Roman Homosexuality: Second Edition

Ten years after its unique ebook, Roman Homosexuality continues to be the definitive assertion of this attention-grabbing yet usually misunderstood point of Roman tradition. discovered but obtainable, the ebook has reached either scholars and normal readers with an curiosity in historical sexuality. This moment version includes a new foreword by way of Martha Nussbaum, a very rewritten advent that takes account of recent advancements within the box, a rewritten and multiplied appendix on historic photographs 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 culture of Fifties tattoos! within the early Nineteen Fifties, while tattoos have been the indelible mark of a lowlife, an erudite professor of English--a buddy of Gertrude Stein, Thomas Mann, Andre Gide, and Thornton Wilder--abandoned his task to turn 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 lifestyles, numerous efforts to focus on speech as behavior that has turn into topic to political debate and law. Reviewing hate speech laws, anti-pornography arguments, and up to date controversies approximately homosexual self-declaration within the army, Judith Butler asks even 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 yankee Indian lesbian ladies and homosexual males. Editor Lester B. Brown posits six gender kinds in conventional American Indian tradition: women and men, not-men and not-women (persons of 1 organic intercourse assuming the id of the other intercourse in a few form), and gays and lesbians.