Homosexualities

Stephen O Murray

• Hardcover | Engels | Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Sexuality, Gender, and Culture
• Breathtaking in its historical and geographical scope, this book provides a sweeping examination of the construction of male and female homosexualitie... Lees meer

Gay Men's Friendships

Peter M Nardi

• Paperback | Engels | Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Sexuality, Gender, and Culture
• Based on surveys and interviews of two hundred gay men, Peter Nardi's new study presents the first book-length examination of contemporary urban gay m... Lees meer

The Emerging Lesbian

Tze-Lan D Sang

• Paperback | Engels | Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Sexuality, Gender, and Culture
• Focusing especially on literature by or about women-preferring women, Sang traces the history of female same-sex relations in China from the late Impe... Lees meer

Temporarily Yours

Elizabeth Bernstein

• Paperback | Engels | Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Sexuality, Gender, and Culture
• Generations of social thinkers have assumed that access to legitimate paid employment and a decline in the 'double standard' would eliminate the reaso... Lees meer

The Comfort Women

C Sarah Soh

• Paperback | Engels | Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Sexuality, Gender, and Culture
• In an era marked by atrocities perpetrated on a grand scale, the tragedy of the so-called comfort women--mostly Korean women forced into prostitution ... Lees meer

The Night Is Young

Héctor Carrillo

• Paperback | Engels | Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Sexuality, Gender, and Culture
• The Night Is Young takes us past the stereotypes of macho hombres and dark-eyed señoritas to reveal the complex nature of sexuality in modern-day Mexi... Lees meer

The Cassowary's Revenge

Donald Tuzin

• Paperback | Engels | Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Sexuality, Gender, and Culture
• Donald Tuzin first studied the New Guinea village of Ilahita in 1972. When he returned many years later, he arrived in the aftermath of a startling ev... Lees meer

With Respect to Sex

Gayatri Reddy

• Paperback | Engels | Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Sexuality, Gender, and Culture
• With Respect to Sex is an intimate ethnography that offers a provocative account of sexual and social difference in India. The subjects of this study ... Lees meer

Coyote Nation

Pablo Mitchell

• Paperback | Engels | Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Sexuality, Gender, and Culture
• With the arrival of the transcontinental railroad in the 1880s came the emergence of a modern and profoundly multicultural New Mexico. Native American... Lees meer

Travesti

Don Kulick

• Paperback | Engels | Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Sexuality, Gender, and Culture
• In this dramatic and compelling narrative, anthropologist Don Kulick follows the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes (called travestis in Po... Lees meer

Mema's House, Mexico City

Annick Prieur

• Paperback | Engels | Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Sexuality, Gender, and Culture
• Mema's house is in the poor barrio Nezahualcoyotl, a crowded urban space on the outskirts of Mexico City where people survive with the help of family,... Lees meer

Caribbean Pleasure Industry

Mark Padilla

• Paperback | Engels | Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Sexuality, Gender, and Culture
• In recent years, the economy of the Caribbean has become almost completely dependent on international tourism. And today one of the chief ways that fo... Lees meer

Queer Forster

• Paperback | Engels | Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Sexuality, Gender, and Culture
• This groundbreaking volume presents a radical revision of gay criticism and focuses on E. M. Forster's place in the emerging field of queer studies. M... Lees meer

Beyond Carnival

James N Green

• Paperback | Engels | Worlds of Desire: The Chicago Sexuality, Gender, and Culture
• For many foreign observers, Brazil still conjures up a collage of exotic images, ranging from the camp antics of Carmen Miranda to the bronzed girl (o... Lees meer