31 books in Social Science - Lesbian Studies
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Prairie Silence
A Memoir
Written by Melanie Hoffert
Format: Hardcover, 248 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $24.95
A rural expatriate’s struggle to reconcile family, home, love, and faith with the silence of the prairie land and its people
Melanie Hoffert longs for her North Dakota childhood home, with its grain trucks and empty main streets. A land where she imagines standing at the bottom of the ancient lake that... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Melanie Hoffert
Format: Hardcover, 248 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $24.95
A rural expatriate’s struggle to reconcile family, home, love, and faith with the silence of the prairie land and its people
Melanie Hoffert longs for her North Dakota childhood home, with its grain trucks and empty main streets. A land where she imagines standing at the bottom of the ancient lake that... Read more >
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Prairie Silence
A Memoir
Written by Melanie Hoffert
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $24.95
A rural expatriate’s struggle to reconcile family, home, love, and faith with the silence of the prairie land and its people
Melanie Hoffert longs for her North Dakota childhood home, with its grain trucks and empty main streets. A land where she imagines standing at the bottom of the ancient lake that... Read more >
A Memoir
Written by Melanie Hoffert
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 8, 2013
Price: $24.95
A rural expatriate’s struggle to reconcile family, home, love, and faith with the silence of the prairie land and its people
Melanie Hoffert longs for her North Dakota childhood home, with its grain trucks and empty main streets. A land where she imagines standing at the bottom of the ancient lake that... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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A Queer History of the United States
Written by Michael Bronski
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $17.00
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction
A Queer History of the United States is more than a “who’s who” of queer history: it is a book that radically challenges how we understand American history. Drawing upon primary-source documents, literature, and cultural histories, scholar and activist Michael Bronski... Read more >
Written by Michael Bronski
Format: Trade Paperback, 312 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $17.00
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction
A Queer History of the United States is more than a “who’s who” of queer history: it is a book that radically challenges how we understand American history. Drawing upon primary-source documents, literature, and cultural histories, scholar and activist Michael Bronski... Read more >
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Sister Outsider
Essays and Speeches
Written by Audre Lorde
Foreword by Cheryl Clarke
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2012
Price: $12.99
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change... Read more >
Essays and Speeches
Written by Audre Lorde
Foreword by Cheryl Clarke
Format: eBook, 192 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2012
Price: $12.99
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
God vs. Gay?
The Religious Case for Equality
Written by Jay Michaelson
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $25.95
Does the Bible prohibit homosexuality? No, says Bible scholar and activist Jay Michaelson. But not only that: Michaelson also shows that the vast majority of our shared religious traditions support the full equality and dignity of LGBT people. In this accessible, passionate, and provocative book, Michaelson argues for equality, not despite... Read more >
The Religious Case for Equality
Written by Jay Michaelson
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $25.95
Does the Bible prohibit homosexuality? No, says Bible scholar and activist Jay Michaelson. But not only that: Michaelson also shows that the vast majority of our shared religious traditions support the full equality and dignity of LGBT people. In this accessible, passionate, and provocative book, Michaelson argues for equality, not despite... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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God vs. Gay?
