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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Pathways of Desire The Sexual Migration of Mexican Gay Men

Carrillo Hector

ISBN: PB: 9780226517735, ISBN: HB: 9780226508177, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 3 line drawings

With "Pathways of Desire", Hector Carrillo brings us into the lives of Mexican gay men who have left their home country to pursue greater sexual autonomy and sexual freedom in the United States. The groundbreaking ethnographic study brings our attent...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Homintern How Gay Culture Liberated the Modern World

Woods Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780300228748, Yale University Press, August 2017
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

In a hugely ambitious study which crosses continents, languages, and almost a century, Gregory Woods identifies the ways in which homosexuality has helped shape Western culture. Extending from the trials of Oscar Wilde to the gay liberation era, this...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

New Intimacies, Old Desires Law, Culture and Queer Politics in Neoliberal Times

Sircar Oishik, Jain Dipika

ISBN: HB: 9789384757748, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
480 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In the last fifteen years, great strides have been made in advancing the rights of queer people. In the same period that these victories have been secured by queer movements, we've seen the rise of crony capitalism, violent consequences of the war on...

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General

Gay and Lesbian Studies

New Eugenics Selective Breeding in an Era of Reproductive Technologies

Daar Judith

ISBN: HB: 9780300137156, Yale University Press, April 2017
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A provocative examination of how unequal access to reproductive technology replays the sins of the eugenics movement. Eugenics, the effort to improve the human species by inhibiting reproduction of "inferior" genetic strains, ultimately came to be r...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Boystown Sex and Community in Chicago

Orne Jason

ISBN: PB: 9780226413396, ISBN: HB: 9780226413259, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones, 1 line drawing

From neighborhoods as large as Chelsea or the Castro, to locales limited to a single club, like The Shamrock in Madison or Sidewinders in Albuquerque, gay areas are becoming normal. Straight people flood in. Gay people flee out. Scholars call this tr...

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Literary Criticism

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Building Fires in the Snow A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry

Amore Martha, Childs Lucian

ISBN: PB: 9781602233010, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Diversity has always been central to Alaska identity, as the state's population consists of people with many different backgrounds, viewpoints, and life experiences. This book opens a window into these diverse lives, gathering stories and poems about...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Tourist Attractions Performing Race and Masculinity in Brazil's Sexual Economy

Mitchell Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780226309101, ISBN: HB: 9780226309071, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 1 line drawing

While much attention has been paid in recent years to heterosexual prostitution and sex tourism in Brazil, gay sex tourism has been almost completely overlooked. In "Tourist Attractions", Gregory C. Mitchell presents a pioneering ethnography that foc...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century

Boswell John

ISBN: PB: 9780226345222, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
456 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 13 halftones

John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members – among the...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Gender Studies

Visions of Queer Martyrdom from John Henry Newman to Derek Jarman

Janes Dominic

ISBN: HB: 9780226250618, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones

With all the heated debates around religion and homosexuality today, it might be hard to see the two as anything but antagonistic. But in this book, Dominic Janes reveals the opposite: Catholic forms of Christianity, he explains, played a key role in...

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Photography

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Anthony Friedkin The Gay Essay

Cox Julian, Blake Nayland, Myles Eileen

ISBN: PB: 9780300206371, Yale University Press, June 2014
144 pp., 25.4x25.4 cm, 100 black&white illus.

For more than forty years, American photographer Anthony Friedkin (b. 1949), creating full-frame black-and-white images, has documented people, cities and landscapes primarily in his home state of California. During the culturally tumultuous years of...

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