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The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was : Myths of Self-Imitation
Wendy Doniger
Hardcover - $103.95
Many cultures have myths about self-imitation, stories about people who pretend to be someone else pretending to be them, in effect masquerading as themselves. This great theme, in literature and in life, tells us that people put on masks to discover ...
Sappho Is Burning
Page Duboia
Paperback - $44.95
To know all we know about Sappho is to know little. Her poetry, dating from the seventh century B.C.E., comes to us in fragments, her biography as speculation. How is it then, Page duBois asks, that this poet has come to signify so much? "Sappho Is B ...
Pornography, the Theory : What Utilitarianism Did to Action
Frances Ferguson
Paperback - $40.95
Pornography first developed in western Europe during the late eighteenth century in tandem with the rise of utilitarianism, the philosophical position that stresses the importance of something's usefulness over its essence. Through incisive readings ...
Lesbian Pulp Fiction : The Sexually Intrepid World of Lesbian Paperback Novels 1950-1965
Katherine V. Forrest
Paperback - $32.95
Written in the overheated prose typical of the pulp genre of the 1950s, this collection documents the emergence of a lesbian subculture in postwar America.
Love, West Hollywood : Reflections of Los Angeles
Chris Freeman
Paperback - $27.95
From New Orleans ("Love, Bourbon Street") to San Francisco ("Love, Castro Street"), Alyson's richly detailed, highly acclaimed series finds its way to the sun-dappled land of Southern California. The story of Los Angeles' gay history is often oversha ...
Subjectivity
Donald E. Hall
Paperback - $44.95
"Subjectivity" explores the history of theories of selfhood, from the Classical Era to the present, and demonstrates how those theories can be applied in literary and cultural criticism. It examines all the major methodologies and theoretical emphase ...
Queer Social Philosophy : Critical Readings from Kant to Adorno
Randall Halle
Hardcover - $65.95
In Queer Social Philosophy, Randall Halle analyzes key texts in the tradition of German critical theory from the perspective of contemporary queer theory, exposing gender and sexuality restrictions that undermine those texts' claims of universal trut ...
Androgyny in Modern Literature
Tracy Hargreaves
Hardcover - $170.95
"Androgyny in Modern Literature" engages with the ways in which the trope of androgyny has shifted during the late nineteenth and twentieth-centuries. Alchemical, platonic, sexological, psychological and decadent representations of androgyny have pro ...