The Religious Case for Equality
Written by Jay Michaelson
Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $25.95
Does the Bible prohibit homosexuality? No, says Bible scholar and activist Jay Michaelson. But not only that: Michaelson also shows that the vast majority of our shared religious traditions support the full equality and dignity of LGBT people. In this accessible, passionate, and provocative book, Michaelson argues for equality, not despite... Read more >
The Religious Case for Equality
Written by Jay Michaelson
Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
On Sale: October 25, 2011
Price: $25.95
Does the Bible prohibit homosexuality? No, says Bible scholar and activist Jay Michaelson. But not only that: Michaelson also shows that the vast majority of our shared religious traditions support the full equality and dignity of LGBT people. In this accessible, passionate, and provocative book, Michaelson argues for equality, not despite... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
True Secrets of Lesbian Desire
Keeping Sex Alive in Long-Term Relationships
Written by Renate Stendhal
Foreword by Jewelle Gomez
Format: eBook, 136 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $13.99
Stendhal examines the "shadow" in lesbian relationships that descends when women bond so completely that the intimacy becomes a merging, obliterating the space between individuals where desire lies. Lesbian bed death, the topic of so many comediennes, is examined and reined in, no longer an inevitable result of a solid relationship... Read more >
Keeping Sex Alive in Long-Term Relationships
Written by Renate Stendhal
Foreword by Jewelle Gomez
Format: eBook, 136 pages
On Sale: October 18, 2011
Price: $13.99
Stendhal examines the "shadow" in lesbian relationships that descends when women bond so completely that the intimacy becomes a merging, obliterating the space between individuals where desire lies. Lesbian bed death, the topic of so many comediennes, is examined and reined in, no longer an inevitable result of a solid relationship... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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From the Closet to the Courtroom
Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation
Written by Carlos A. Ball and Michael Bronski
Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $18.00
Engaging and largely untold, From the Closet to the Courtroom explores how five pivotal lawsuits have altered LGBT history. Beginning each case narrative at the center—with the litigants and their lawyers—law professor Carlos Ball follows the stories behind each crucial lawsuit. He traces the parties from their communities to the courtroom... Read more >
Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation
Written by Carlos A. Ball and Michael Bronski
Format: Trade Paperback, 296 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $18.00
Engaging and largely untold, From the Closet to the Courtroom explores how five pivotal lawsuits have altered LGBT history. Beginning each case narrative at the center—with the litigants and their lawyers—law professor Carlos Ball follows the stories behind each crucial lawsuit. He traces the parties from their communities to the courtroom... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Nina Here Nor There
My Journey Beyond Gender
Written by Nick Krieger
Format: Trade Paperback, 216 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $15.00
Honor Book for the 2012 Stonewall Book Awards in non-fiction
The next-generation Stone Butch Blues--a contemporary memoir of gender awakening and a classic tale of first love and self-discovery.
Ambitious, sporty, feminine “capital-L lesbians” had been Nina Krieger’s type, for friends that is. She hadn’t dated in seven years, a period of... Read more >
My Journey Beyond Gender
Written by Nick Krieger
Format: Trade Paperback, 216 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $15.00
Honor Book for the 2012 Stonewall Book Awards in non-fiction
The next-generation Stone Butch Blues--a contemporary memoir of gender awakening and a classic tale of first love and self-discovery.
Ambitious, sporty, feminine “capital-L lesbians” had been Nina Krieger’s type, for friends that is. She hadn’t dated in seven years, a period of... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Nina Here Nor There
Written by Nick Krieger
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $15.00
Honor Book for the 2012 Stonewall Book Awards in non-fiction
The next-generation Stone Butch Blues--a contemporary memoir of gender awakening and a classic tale of first love and self-discovery.
Ambitious, sporty, feminine “capital-L lesbians” had been Nina Krieger’s type, for friends that is. She hadn’t dated in seven years, a period of... Read more >
Written by Nick Krieger
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $15.00
Honor Book for the 2012 Stonewall Book Awards in non-fiction
The next-generation Stone Butch Blues--a contemporary memoir of gender awakening and a classic tale of first love and self-discovery.
Ambitious, sporty, feminine “capital-L lesbians” had been Nina Krieger’s type, for friends that is. She hadn’t dated in seven years, a period of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
A Queer History of the United States
Written by Michael Bronski
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $27.95
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction
The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present.
In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism, and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima Wilkinson, in... Read more >
Written by Michael Bronski
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $27.95
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction
The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present.
In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism, and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima Wilkinson, in... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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A Queer History of the United States
Written by Michael Bronski
Format: Hardcover, 312 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $27.95
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction
The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present.
In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism, and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima Wilkinson, in... Read more >
Written by Michael Bronski
Format: Hardcover, 312 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2011
Price: $27.95
Winner of a 2012 Stonewall Book Award in nonfiction
The first book to cover the entirety of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender history, from pre-1492 to the present.
