Queer Ideas
Sexual Identity on the Job: Issues and Services
by Alan L Ellis and Ellen D Riggle
Is queer theory dead? Through its increasing entanglement with capitalism, James Penney, controversially argues that queer theory has run its course. However, the 'end of queer' should not signal the death of liberatory sexual politics; rather, it presents the occasion to rethink the relation between sexuality and politics. The book makes a critical return to Marxism and psychoanalysis, via Freud and Lacan, and conducts a critical examination of queer theory's most famous proponents, includin...
Marcus Aurelius in Love
by Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Cornelius Fronto, and Associate Professor of Classics and Women's Studies Amy Richlin
In 1815 a manuscript containing one of the long-lost treasures of antiquity was discovered--the letters of Marcus Cornelius Fronto, reputed to have been one of the greatest Roman orators. But this find disappointed many nineteenth-century readers, who had hoped for the letters to convey all of the political drama of Cicero's. That the collection included passionate love letters between Fronto and the future emperor Marcus Aurelius was politely ignored--or concealed. And for almost two hundred ye...
Sermons for a Hot Kitchen from the Lesbian Tent Revival
by Carolyn Gage
Sixteen smokin' hot sermons served up steaming by Sister Carolyn of the Sisterhood of the Sacred Synapse! Hilarious, fierce, provocative, and lesbianic to the bone. If you can't take the heat, you'll be missing out on some nourishing fare!
