, is "one of the most complex and obscure forms of human speech and behavior ...

Book cover for Steven Bruhm: Reflecting Narcissus

Reflecting Narcissus : A Queer Aesthetic

Steven Bruhm
Paperback - $50.95



Book cover for Richard Canning: Gay Fiction Speaks

Gay Fiction Speaks : Conversations with Gay Novelists

Richard Canning
Paperback - $54.95

A collection of in-depth analytical interviews with twelve of the best-known gay novelists writing in English today, including Armistead Maupin, David Leavitt, Alan Garganus, and others.

Book cover for Richard Canning: Hear Us Out

Hear Us Out : Conversations with Gay Novelists

Richard Canning
Paperback - $58.95

The author of the acclaimed "Gay Fiction Speaks" brings us new interviews with twelve prominent gay writers who have emerged in the last decade. "Hear Us Out" demonstrates how in recent decades the canon of gay fiction has developed, diversified, and ...

Book cover for Michael Cart: The Heart Has Its Reasons

The Heart Has Its Reasons : Young Adult Literature with Gay/Lesbian/Queer Content 1969-2004

Michael Cart
Hardcover - $86.95

Society does not make it easy for young people, regardless of their sexual orientation, to find accurate, nonjudgmental information about homosexuality. It makes it even more difficult for young homosexuals to find positive role models in fiction eit ...

Book cover for Dianne Chisholm: Queer Constellations

Queer Constellations : Subcultural Space in the Wake of the City

Dianne Chisholm
Paperback - $42.95

"Queer Constellations investigates the dreams and catastrophes of recent urban history viewed through new queer narratives of inner-city life. The "gay village," "gay mecca," ""gai Paris," the "lesbian flaneur," the "lesbian boheme"--these and other ...

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