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Unconditional
A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017
#1 New Release on Amazon! ─ Winner of the Sixth Annual Bisexual Book Award for Non-fiction, 2017
Looking for LGBTQ books that offer guidance on providing loving support to your LGBT child?
Parents of LGBT children guide: Unconditional: A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child provides...
Sex on the Brain
The Biological Differences Between Men and Women
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Go beyond the headlines and the hype to get the newest findings in the burgeoning field of gender studies. Drawing on disciplines that include evolutionary science, anthropology, animal behavior, neuroscience, psychology, and endocrinology, Deborah Blum explores matters ranging from the link between...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Traditional midwifery, culture, customs, understandings, and meanings surrounding pregnancy and birth are grounded in distinct epistemologies and worldviews that have sustained Indigenous women and their families since time immemorial. Years of colonization, however, have impacted the degree to which...
by Jennifer L. Morgan
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Women in Early America, edited by Thomas A. Foster, tells the fascinating stories of the myriad women who shaped the early modern North American world from the colonial era through the first years of the Republic. This volume goes beyond the familiar stories of Pocahontas or Abigail Adams, recovering...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
This book contributes to our collective understanding of the significance of representations of women and gender in magazines in both their print and online forms. The essays are authored by scholars, writers and cultural producers in fields such as art, film and visual studies, literature, critical...
Why Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?
Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Gay culture has become a nightmare of consumerism, whether it's an endless quest for Absolut vodka, Diesel jeans, rainbow Hummers, pec implants, or Pottery Barn. Whatever happened to sexual flamboyance and gender liberation, an end to marriage, the military, and the nuclear family? As backrooms are...
Queering the Color Line
Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2000
Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was “invented” as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analyzing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, Siobhan...
Sexual Orientation and Gender Expression in Social Work Practice
Working with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender People
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
This volume offers an invaluable resource for both social work educators and practitioners working with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) clients and their families. It is the first such work to specifically address issues affecting bisexual and transgender people as well as the larger...
by Stacey Elin Rossi
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2004
In The Battle and Backlash Rage On: Why feminism cannot be obsolete edited by Stacey Elin Rossi, hot topics include: misogyny, antifeminism and/or bigotry in "men's rights" groups and "feminist" groups (such as ifeminists); critiques of the mainstream view that feminism is an outdated...
Women of Color in STEM
Navigating the Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Women of Color in STEM: Navigating the Workforce is an opportunity for making public the life stories of women of color who have persevered in STEM workplace settings. The authors used various critical theories to situate and make visible the lives of women of color in such disciplines and workplace...
Trans Like Me
Conversations for All of Us
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
A personal and culture-driven exploration of the most pressing questions facing the transgender community today, from a leading activist, musician, and academic
In Trans Like Me, CN Lester takes readers on a measured, thoughtful, intelligent yet approachable tour through the most important...
Queer BDSM Intimacies
Critical Consent and Pushing Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
Based on an extensive interview study with lesbian, transgender and queer BDSM practitioners, this book sheds new light on sexuality and current theoretical debates in gender and queer studies. It critically discusses practices of establishing consent, pushing boundaries, playing with gender and creating new kinds of intimacies and embodiments.
Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacies, and Desire
Theories of Changes in Emotional Regimes from Medieval Society to Late Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Genealogies of Emotions, Intimacies and Desire excavates epistemologies which attempt to explain changes in emotional regimes from medieval society to late modernity. Key in this debate is the concept of intimacy. The book shows that different historical periods are characterized by emotional regimes...
The Paradox of Gender Equality
How American Women's Groups Gained and Lost Their Public Voice
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Drawing on original research, Kristin A. Goss examines how women's civic place has changed over the span of more than 120 years, how public policy has driven these changes, and why these changes matter for women and American democracy. Suffrage, which granted women the right to vote and invited their...