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Forrest Bess
Key to the Riddle
Written by Chuck Smith
Foreword by Robert Thurman
Format: Hardcover, 168 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $40.00
Painter, fisherman, pseudo-hermaphrodite—Forrest Bess lived his life in obscurity at an isolated bait camp off the east coast of Texas. From 1949 through 1967, Bess showed at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York City, alongside superstar artists such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Rediscovered after his death in 1977... Read more >
Key to the Riddle
Written by Chuck Smith
Foreword by Robert Thurman
Format: Hardcover, 168 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $40.00
Painter, fisherman, pseudo-hermaphrodite—Forrest Bess lived his life in obscurity at an isolated bait camp off the east coast of Texas. From 1949 through 1967, Bess showed at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York City, alongside superstar artists such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Rediscovered after his death in 1977... Read more >
Gender and Sexuality For Beginners
Written by Jaimee Garbacik
Illustrated by Jeffrey Lewis
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $16.99
We should not need to prove our experiences, defend our realities, or negotiate basic human rights. But we do.
What does sexual orientation mean if the very categories of gender are in question? How do we measure equality when our society's definitions of "male" and "female" leave out much of the population?... Read more >
Written by Jaimee Garbacik
Illustrated by Jeffrey Lewis
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $16.99
We should not need to prove our experiences, defend our realities, or negotiate basic human rights. But we do.
What does sexual orientation mean if the very categories of gender are in question? How do we measure equality when our society's definitions of "male" and "female" leave out much of the population?... Read more >
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Gender and Sexuality For Beginners
Written by Jaimee Garbacik
Illustrated by Jeffrey Lewis
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $16.99
We should not need to prove our experiences, defend our realities, or negotiate basic human rights. But we do.
What does sexual orientation mean if the very categories of gender are in question? How do we measure equality when our society's definitions of "male" and "female" leave out much of the population?... Read more >
Written by Jaimee Garbacik
Illustrated by Jeffrey Lewis
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $16.99
We should not need to prove our experiences, defend our realities, or negotiate basic human rights. But we do.
What does sexual orientation mean if the very categories of gender are in question? How do we measure equality when our society's definitions of "male" and "female" leave out much of the population?... Read more >
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eBook.
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A Queer and Pleasant Danger
The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today
Written by Kate Bornstein
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $16.00
The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today
From the Hardcover edition. Read more >
The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today
Written by Kate Bornstein
Format: Trade Paperback
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Price: $16.00
The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today
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The Last Men on Top
Written by Susan Jacoby
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $2.99
A feminist—and the bestselling author of The Age of American Unreason—looks back at the last pre-feminist generation of men who supposedly had it all and asks: what exactly did they have?
How fabulous was life for men in the 1950s and early 1960s? How real is the world depicted by a television... Read more >
Written by Susan Jacoby
Format: eBook, 64 pages
On Sale: April 23, 2013
Price: $2.99
A feminist—and the bestselling author of The Age of American Unreason—looks back at the last pre-feminist generation of men who supposedly had it all and asks: what exactly did they have?
How fabulous was life for men in the 1950s and early 1960s? How real is the world depicted by a television... Read more >
Conundrum
Written by Jan Morris
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $14.00
The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married, with several children. To all appearances, he... Read more >
Written by Jan Morris
Format: eBook, 176 pages
On Sale: April 17, 2013
Price: $14.00
The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married, with several children. To all appearances, he... Read more >
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Dirt Work
An Education in the Woods
Written by Christine Byl
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $24.95
An Education in the Woods
Written by Christine Byl
Format: Hardcover, 256 pages
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $24.95
A lively and lyrical account of one woman’s unlikely apprenticeship on a national-park trail crew and what she discovers about nature, gender, and the value of hard work
Christine Byl first encountered the national parks the way most of us do: on vacation. But after she graduated from college, broke and ready...
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Dirt Work
An Education in the Woods
Written by Christine Byl
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $24.95
An Education in the Woods
Written by Christine Byl
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 16, 2013
Price: $24.95
A lively and lyrical account of one woman’s unlikely apprenticeship on a national-park trail crew and what she discovers about nature, gender, and the value of hard work
Christine Byl first encountered the national parks the way most of us do: on vacation. But after she graduated from college, broke and ready...
