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...
Understanding Homosexuality Through Reincarnation
by Numa Jay Pillion
On Line, Poetry: A Collection of Poems Published to a Social Utility Website
by P Scaramuzzo
A collection of poems originally written and published to a social utility website. Poems involve and explore topics from the author's personal perspective ranging from sex, drugs, relationships, sexuality, politics, and, of course, going on-line.
As teens, Otis and Terrell were lovers. But their relationship was torn apart by Terrell's father and his pastor causing the two young men to travel different roads in their lives. Now, as they near their fortieth birthdays, each seeks to confront the pains and truths that have shaped his journey: Otis returns home, having endured years of hardship in search of the peace that has eluded him for so long. During his stay he finds he must confront his father who had turned his back on him; the...
Previously published as "Sugar and Spice: The DL Diaries Book One." Three people...all having sex with someone they shouldn't...must face the possibility of having their secrets exposed! In this controversial erotic novella, author Shondra Jackson explores the lives some of those in the upper-crust African-American community in Atlanta and the married men who are a part of it and live double lives on the man-on-man sexual down-low.
The sociology of "social deviants" flourished in the United States at midcentury, studying the lives of outsiders such as homosexuals, Jews, disabled people, drug addicts, and political radicals. But in the next decades, many of these downcast figures would become the architects of new social movements, activists in revolt against institutions, the state, and social constraint. As queer theory gained prominence as a subfield of the humanities in the late 1980s, it seemed to inherit these radical...
Lesbian Choices (Between Men - Between Women: Lesbian & Gay Studies)
Feminist philosopher Claudia Card explores with this work the complex ethical and political questions lesbians face regarding their identities and their relationships both within and outside of lesbian communities. In part 1, the author looks at lesbian cultures and traditions, and develops a genealogy of amazons, sapphists, and passionate friends. An ensuing chapter asks whether lesbianism is a "choice", and if so, what this really means and what is at stake in looking at it this way. In part 2...
Ryan recently came out of the closet and now he's at a new school. Plenty of boys want him but he's still trying to figure himself out.
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!