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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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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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Gender Studies

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Sexual Discretion Black Masculinity and the Politics of Passing

McCune Jeffrey Q. Jr.

ISBN: PB: 9780226096537, ISBN: HB: 9780226096360, University of Chicago Press, March 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

African American men who have sex with men while maintaining a heterosexual lifestyle in public are attracting increasing interest from both the general media and scholars. Commonly referred to as "down-low" or "DL" men, many continue to have relatio...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Blessing Same-Sex Unions The Perils of Queer Romance and the Confusions of Christian Marriage

Jordan Mark D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226102535, ISBN: HB: 9780226410333, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

At most church weddings, the person presiding over the ritual is not a priest or a pastor, but the wedding planner, followed by the photographer, the florist, and the caterer. And in this day and age, more wedding theology is supplied by "Modern Brid...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Touching Encounters Sex, Work, and Male-for-Male Internet Escorting

Walby Kevin

ISBN: PB: 9780226870069, ISBN: HB: 9780226870052, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
232 pp., 23x15 cm

Often depicted as deviant or pathological by public health researchers, psychoanalysts, and sexologists, male-with-male sex and sex work is, in fact, an increasingly mainstream pursuit. Based on a qualitative investigation of the practices involved i...

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Christianity

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Seeking the Straight and Narrow Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America

Gerber Lynne

ISBN: PB: 9780226288123, ISBN: HB: 9780226288116, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
296 pp., 23x15 cm

Losing weight and changing your sexual orientation are both notoriously difficult to do successfully. Yet many faithful evangelical Christians believe that thinness and heterosexuality are godly ideals – and that God will provide reliable paths towar...

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Gay and Lesbian Studies

Nuptial Deal Same-Sex Marriage and Neo-Liberal Governance

Whitehead Jaye Cee

ISBN: PB: 9780226895291, ISBN: HB: 9780226895284, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
208 pp., 23x15 cm

Since the 1990s, gay and lesbian civil rights organizations have increasingly focused on the right of same-sex couples to marry, which represents a major change from earlier activists' rejection of the institution. Centering on the everyday struggles...

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Recruiting Young Love How Christians Talk about Homosexuality

Jordan Mark D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226410449, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
296 pp., 22.9x15.7 cm

In the view of many Christians, the teenage years are simultaneously the most dangerous and the most promising. At the very moment when teens are trying to establish a sense of identity and belonging, they are beset by temptation on all sides – from...

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Criminology

Gay and Lesbian Studies

Criminal Intimacy Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality

Kunzel Regina

ISBN: PB: 9780226462271, ISBN: HB: 9780226462264, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones, 2 line illus.

Sex is usually assumed to be a closely guarded secret of prison life. But it has long been the subject of intense scrutiny by both prison administrators and reformers – as well as a source of fascination and anxiety for the American public. Historica...

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