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Fanpire
The Twilight Saga and the Women Who Love it
Written by Tanya Erzen
Format: Hardcover, 184 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $24.95
An author immerses herself in the frenzied fandom of Twilight, the young-adult vampire romance series that has captivated women of all ages
Twilight, Stephenie Meyer’s young-adult vampire romance series, has captivated women of all ages, from teenagers who swoon over the film adaptations to college-educated women who devour the novels as a... Read more >
The Twilight Saga and the Women Who Love it
Written by Tanya Erzen
Format: Hardcover, 184 pages
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $24.95
An author immerses herself in the frenzied fandom of Twilight, the young-adult vampire romance series that has captivated women of all ages
Twilight, Stephenie Meyer’s young-adult vampire romance series, has captivated women of all ages, from teenagers who swoon over the film adaptations to college-educated women who devour the novels as a... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Fanpire
The Twilight Saga and the Women Who Love it
Written by Tanya Erzen
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $24.95
An author immerses herself in the frenzied fandom of Twilight, the young-adult vampire romance series that has captivated women of all ages
Twilight, Stephenie Meyer’s young-adult vampire romance series, has captivated women of all ages, from teenagers who swoon over the film adaptations to college-educated women who devour the novels as a... Read more >
The Twilight Saga and the Women Who Love it
Written by Tanya Erzen
Format: eBook
On Sale: October 30, 2012
Price: $24.95
An author immerses herself in the frenzied fandom of Twilight, the young-adult vampire romance series that has captivated women of all ages
Twilight, Stephenie Meyer’s young-adult vampire romance series, has captivated women of all ages, from teenagers who swoon over the film adaptations to college-educated women who devour the novels as a... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Gaga Feminism
Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal
Written by J. Jack Halberstam
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $26.95
A roadmap to sex and gender for the twenty-first century, using Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new kind of feminism
Why are so many women single, so many men resisting marriage, and so many gays and lesbians having babies?
In Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal, J. Jack Halberstam... Read more >
Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal
Written by J. Jack Halberstam
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $26.95
A roadmap to sex and gender for the twenty-first century, using Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new kind of feminism
Why are so many women single, so many men resisting marriage, and so many gays and lesbians having babies?
In Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal, J. Jack Halberstam... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Gaga Feminism
Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal
Written by J. Jack Halberstam
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $26.95
A roadmap to sex and gender for the twenty-first century, using Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new kind of feminism
Why are so many women single, so many men resisting marriage, and so many gays and lesbians having babies?
In Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal, J. Jack Halberstam... Read more >
Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal
Written by J. Jack Halberstam
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 18, 2012
Price: $26.95
A roadmap to sex and gender for the twenty-first century, using Lady Gaga as a symbol for a new kind of feminism
Why are so many women single, so many men resisting marriage, and so many gays and lesbians having babies?
In Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal, J. Jack Halberstam... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
Finding Fernanda
Two Mothers, One Child, and a Cross-Border Search for Truth
Written by Erin Siegal
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $16.00
A compelling, dramatic narrative of how an American housewife discovered that the Guatemalan child she was about to adopt had been stolen from her birth mother, shedding light on the alarming and growing problem of international adoption fraud.
Over the past five years, over 100,000 children were adopted into the United States... Read more >
Two Mothers, One Child, and a Cross-Border Search for Truth
Written by Erin Siegal
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $16.00
A compelling, dramatic narrative of how an American housewife discovered that the Guatemalan child she was about to adopt had been stolen from her birth mother, shedding light on the alarming and growing problem of international adoption fraud.
Over the past five years, over 100,000 children were adopted into the United States... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
A Queer and Pleasant Danger
The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today
Written by Kate Bornstein
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $25.95
A stunningly original memoir of a nice Jewish boy who joined the Church of Scientology and left twelve years later, ultimately transitioning to a woman. A few years later, she stopped calling herself a woman and became famous as a gender outlaw.
Kate Bornstein—gender theorist, performance artist, author—is set to change lives... Read more >
The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today
Written by Kate Bornstein
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $25.95
A stunningly original memoir of a nice Jewish boy who joined the Church of Scientology and left twelve years later, ultimately transitioning to a woman. A few years later, she stopped calling herself a woman and became famous as a gender outlaw.
Kate Bornstein—gender theorist, performance artist, author—is set to change lives... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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A Queer and Pleasant Danger
The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today
Written by Kate Bornstein
Format: Hardcover, 280 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $24.95
The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today Read more >
The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology, and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today
Written by Kate Bornstein
Format: Hardcover, 280 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2012
Price: $24.95
The true story of a nice Jewish boy who joins the Church of Scientology and leaves twelve years later to become the lovely lady she is today Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Queer (In)Justice
The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
Written by Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie and Kay Whitlock
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $18.00
Winner of the 2011 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency
A groundbreaking work that turns a “queer eye” on the criminal legal system, Queer (In)Justice is a searing examination of queer experiences—as “suspects,” defendants, prisoners, and survivors of crime. The authors unpack queer... Read more >
The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
Written by Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie and Kay Whitlock
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: January 24, 2012
Price: $18.00
Winner of the 2011 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency
A groundbreaking work that turns a “queer eye” on the criminal legal system, Queer (In)Justice is a searing examination of queer experiences—as “suspects,” defendants, prisoners, and survivors of crime. The authors unpack queer... Read more >
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American Plastic
Boob Jobs, Credit Cards, and Our Quest for Perfection
Written by Laurie Essig
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $20.00
The story of how credit and cosmetic surgery have created a subprime mortgage crisis of the body.