In the 1620s, Thomas Morton broke from Plymouth Colony and founded Merrymount, which celebrated same-sex desire, atheism, and interracial marriage. Transgender evangelist Jemima Wilkinson, in... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Zami A New Spelling of My Name: A New Spelling of My Name
A Biomythography
Written by Geraldine Audre Lorde
Format: eBook, 264 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2011
Price: $14.99
“ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings into play her craft of... Read more >
A Biomythography
Written by Geraldine Audre Lorde
Format: eBook, 264 pages
On Sale: March 16, 2011
Price: $14.99
“ZAMI is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings into play her craft of... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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She Looks Just Like You
A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood
Written by Amie Klempnauer Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
On Sale: March 15, 2011
Price: $16.00
After ten years of talking about having children, two years of trying (and failing) to conceive, and one shot of donor sperm for her partner, Amie Miller was about to become a mother. Or something like that. Over the next nine months, as her partner became the biological mom-to-be, Miller became... Read more >
A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood
Written by Amie Klempnauer Miller
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
On Sale: March 15, 2011
Price: $16.00
After ten years of talking about having children, two years of trying (and failing) to conceive, and one shot of donor sperm for her partner, Amie Miller was about to become a mother. Or something like that. Over the next nine months, as her partner became the biological mom-to-be, Miller became... Read more >
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Conversations
Straight Talk with America's Sister President
Written by Johnnetta B. Cole
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: March 2, 2011
Price: $11.99
Dr. Cole speaks directly to her younger sisters--America's Black women--and calls out to them to take or active role, as she is doing, to help make their world a better place.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Straight Talk with America's Sister President
Written by Johnnetta B. Cole
Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: March 2, 2011
Price: $11.99
Dr. Cole speaks directly to her younger sisters--America's Black women--and calls out to them to take or active role, as she is doing, to help make their world a better place.
From the Trade Paperback edition. Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Come Out and Win
Organizing Yourself, Your Community, and Your World
Written by Sue Hyde
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2010
Price: $12.00
Come Out and Win will educate, engage, and agitate LGBT and straight activists to become involved in the political movement to win full equality under the law and sexual/gender freedom. Spurring a new generation of activists to positive social action, it not only tells the history of gay liberation but, crucially... Read more >
Organizing Yourself, Your Community, and Your World
Written by Sue Hyde
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2010
Price: $12.00
Come Out and Win will educate, engage, and agitate LGBT and straight activists to become involved in the political movement to win full equality under the law and sexual/gender freedom. Spurring a new generation of activists to positive social action, it not only tells the history of gay liberation but, crucially... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Homophobia
How We All Pay the Price
Edited by Warren Blumenfeld
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2010
Price: $20.00
Read more >
How We All Pay the Price
Edited by Warren Blumenfeld
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2010
Price: $20.00
Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Out Law
What LGBT Youth Should Know about Their Legal Rights
Written by Lisa Keen
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2010
Price: $12.00
The enormous advances of the civil rights movement have made it easier for LGBT youth to be "out," yet their increased visibility has led to myriad legal issues involving such critical matters as freedom of expression, sexual harassment, self-chosen medical care, and even their right to privacy within their own families.
In... Read more >
What LGBT Youth Should Know about Their Legal Rights
Written by Lisa Keen
Format: eBook
On Sale: July 1, 2010
Price: $12.00
The enormous advances of the civil rights movement have made it easier for LGBT youth to be "out," yet their increased visibility has led to myriad legal issues involving such critical matters as freedom of expression, sexual harassment, self-chosen medical care, and even their right to privacy within their own families.
In... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
From the Closet to the Courtroom
Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation
Written by Carlos A. Ball and Michael Bronski
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $27.95
The advancement of LGBT rights has occurred through struggles large and small-on the streets, around kitchen tables, and on the Web. Lawsuits have also played a vital role in propelling the movement forward, and behind every case is a human story: a landlord in New York seeks to evict a gay... Read more >
Five LGBT Rights Lawsuits That Have Changed Our Nation
Written by Carlos A. Ball and Michael Bronski
Format: eBook
On Sale: June 1, 2010
Price: $27.95
The advancement of LGBT rights has occurred through struggles large and small-on the streets, around kitchen tables, and on the Web. Lawsuits have also played a vital role in propelling the movement forward, and behind every case is a human story: a landlord in New York seeks to evict a gay... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
She Looks Just Like You
A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood
Written by Amie Klempnauer Miller
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $24.95
After ten years of talking about children, two years of trying (and failing) to conceive, and one shot of donor sperm for her partner, Amie Miller was about to become a mother. Or something like that.
