Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940 Winner of the 1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for History, this brilliant work challenges the conventional wisdom that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet....List Price: $22.00 Price: $12.88 You Save: $9.12 (41%) 85 Merchants Used & new
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century John Boswell's highly acclaimed study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the Christian West challenges received opinion and our own preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members, among whom were priests, bishops and even canonized saints. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources ......List Price: $23.00 Price: $9.47 You Save: $13.53 (59%) 99 Merchants Used & new
Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America (Between Men-.-Between Women) An account of lesbian life in the twentieth century traces the evolution of lesbian identity, discussing the establishment of lesbian subcultures in each decade, examines how feminism and gay liberation have destigmatized lesbianism, and more. Reprint....List Price: $18.00 Price: $5.99 You Save: $12.01 (67%) 95 Merchants Used & new
Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present A unique and hugely absorbing narrative history of gay life-from Oscar Wilde to the first gay marriage performed in San Francisco in 2004-by the award-winning journalist and distinguished author of Out in the World and Sex- Crime Panic. Miller accompanies his narrative with essays and excerpts from contemporary and historical writings, and the text is ......Price: $43.99 5 Merchants Used & new
Lieutenant Nun Marjorie Garber (Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety), provides a lively introduction to this picaresque autobiography of a 17th-century nun turned cross-dressing soldier. De Erauso's story itself is a swashbuckler's catalogue of sword fights, daring escapes, damsels in distress, and witty repartee. Even if only half of what de Erauso claims about ......List Price: $17.00 Price: $8.00 You Save: $9.00 (53%) 79 Merchants Used & new
Capote: A Biography Based on hundreds of hours of interviews with the man who authored In Cold Blood and Breakfast at Tiffany's, as well as with nearly everyone who knew him, this absorbing, definitive biography follows Truman Capote from his eccentric childhood in Alabama to the heights of New York society. Featuring many photographs, this book also candidly recounts a gifted and ......List Price: $17.95 Price: $1.83 You Save: $16.12 (90%) 167 Merchants Used & new
Homosexuality and Civilization How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? In a narrative tour de force, Louis Crompton chronicles the lives and achievements of homosexual men and women alongside a darker history of persecution, as he compares the Christian West with the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome, Arab Spain, imperial China, and ......List Price: $21.00 Price: $13.29 You Save: $7.71 (37%) 34 Merchants Used & new
Men of WW II: Fighting Men at Ease The long awaited follow up to the original At Ease presents 160 new, never before published photographs of WWII Navy men. These photos are not the combat photography we?re so accustomed to seeing; here are disarmingly winsome and playful pictures of sailors and soldiers at leisure, displaying an innocent affection for each other that is practically unthinkable today. This ......List Price: $35.00 Price: $16.95 You Save: $18.05 (52%) 37 Merchants Used & new
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy (Studies in the History of Sexuality) The discovery of the fascinating and richly documented story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, Abbess of the Convent of the Mother of God, by Judith C. Brown was an event of major historical importance. Not only is the story revealed in Immodest Acts that of the rise and fall of a powerful woman in a church community and a record of the life of a religious visionary, it is also the ......List Price: $19.99 Price: $7.65 You Save: $12.34 (62%) 64 Merchants Used & new
The Transgender Studies Reader Although the term "transgender" itself has achieved familiarity only within the past decade, this authoritative collection of articles demonstrates that the study of behaviors, bodies, and subjective identities which contest common Eurocentric notions of gender has a history stretching back at least to the early 20th century.Transgender studies is the latest area of academic ......List Price: $100.00 Price: $80.00 & this item ships for FREE with Super Saver Shipping - details You Save: $20.00 (20%) 26 Merchants Used & new