Roman Homosexuality: Second Edition

Ten years after its unique book, Roman Homosexuality is still the definitive assertion of this fascinating yet usually misunderstood point of Roman tradition. discovered but available, the ebook has reached either scholars and common readers with an curiosity in old sexuality. This moment version encompasses a new foreword via Martha Nussbaum, a very rewritten advent that takes account of recent advancements within the box, a rewritten and multiplied appendix on old photos of sexuality, and an up-to-date bibliography.

Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos: A Social History of the Tattoo With Gangs, Sailors, and Street-Corner Punks 1950-1965 (Haworth Series in Gay & Lesbian Studies)

Discover the darkish way of life of Fifties tattoos! within the early Nineteen Fifties, while tattoos have been the indelible mark of a lowlife, an erudite professor of English--a good friend of Gertrude Stein, Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, and Thornton Wilder--abandoned his activity to develop into a tattoo artist (and by the way a researcher for Alfred Kinsey).

Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative

With an identical highbrow braveness with which she addressed problems with gender, Judith Butler turns her consciousness to speech and behavior in modern political existence, taking a look at a number of efforts to focus on speech as behavior that has develop into topic to political debate and rules. Reviewing hate speech rules, anti-pornography arguments, and up to date controversies approximately homosexual self-declaration within the army, Judith Butler asks no matter if and the way language acts in each one of those cultural websites.

Two Spirit People: American Indian Lesbian Women and Gay Men (Monograph Published Simultaneously As the Gay & Lesbian Social Services , Vol 6, No 2)

Spirit humans is the first-ever examine social technological know-how learn exploration into the lives of yank Indian lesbian girls and homosexual males. Editor Lester B. Brown posits six gender types in conventional American Indian tradition: women and men, not-men and not-women (persons of 1 organic intercourse assuming the identification of the other intercourse in a few form), and gays and lesbians.