Over the next nine months, as her partner became the biological mom-to-be, Miller became . ... Read more >
A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood
Written by Amie Klempnauer Miller
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Price: $24.95
After ten years of talking about children, two years of trying (and failing) to conceive, and one shot of donor sperm for her partner, Amie Miller was about to become a mother. Or something like that.
Over the next nine months, as her partner became the biological mom-to-be, Miller became . ... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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She Looks Just Like You
A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood
Written by Amie Klempnauer Miller
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2010
Price: $24.95
After ten years of talking about children, two years of trying (and failing) to conceive, and one shot of donor sperm for her partner, Amie Miller was about to become a mother. Or something like that.
Over the next nine months, as her partner became the biological mom-to-be, Miller became . ... Read more >
A Memoir of (Nonbiological Lesbian) Motherhood
Written by Amie Klempnauer Miller
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2010
Price: $24.95
After ten years of talking about children, two years of trying (and failing) to conceive, and one shot of donor sperm for her partner, Amie Miller was about to become a mother. Or something like that.
Over the next nine months, as her partner became the biological mom-to-be, Miller became . ... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage
Valuing All Families under the Law
Written by Nancy D. Polikoff and Michael Bronski
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2009
Price: $18.00
Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage reframes the family-rights debate by arguing that marriage shouldn't bestow special legal privileges upon couples because people, both heterosexual and LGBT, live in a variety of relationships-including unmarried couples of any sexual orientation, single-parent households, extended biological family units, and myriad other familial configurations. Nancy D... Read more >
Valuing All Families under the Law
Written by Nancy D. Polikoff and Michael Bronski
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2009
Price: $18.00
Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage reframes the family-rights debate by arguing that marriage shouldn't bestow special legal privileges upon couples because people, both heterosexual and LGBT, live in a variety of relationships-including unmarried couples of any sexual orientation, single-parent households, extended biological family units, and myriad other familial configurations. Nancy D... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Drifting Toward Love
Black, Brown, Gay, and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York
Written by Kai Wright
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2009
Price: $16.00
In Drifting Toward Love, journalist Kai Wright introduces us to Manny, Julius, Carlos, and their friends, young gay men of color desperately searching for life's basic necessities. With these vivid, intimate portraits, Wright reveals both their heroism and their mistakes, placing their stories into a larger social context. Read more >
Black, Brown, Gay, and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York
Written by Kai Wright
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 1, 2009
Price: $16.00
In Drifting Toward Love, journalist Kai Wright introduces us to Manny, Julius, Carlos, and their friends, young gay men of color desperately searching for life's basic necessities. With these vivid, intimate portraits, Wright reveals both their heroism and their mistakes, placing their stories into a larger social context. Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
Drifting Toward Love
Black, Brown, Gay, and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York
Written by Kai Wright
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 15, 2008
Price: $16.00
Drifting Toward Love tells the stories of Manny, Julius, Carlos, and their friends, young gay men of color desperately searching for life's basic necessities: homes that provide more than shelter and security against more than violence or disease. As these teenagers navigate the rocky waters of adolescence, they wade through pains... Read more >
Black, Brown, Gay, and Coming of Age on the Streets of New York
Written by Kai Wright
Format: eBook
On Sale: January 15, 2008
Price: $16.00
Drifting Toward Love tells the stories of Manny, Julius, Carlos, and their friends, young gay men of color desperately searching for life's basic necessities: homes that provide more than shelter and security against more than violence or disease. As these teenagers navigate the rocky waters of adolescence, they wade through pains... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Sister Outsider
Essays and Speeches
Written by Audre Lorde
Foreword by Cheryl Clarke
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2007
Price: $16.99
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change... Read more >
Essays and Speeches
Written by Audre Lorde
Foreword by Cheryl Clarke
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 1, 2007
Price: $16.99
Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, SISTER OUTSIDER celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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