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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $10.11
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Manufacturer: Beacon Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: E. J. Graff
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Publisher: Beacon Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.81
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Publication Date: 2004-03-18
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Reading Level: 303
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Description: E.J. Graff had a very personal reason for asking the question in this book's title: she was married in 1991, but in a ceremony legitimized by neither church nor state. Graff and her dearly beloved, you see, are lesbians. But instead of being dominated by agenda, What Is Marriage For? is a playful and informative study of the institution of wedlock throughout history that will appeal to readers outside of its obvious constituency. Chapter by chapter, Graff looks at the legal, sociological, and anthropological assumptions about money, sex, procreation, tribal affiliation, and the pursuit of personal happiness that underlie the concept of matrimony in Western societies. Her eye for the odd historical footnote is especially striking: we learn, for example, that in ancient Rome, marriage vows were exchanged by the groom and his father-in-law, and that--the assertions of right-wing fundamentalists notwithstanding--families were actually far less stable in the premodern era (where as many as 50 percent of all French children lived with a stepparent) than they are today. Graff's conclusion? The rules of engagement have fluctuated so wildly over the centuries that the term "traditional marriage" is something of an oxymoron; same-sex unions are but one of the many ways in which marriage has evolved to meet the changing social dynamics of the 20th century. --Patrizia DiLucchio
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Price: $23.00
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Sale: $4.00
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Boswell
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.76
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Publication Date: 2005-11-01
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Reading Level: 442
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Description: "Truly groundbreaking work. Boswell reveals unexplored phenomena with an unfailing erudition."—Michel Foucault
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 them priests, bishops, and even saints—when it was first published twenty-five years ago. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this one of the most extensive treatments of any single aspect of Western social history. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, still fiercely relevant today, helped form the disciplines of gay and gender studies, and it continues to illuminate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force.
"What makes this work so exciting is not simply its content—fascinating though that is—but its revolutionary challenge to some of Western culture's most familiar moral assumptions."—Jean Strouse, Newsweek
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Price: $22.00
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Sale: $4.94
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Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: George Chauncey
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Publisher: Basic Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305
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Publication Date: 1995-05-18
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Reading Level: 496
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Description: Gay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed only in the closet, where gay men were isolated, invisible, and self-hating. Based on years of research and access to a rich trove of diaries, legal records, and other unpublished documents, this book is a fascinating portrait of a gay world that is not supposed to have existed.
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $0.97
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Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lillian Faderman
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.76630973
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Publication Date: 1992-06-01
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: 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.
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Price: $11.95
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Sale: $6.48
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Manufacturer: Alyson Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Heinz Heger
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Publisher: Alyson Books
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 940.547243
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Publication Date: 1994-10-01
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Reading Level: 120
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Description: It has only been since the mid-1970s that any attention has been paid to the persecution and interment of gay men by the Nazis during the Third Reich. Since that time, books such as Richard Plant's The Pink Triangle (and Martin Sherman's play Bent) have illuminated this nearly lost history. Heinz Heger's first-person account, The Men with the Pink Triangle, was one of the first books on the topic and remains one of the most important. In 1939, Heger, a Viennese university student, was arrested and sentenced to prison for being a "degenerate." Within weeks he was transported to Sachsenhausen, a concentration camp in East Germany, and forced to wear a pink triangle to show that his crime was homosexuality. He remained there, under horrific conditions, until the end of the war in 1945. The power of The Men with the Pink Triangle comes from Heger's sparse prose and his ability to recall--and communicate--the smallest resonant details. The pain and squalor of everyday camp life--the constant filth, the continuous presence of death, and the unimaginable cruelty of those in command--are all here. But Heger's story would be unbearable were it not for the simple courage he and others used to survive and, having survived, that he bore witness. This book is harrowing but necessary reading for everyone concerned about gay history, human rights, or social justice. --Michael Bronski
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $10.13
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Manufacturer: Advocate Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Neil Miller
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Publisher: Advocate Books
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Edition: Rev Upd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.7660904
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Publication Date: 2008-11-01
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Reading Level: 408
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Description: 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 illustrated with photos and line drawings. Neil Miller is the author of Sex-Crime Panic and winner of the 2003 Randy Shilts Award for nonfiction and an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. He is also the author of In Search of Gay America, winner of the 1990 American Library Association prize for gay and lesbian literature. He teaches journalism and nonfiction writing at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $5.50
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Manufacturer: InterVarsity Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas E. Schmidt
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Publisher: InterVarsity Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 241.66
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Publication Date: 1995-06
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Reading Level: 239
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Description: Writing with Christian perspective and empathy, Schmidt addresses all the main points of the current debate--what the Bible really says and means about homosexuality; the health effects of homosexual behavior; whether or not people are born with homosexual orientations; and the cogency of recent progay reconstructions of history. This book is the most comprehensive, persuasive and readable Christian book on the subject.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $5.00
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Boswell
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.766094
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Publication Date: 1995-05-30
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Reading Level: 464
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Description: Both highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners of the same sex, but sanctified them--in ceremonies strikingly similar to heterosexual marriage ceremonies.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $7.99
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Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Eric Marcus
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Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.90664
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Publication Date: 2002-06-15
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Reading Level: 496
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Description: From the Boy Scouts and the U.S. military to marriage and adoption, the gay civil rights movement has exploded on the national stage.Eric Marcus takes us back in time to the earliest days of that struggle in a newly revised and thoroughly updated edition of Making History, originally published in 1992.Using the heart-felt stories of more than 60 people, he carries us through the compelling five-decade battle that has changed the fabric of American society. The rich tapestry that emerges from Making Gay History includes the inspiring voices of teenagers and grandparents, journalists and housewives, from the little known Dr. Evelyn Hooker and Morty Manford to former Vice President Al Gore, Ellen DeGeneres, and Abigail Van Buren. Together, these many stories bear witness to a time of astonishing change as gay and lesbian people have struggled against prejudice and fought for equal rights under the law.
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $18.29
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Sara Mills
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 194
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Publication Date: 2003-06-24
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: It is impossible to imagine contemporary critical theory without the work of Michel Foucault. His radical reworkings of the concepts of power, knowledge, discourse and identity have influenced the widest possible range of theories and impacted upon disciplinary fields from literary studies to anthropology. Aimed at students approaching Foucault's texts for the first time, this volume offers:
* an examination of Foucault's contexts
* a guide to his key ideas
* an overview of responses to his work
* practical hints on 'using Foucault'
* an annotated guide to his most influential works
* suggestions for further reading.
Challenging not just what we think but how we think, Foucault's work remains the subject of heated debate. Sara Mills' Michel Foucault offers an introduction to both the ideas and the debate, fully equipping student readers for an encounter with this most influential of thinkers.
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