Category: Gay Lesbian

By Monique Wittig

Those political, philosophical, and literary essays mark the 1st choice of theoretical writing from the acclaimed novelist and French feminist author Monique Wittig.

By Maximilien Rubel (auth.)

By Taylor Anderson

By Lorraine Gates Schuyler

After the ratification of the 19th modification in 1920, thousands of southern ladies went to the polls for the 1st time. within the Weight in their Votes Lorraine Gates Schuyler examines the results this had in states around the South. She indicates that from polling locations to the halls of nation legislatures, ladies altered the political panorama in methods either symbolic and important. Schuyler demanding situations well known scholarly opinion that girls did not wield their ballots successfully within the Twenties, arguing as a substitute that during kingdom and native politics, girls made the main in their votes.Schuyler explores get-out-the-vote campaigns staged by means of black and white ladies within the area and the reaction of white politicians to the unexpected growth of the voters. regardless of the cultural expectancies of southern womanhood and the hindrances of ballot taxes, literacy assessments, and different suffrage regulations, southern ladies took benefit of their vote casting energy, Schuyler indicates. Black ladies mobilized to problem disfranchisement and grab their correct to vote. White girls lobbied kingdom legislators for coverage alterations and threatened their representatives with political defeat in the event that they didn't heed women's coverage calls for. hence, whilst southern Democrats remained in energy, the social welfare guidelines and public spending priorities of southern states replaced within the Twenties because of girl suffrage.

By Nel Noddings

From Library Journal
Noddings (education, Stanford Univ.) provides leading edge and insightful feedback of conventional understandings of the concept that of evil; she then is going directly to build a humanitarian (rather than polemically feminist) replacement to either the idea that as culture has given us to appreciate it--effeminate, materialist, aware of violence--and recommendations for re-educating our tradition morally--to mediate, to perform moderation, to percentage with instead of oppose the opposite. Her take hold of of theological and philosophical heritage is sound, her writing concise and cogent, and her subject constantly well timed. Her e-book isn't excellent; students will suppose invited to reply to it. but such a lot libraries will want and need it, because it addresses readers attracted to women's reports, cultural anthropology, faith, and philosophy. obtainable to common readers besides. --Francisca Goldsmith, Berkeley P.L., Cal.

By E. Patrick Johnson

Giving voice to a inhabitants hardly ever stated in writings in regards to the South, candy Tea collects lifestyles tales from black homosexual males who have been born, raised, and proceed to reside within the southern usa. E. Patrick Johnson demanding situations stereotypes of the South as "backward" or "repressive," suggesting that those males draw upon the functionality of "southernness"—politeness, coded speech, and religiosity, for example—to valid themselves as participants of either southern and black cultures. while, Johnson argues, they set up those self same codes to set up and construct friendship networks and to discover sexual companions and lifestyles partners.Traveling to each southern nation, Johnson performed interviews with greater than seventy black homosexual males among the a long time of nineteen and ninety three. The voices gathered right here dispute the concept homosexual subcultures flourish essentially in northern, secular, city parts. as well as filling a spot within the sexual historical past of the South, candy Tea deals a window into the ways in which black homosexual males negotiate their sexual and racial identities with their southern cultural and spiritual identities. The narratives additionally show how they construct and retain neighborhood in lots of areas and actions, a few of which can seem to be antigay. finally, candy Tea validates the lives of those black homosexual males and reinforces the function of storytelling in either African American and southern cultures.

By William G. Hawkeswood

Homosexual black males, a thriving way of life of the black and homosexual groups, are doubly marginalized. besides different black males, they're as a rule portrayed within the media and literature as ''street nook men''--unemployed drifters, absentee fathers, substance abusers. within the higher homosexual group, they're an invisible minority. one of many kids , the 1st formal cultural examine of homosexual black males in Harlem, not just illuminates this section of America's homosexual inhabitants yet offers a much richer, extra different portrait of black men's lives than is often perceived. in line with years' in depth research--during which the writer lived in Harlem's homosexual community--including vast interviews with fifty-seven neighborhood participants, this publication depicts homosexual black men's lives in all their social, financial, and cultural complexity. William Hawkeswood takes us from the road into the houses and lives of his matters. He describes the frilly community of pals, known as ''family,'' that helps those males emotionally and financially, and the community's two-tiered fiscal constitution, comprising homosexual males and ''boys,'' or hustlers. Hawkeswood additionally explores what it ability for those males to be either homosexual and black. within the procedure, he makes the astonishing discovery that whereas the AIDS virus looms throughout them, it has now not but considerably affected the neighborhood of homosexual blacks who pick out their sexual companions completely from between Harlem's different homosexual black males.

By Sara Bell

By Kathe Koja

Love: it’s a triangle. warfare: is coming. Betrayal: is inevitable. intercourse: beware of the naughty puppets.

By Andrew R. Gottlieb

At the that means of Friendship among homosexual males takes readers past a standard exploration of homosexual sexuality and romantic relationships, into the area of spotting the significance of friendship to homosexual men. This book provides deep insights into various points of friendship between homosexual men, including mentorship, spirituality, survival, and partnership. Leading gay authors offer a wide variety of views on the unique personality of those friendships in this intimate and intensely obtainable booklet.