Gay & Lesbian

The changing political landscape requires new understandings of the social conditions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people for which the term homophobia is inadequate. The author develops a theory of heterosexism to conceptualize LGBT oppression and provides examples from everyday... More

This book is a lively and accessible biographical guide to lesbian and gay literary culture from Sappho to modern pulp fiction. It includes fascinating entries on authors from W.H. Auden to Alice Walker, James Baldwin to Virginia Wolff, and also includes works of those who have theorized lesbian and... More

Edith Craig is at last taken out of the shadows cast by her famous relatives, her mother Ellen Terry and her brother Edward Gordon Craig. As a woman and as a lesbian Edith Craig found that her work in stage and film received uneven critical attention, sometimes ignored, frequently undervalued. Her a... More

The gay cultures of Latin America expressed themselves in a variety of ways artistically, from the early 19th century to the present. "Images of Ambiente" traces the development of such art and reflects the backlash against gay American influences.... More

Foreword by HRH The Princess of Wales Published to celebrate the loth anniversary of London Lighthouse, On Watch collects together essays by Lighthouse founding member and former director, Christopher Spence, MBE. He tells the inside story of the project from genesis to royal opening to current chal... More

This insightful and lively book examines the consumption of the lesbian idols kd lang and Martina Navratilova by their many lesbian fans in contemporary society, through an analysis of lesbian recognition, identification and desire.Allen suggests that the star-fan relationship existing between these... More

This stimulating book investigates the intention, meaning and impact of existing concepts of justice regarding the legal status of lesbians and gay men. Contributors attempt to assess whether current ideas of justice are, or can be, relevant to lesbian and gay campaigns against discrimination. Can c... More

In 1997 it will be thirty years since the Sexual Offences Act of 1967 made sex between two men aged over 21 in private no longer a crime. It also marks the seventieth birthday of Antony Grey, who was one of the leading campaigners for homosexual law reform in the 1960s.The articles and talks reprint... More

Lesbiand and gay men become parents in many different ways: through hetero-sexual marriages, artificial insemination, formal and informal arrangements with straight or gay donor fathers, surrogacy, fostering and adoption. They receive a wide variety of responses to becoming parents. Through intervie... More

This book is a complete handbook on pregnancy covering conception, prenatal labour and postnatal care. It is valuable guide for prospective parents and expectant mothers. The format of the book in the question-answer forms makes the book simpler, more direct and comprehensive.... More

Lush and beautiful, Cinnamon Gardens is a story of intertwined lives in the gracious world of Ceylon in the 1920s In a novel of exceptional achievement, Shyam Selvadurai evokes the life of the upper classes of Colombo's wealthy suburb, Cinnamon Gardens, at a time when the power of colonial rule ... More

This book introduces the students of sociologyto the main concepts and theories in a lucid and interesting style. The textbookwill enable him to understand the process of social change and the way itaffects development and progress. Beginning with the well-known concepts andtheories, it guides him t... More