In this provocative book, sociologist Laurie Essig traces the history of plastic surgery, tracks the effect of fashion and porn on our desire to "fix" ourselves, and explores our image- and youth-obsessed culture. In over... Read more >
Boob Jobs, Credit Cards, and Our Quest for Perfection
Written by Laurie Essig
Format: Trade Paperback, 248 pages
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Price: $20.00
The story of how credit and cosmetic surgery have created a subprime mortgage crisis of the body.
In this provocative book, sociologist Laurie Essig traces the history of plastic surgery, tracks the effect of fashion and porn on our desire to "fix" ourselves, and explores our image- and youth-obsessed culture. In over... Read more >
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Gay in America
Photographed by Scott Pasfield
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $45.00
In this first-ever photographic survey of gay men in America, stereotypes are laid to rest and an intimate, honest picture of contemporary gay life is revealed through stunning personal portraits and narratives.
Photographer Scott Pasfield traveled 54,000 miles across all fifty states over a two-year span gathering stories and... Read more >
Photographed by Scott Pasfield
Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
On Sale: September 27, 2011
Price: $45.00
In this first-ever photographic survey of gay men in America, stereotypes are laid to rest and an intimate, honest picture of contemporary gay life is revealed through stunning personal portraits and narratives.
Photographer Scott Pasfield traveled 54,000 miles across all fifty states over a two-year span gathering stories and... Read more >
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Idols
Written by Gilles Larrain
Contribution by Ryan McGinley
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $35.00
“I can’t remember when I first saw the book Idols by Gilles Larrain. All I know is that ever since I got it, it’s been a huge influenceon me. Idols is one of the best photographic books I’ve ever seen. It was published in 1973 and is a collection of studio... Read more >
Written by Gilles Larrain
Contribution by Ryan McGinley
Format: Hardcover, 144 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2011
Price: $35.00
“I can’t remember when I first saw the book Idols by Gilles Larrain. All I know is that ever since I got it, it’s been a huge influenceon me. Idols is one of the best photographic books I’ve ever seen. It was published in 1973 and is a collection of studio... Read more >
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Last Gift of Time
Written by Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2011
Price: $11.99
When she was young, distinguished author and critic Carolyn Heilbrun solemnly vowed to end her life when she turned seventy. But on the advent of that fateful birthday, she realized that her golden years had been full of unforeseen pleasures. Now, the astute and ever-insightful Heilbrun muses on the emotional and... Read more >
Written by Carolyn G. Heilbrun
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: July 20, 2011
Price: $11.99
When she was young, distinguished author and critic Carolyn Heilbrun solemnly vowed to end her life when she turned seventy. But on the advent of that fateful birthday, she realized that her golden years had been full of unforeseen pleasures. Now, the astute and ever-insightful Heilbrun muses on the emotional and... Read more >
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It's Always Darkest Before Dawn
Contribution by Eric C. Shiner and Ladyfag
Photographed by Jeremy Kost
Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2011
Price: $49.95
For nearly a decade, through his enigmatic and compelling Polaroids, Jeremy Kost has been telling the stories of New York nights from within its hottest party spots.
In 2002, while staying with friends in Chelsea, Kost borrowed the camera of one of his hosts and took it to The Cock. Ever since that fateful night... Read more >
Contribution by Eric C. Shiner and Ladyfag
Photographed by Jeremy Kost
Format: Hardcover, 80 pages
On Sale: May 20, 2011
Price: $49.95
For nearly a decade, through his enigmatic and compelling Polaroids, Jeremy Kost has been telling the stories of New York nights from within its hottest party spots.
In 2002, while staying with friends in Chelsea, Kost borrowed the camera of one of his hosts and took it to The Cock. Ever since that fateful night... Read more >
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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.
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The Sweetest Thing
A Boxer's Memoir
Written by Mischa Merz
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $18.95
Journalist and amateur boxer Mischa Merz fulfills a long-held ambition to travel across the United States and compete in a series of amateur boxing tournaments. On this wild and fascinating journey she meets her idols, including Lucia Rijker of Million Dollar Baby fame, and some other truly extraordinary characters. Merz discovers... Read more >
A Boxer's Memoir
Written by Mischa Merz
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 5, 2011
Price: $18.95
Journalist and amateur boxer Mischa Merz fulfills a long-held ambition to travel across the United States and compete in a series of amateur boxing tournaments. On this wild and fascinating journey she meets her idols, including Lucia Rijker of Million Dollar Baby fame, and some other truly extraordinary characters. Merz discovers... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Queer (In)Justice
The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
Written by Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie and Kay Whitlock
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: February 15, 2011
Price: $27.95
The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States
Written by Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie and Kay Whitlock
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: February 15, 2011
Price: $27.95
A groundbreaking work that turns a “queer eye” on the criminal legal system, and winner of the 2011 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency
Drawing on years of research, activism, and legal advocacy, Queer (In)Justice is a searing examination of queer experiences--as "suspects," defendants...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
