Gay & Lesbian Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Sexual Diversity in Asia, c. 600 - 1950

   Edited by Raquel A.G. Reyes, William G. Clarence-Smith

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   Non-reproductive sex practices in Asia have historically been a source of fascination, prurient or otherwise, for Westerners, who being either Catholic or Protestant, were often struck by what they perceived as the widespread promiscuity and licentiousness of native inhabitants. Graphic...

   Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. Handbook of LGBT-Affirmative Couple and Family Therapy

   Edited by Jerry J. Bigner, Joseph L. Wetchler

   The editors and contributors of this comprehensive text provide a unique and important contribution to LGBT clinical literature. Spanning 30 chapters, they discuss the diverse and complex issues involved in LGBT couple and family therapy. In almost 15 years, this book provides the first in-depth...

   Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
3. Subalternity and Difference

   Investigations from the North and the South

   Edited by Gyanendra Pandey

   Series: Intersections: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

   Focusing on the idea of difference as a marker of subalternity, this book looks at the ways in which ordinary citizens have sought to present and identify themselves in ways that defy the conventional categorisations of governments and historical experience. Inspired particularly by questions...

   Published January 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Lesbianism, Cinema, Space

   The Sexual Life of Apartments

   By Lee Wallace

   Series: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

   In this cutting edge volume, Wallace identifies a unique trend in post-Production Code films that deal with lesbian content: stories of lesbianism invariably engage with an apartment setting, a spatial motif not typically associated with lesbian history or cultural representation. Through the...

   Published August 14th 2011 by Routledge
5. Transgender Migrations

   The Bodies, Borders, and Politics of Transition

   Edited by Trystan Cotten

   Series: New Directions in American History

   Transgender Migrations brings together a top-notch collection of emerging and established scholars to examine the way that the term "migration" can be used not only to look at the way trans bodies migrate from one gender to the (an?) other, but the way that trans people migrate in the larger...

   Published July 19th 2011 by Routledge
6. Queer Political Performance and Protest

   By Benjamin Shepard

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   From the birth of the Gay Liberation through the rise of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) in 1987, the global justice movement in 1994, the largest day of antiwar protest in world history in February 2003, the Republican National Convention protests in August 2004, and the massive...

   Published July 14th 2011 by Routledge
7. Queer Temporalities in Gay Male Representation

   Tragedy, Normativity, and Futurity

   By Dustin Bradley Goltz

   Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

   Through the analysis of over seventy films and thirty television series, ranging from Shortbus, Sweet Home Alabama, and Poseidon to Noah’s Arc, Brothers & Sisters, and Dawson’s Creek, Goltz examines reoccurring narrative structures in popular media that perpetuate the extreme value placed upon...

   Published June 30th 2011 by Routledge
8. Play, Creativity, and Social Movements

   If I Can't Dance, It’s Not My Revolution

   By Benjamin Shepard

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   As we play, we step away from stark reality to conjure up new possibilities for the present and our common future. Today, a new cohort of social activists are using it to create social change and reinvent democratic social relations. In contrast to work or routine, play must be free. To the extent...

   Published May 17th 2011 by Routledge
9. Homosexuality and Manliness in Postwar Japan

   By Jonathan D. Mackintosh

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Japan Series

   Japan’s first professionally produced, commercially marketed and nationally distributed gay lifestyle magazine, Barazoku (‘The Rose Tribes’), was launched in 1971. Publicly declaring the beauty and normality of homosexual desire, Barazoku electrified the male homosexual world whilst scandalising...

   Published April 19th 2011 by Routledge
10. Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture

    Edited by David A Gerstner

    The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture covers gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (GLBTQ) life and culture post-1945, with a strong international approach to the subject.The scope of the work is extremely comprehensive, with entries falling into the broad categories of...

    Published April 12th 2011 by Routledge