History

In twenty-five years Aids has killed 25 million, one million for each year of the epidemic, and another 40 million have been infected – a total exceeding the population of Tamil Nadu. But why, when Aids is preventable? Many of these lives could have been saved and millions of infections could have... More

Placebo cures. Global warming. Extraterrestrial life. Psychokinesis. In a time when scientific claims can sound as strange as science fiction—and can have a profound effect on individual life or public policy—assessing the merits of a far-out, supposedly scientific idea can be as difficult as it... More

Was the American Cowboy gay? Judging from the earliest representations of cowboys and other frontier figures in popular literature--who typically preferred a "buddy" over a wife--the answer seems to be yes. Evidence from books by nineteenth-century Western writers (from legends such as James Fenimor... More

America's Struggle for Same-Sex Marriage chronicles the evolution of the social movement for same-sex marriage in the United States and examines the political controversies surrounding gay people's quest for access to the civil institution of marriage. The book focuses on the momentous events that b... More

One of the best-known and most versatile of Shakespearian scholars considers the extent to which sexual meaning in Shakespeare's writing relies on interpretation by actors, directors and critics. Tracing interpretations of Shakespearian "bawdy" and "innuendo" from the eighteenth-century to the prese... More

""Raising the Dead" is a "tour de force" filled with provocative, original, and imaginative observations and insights. Sharon Holland draws on a dazzling range of influences and interprets an impressive array of diverse cultural forms as she asks and answers crucial questions about ancestry, origins... More

During 1980 and 1990, a series of bitter political and culture battles over issues of sexuality convulsed the nation--battles over the regulation of pornography, the scope of legal protections for gay people, the funding of allegedly "obscene" art, the contents of safe-sex education, and more. This ... More

"An exhaustive, thoroughly researched work with a surprising 'you-are-there' readability."--Library Journal"English-speaking audiences have a number of reasons for reading The Pink and the Black, not the least of which are its detailed chronology of events and its extensive bibliography. By remainin... More

"Queer Cinema, the Film Reader "examines the relationship between cinematic representations of sexuality and their social, historical, and industrial contexts. Divided into an introductory overview and four topic areas, the reader explores how recent critical thinking has approached queer sexualitie... More

"Queering the Popular Pitch "is a new collection of 19 essays by leading scholars on popular music. Following Routledge's landmark 1994 collection, "Queering the Pitch," these scholars aim to situate queering within the discourse of sex and sexuality in relation to popular music. This investigation ... More

"Cultural Politics - Queer Reading" is a bold and enduring challenge to the assumptions that have shaped the study of English literature. It offers a widely influential investigation of the principles and practice that may inform dissident reading and a compelling argument for intellectual allegianc... More

In" The Sappho History," Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's poetry and her afterlife in literature and art from the mid 18th century to the present day. For women writers in the Romantic period, she symbolized possibility; for the young Tennyson, she was a private ancest... More

"A Queer History of the Ballet "is the first book-length study of ballet's queerness. It theorizes the queer potential of the ballet look, and provides historical analyses of queer artists and spectatorships. It demonstrates that ballet was a crucial means of coming to visibility, of evolving and ar... More

"This is one of the first major collections in English devoted solely to the crucial question of how certain groups were officially defined and treated as 'outsiders' in German society under the Nazis. The book takes a laudably wide and imaginative view of its subject, looking beyond the more famili... More

Jeffrey Escoffier traces the emergence of a gay and lesbian political identity over the last four decades in this wide-ranging collection of his most influential essays. Situating the development of gay and lesbian communities in a broad sweep of recent American history, Escoffier examines how an ur... More

This new volume of essays examines the relationship between Catholicism and homosexuality. Why did so many literary Modernists embrace Catholicism? What is their relationship between historical homophobia and contemporary struggles between the Church and the homosexual? Moving from the Gothic to the... More

Until "Masculine Interests" not much had been written about men "as men" in the cinema. Now Robert Lang considers how Hollywood articulates the eroticism that is intrinsic to identification between men. He considers masculinity in social and psychoanalytic terms, maintaining that a major function of... More