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Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship
This classic text, originally published in 1991 and now revised and updated to include a new preface, draws upon fieldwork and interviews to explore the ways gay men and lesbians are constructing their own notions of kinship by drawing on the symbolism of love, friendship, and biology....
MPN: 86705840bc2bbc49fa7627a8c103803c
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A Whosoever Church: Welcoming Lesbians and Gay Men into African American Congregations
This book features interviews with twenty black scholars and religious leaders who speak out-from various theological perspectives-against institutional prejudice toward gay and lesbian people. The interviews are conducted in a conversational format in language that will be accessible and interesting to lay readers....
MPN: fcd5340784396456794755d2e12067ad
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The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader
Bringing together forty-two groundbreaking essays-many of them already classics-The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader provides a much-needed introduction to the contemporary state of lesbian/gay studies, extensively illustrating the range, scope, diversity, appeal, and power of the work currently being done in the field. Featuring essays by such prominent scholars as Judith Butler, John D'Emilio, Kobena Mercer, Adrienne Rich, Gayle Rubin, and Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader explores a...
MPN: 14384369c308bc37990c4d6c96ff11a3
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Out in Culture: Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Essays on Popular Culture
Out in Culture" charts some of the ways in which lesbians, gays, and queers have understood and negotiated the pleasures and affirmations, as well as the disappointments, of mass culture. The essays collected here, combining critical and theoretical works from a cross-section of academics, journalists, and artists, demonstrate a rich variety of gay and lesbian approaches to film, television, popular music, and fashion. This wide-ranging anthology is the first to juxtapose pioneering work in gay and lesbian ...
MPN: 03047aa99f1204296dd0d386f9179fa9