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Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea

Edited by Jesook Song & Michelle Cho
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

An interdisciplinary look at gender and sexuality in contemporary South Korea

Bodies on the Front Lines

Performance, Gender, and Sexuality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Edited by Brenda Werth & Katherine Zien
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies

Performances as feminist, queer, and trans activism, from theater and flash mobs to street protests and online manifestos

Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage

Boy Heroines and Female Pages

By Michael Shapiro
Subjects: Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Cross-dressing in Shakespeare: a context for Elizabethan gender studies

Waiting for the Call

From Preacher's Daughter to Lesbian Mom

By Jacqueline Taylor
Subjects: Memoir, Religion, Sexuality Studies

One woman's search for the meaning of faith when the foundations of her beliefs are tested to the limit

Staging Desire

Queer Readings of American Theater History

Edited by Kimberley Bell Marra & Robert A. Schanke
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time

Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers

Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Café Theatre

By Catherine Davy
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Parody, cross-dressing, zany comedy, and unbridled eroticism at a women's theater space in the East Village

Strangers to the Law

Gay People on Trial

By Lisa Melinda Keen & Suzanne Beth Goldberg
Subjects: Law, Sexuality Studies, Political Science, American Politics
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Describes the legal challenge to the Colorado anti-gay civil rights initiative

Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies

Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance

By James F. Wilson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Gay and lesbians in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and on Broadway stages

Facing It

AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author

By Leigh Ross Chambers
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, American Literature

Explores the connection between the politics of AIDS writing and the ethics of reading

Act Like a Man

Challenging Masculinities in American Drama

By Robert H Vorlicky
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Sexuality Studies

How men communicate with each other on stage when no women are present—and what it tells us about power and gender

Queer Livability

German Sexual Sciences and Life Writing

By Ina Linge
Subjects: German Studies, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Reveals how queer and trans life writers use narrative strategies to create the possibility for a livable queer life

The Taylor Mac Book

Ritual, Realness and Radical Performance

By David Roman & Sean Edgecomb
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, American Studies, Music, Popular Music
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Brings together the voices of scholars, critics, and artists to celebrate the genius of Taylor Mac

Queer Voices in Hip Hop

Cultures, Communities, and Contemporary Performance

By Lauron J. Kehrer
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

Positions queer and trans hip hop artists within a longer tradition of Black queer music

Regimes of Desire

Young Gay Men, Media, and Masculinity in Tokyo

By Thomas Baudinette
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Sexuality Studies, Media Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Explores the limitations of sexual expression in Tokyo’s “safe” nightlife district and in Japanese media

Queer Nightlife

By Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani, and Ramon H. Rivera-Servera
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance, American Studies, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Evocative essays and interviews that celebrate the expressive possibilities of a world after dark

Translocas

The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance

By Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Latin American Studies, Sexuality Studies, Gender Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Argues for the political potential of drag and trans performance in Puerto Rico and its diaspora

Prismatic Performances

Queer South Africa and the Fragmentation of the Rainbow Nation

By April Sizemore-Barber
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, African Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Exploring the contradictions of post-Apartheid South Africa through performance

Ishtyle

Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife

By Kareem Khubchandani
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Dance, Sexuality Studies, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Gay nightlife as sociopolitical performance

The Postcolonial Animal

African Literature and Posthuman Ethics

By Evan Mwangi
Subjects: African Studies, Literary Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Argues for an innovative and overdue posthuman reading of African postcolonial literature

The Bodies of Others

Drag Dances and Their Afterlives

By Selby Wynn Schwartz
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

The first book-length exploration of drag dance in the U.S.

The Remarkable Rise of Transgender Rights

By Jami Kathleen Taylor, Donald P. Haider-Markel, and Daniel Clay Lewis
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy, Sexuality Studies

How a small, seemingly marginalized group becomes a political force

Gender, Intersections, and Institutions

Intersectional Groups Building Alliances and Gaining Voice in Germany

Edited by Louise K. Davidson-Schmich
Subjects: Political Science, Public Policy, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies

A fascinating look at diversity issues and an analysis of how intersectional groups garner political attention

Pivotal Voices, Era of Transition

Toward a 21st Century Poetics

By Rigoberto Gonzalez
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Latinx Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: Poets on Poetry

A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.

Charles Ludlam Lives!

Charles Busch, Bradford Louryk, Taylor Mac, and the Queer Legacy of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company

By Sean Edgecomb
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Explores the enduring queer legacy of playwright, actor, and director Charles Ludlam

 

Queer Roots for the Diaspora

Ghosts in the Family Tree

By Jarrod Hayes
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, African American Studies, Caribbean Studies, Jewish Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Diaspora Studies

Uses comparative narratives to explore the dualism between marginalization and the desire for roots within a rooted identity

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