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1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels

Tim Miller and Glen Johnson

A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture

Will Fellows

Act Like a Man: Challenging Masculinities in American Drama

Robert Vorlicky

Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure

Sara Warner

African American Females: Addressing Challenges and Nurturing the Future

Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher and Vernon C. Polite

Autobiography of My Hungers

Rigoberto González

Body Blows: Six Performances

Tim Miller

Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance

James F. Wilson

Celluloid Activist: The Life and Times of Vito Russo

Michael Schiavi

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

Sean F. Edgecomb

Confessions of a Presidential Speechwriter

Craig R. Smith

Constituting Workers, Protecting Women: Gender, Law and Labor in the Progressive Era and New Deal Years

Julie Novkov

Debating Women: Gender, Education, and Spaces for Argument, 1835-1945

Carly S. Woods

Effeminism: The Economy of Colonial Desire

Revathi Krishnaswamy

Eminent Maricones: Arenas, Lorca, Puig, and Me

Jaime Manrique

Ethnic Drag: Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany

Katrin Sieg

European Women and Preindustrial Craft

Daryl M. Hafter

Facing It: AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author

Ross Chambers

Fantasies of Gender and the Witch in Feminist Theory and Literature

Justyna Sempruch

Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest

Will Fellows

Feminine Persuasion: Art and Essays on Sexuality

Betsy Stirratt and Catherine Johnson

First Ladies and the Press: The Unfinished Partnership of the Media Age

Maurine H. Beasley

French Women and the Age of Enlightenment

Samia I. Spencer

Freudian Slips: Woman, Writing, the Foreign Tongue

Mary S. Gossy

From Curlers to Chainsaws: Women and Their Machines

Joyce Dyer, Jennifer Cognard-Black and Elizabeth MacLeod Walls

From the Other Side: Women, Gender, & Immigrant Life in the U.S., 1820-1990

Donna Gabaccia

Gay Bar: The Fabulous, True Story of a Daring Woman and Her Boys in the 1950s

Will Fellows and Helen P. Branson

Gender and Social Structure in Madagascar

Richard Huntington

Gender, Discourse, and Desire in Twentieth-Century Brazilian Women's Literature

Cristina Ferreira-Pinto

Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages

Michael Shapiro

Gender, Judaism, and Bourgeois Culture in Germany, 1800-1870

Benjamin Maria Baader

Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois

Wanda A. Hendricks

Gendering Talk

Robert Hopper

Given Up for You: A Memoir of Love, Belonging, and Belief

Erin O. White

Honorable Bandit: A Walk across Corsica

Brian Bouldrey

Human Sexuality in Physical and Mental Illnesses and Disabilities

Ami Sha'ked

Identity, Gender, and Tracking: The Reality of Boundaries for Veterinary Students

Jenny R. Vermilya

"I'm Not Gonna Die in This Damn Place": Manliness, Identity, and Survival of the Mexican American Vietnam Prisoners of War

Juan David Coronado

In the Province of the Gods

Kenny Fries

In Their Own Words: Forgotten Women Pilots of Early Aviation

Fred Erisman

James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination

Matt Brim

Journal of Women's History Guide to Periodical Literature

Gayle V. Fischer

Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers: Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Café Theatre

Kate Davy

Leaders of the Pack: Women and the Future of Veterinary Medicine

Julie Kumble and Donald F. Smith

Let Burn

Rachel K. Wentz

LGBT Youth in America's Schools

Jason Cianciotto and Sean Cahill

Madre and I: A Memoir of Our Immigrant Lives

Guillermo Reyes

Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II

Jim Elledge

Murder Most Queer: The Homicidal Homosexual in the American Theater

Jordan Schildcrout

My Son Wears Heels: One Mom's Journey from Clueless to Kickass

Julie Tarney

Navigating Diversity and Inclusion in Veterinary Medicine

Lisa M. Greenhill, Kauline Cipriani Davis, Patricia M. Lowrie and Sandra F. Amass

New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction

Jin Feng

Passing Performances: Queer Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History

Robert A. Schanke and Kim Marra, Editors

Plundered Kitchens, Empty Wombs: Threatened Reproduction and Identity in the Cameroon Grassfields

Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg

Policy Issues Affecting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Families

Sean Cahill and Sarah Tobias

Queer Roots for the Diaspora: Ghosts in the Family Tree

Jarrod Hayes

Remembering the AIDS Quilt

Charles E. Morris III

Self-Made Woman: A Memoir

Denise Chanterelle DuBois

Sex Talks to Girls: A Memoir

Maureen Seaton

Sex/Machine: Readings in Culture, Gender, and Technology

Patrick D. Hopkins

Sexualities in Victorian Britain

Andrew H. Miller and James Eli Adams

Shakespearean Tragedy and Gender

Shirley Garner and Madelon Sprengnether

Short Leash: A Memoir of Dog Walking and Deliverance

Janice Gary

Sisters in Science: Conversations with Black Women Scientists on Race, Gender, and Their Passion for Science

Diann Jordan

Sisters in Spirit: Christianity, Affect, and Community Building in East Africa, 1860–1970

Andreana C. Prichard

Sounding Like a No-No: Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era

Francesca T. Royster

Spoiling the Stories: The Rise of Israeli Women's Fiction

Tamar Merin

Staging Desire: Queer Readings of American Theater History

Kim Marra and Robert A. Schanke, Editors

Strangers to the Law: Gay People on Trial

Lisa Keen and Suzanne B. Goldberg

Taboo

Boyer Rickel

The Blind Masseuse: A Traveler's Memoir from Costa Rica to Cambodia

Alden Jones

The Change: My Great American, Postindustrial, Midlife Crisis Tour

Lori Soderlind

The Female Face in Patriarchy: Oppression as Culture

Frances B. O'Connor and Becky S. Drury

The Gender of Modernism: A Critical Anthology

Bonnie Time Scott

The Ice Cave: A Woman’s Adventures from the Mojave to the Antarctic

Lucy Jane Bledsoe

The Last Deployment: How a Gay, Hammer-Swinging Twentysomething Survived a Year in Iraq

Bronson Lemer

The Limits to Union: Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights

Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller

The Pox Lover: An Activist's Decade in New York and Paris

Anne-christine d'Adesky

The Practice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire

Teresa de Lauretis

The Queen of American Agriculture: A Biography of Virginia Claypool Meredith

Frederick Whitford, Andrew G. Martin and Phyllis Mattheis

The State of the African American Male

Eboni M. Zamani-Gallaher and Vernon C. Polite

Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality

Rudolph P. Byrd and Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Two Novels: Development and Two Selves

Bryher and Joanne Winning

Unconventional Sisterhood: Feminist Catholic Nuns in the Philippines

Heather L. Claussen

Waiting for the Call: From Preacher's Daughter to Lesbian Mom

Jacqueline Taylor

What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood

Rigoberto González

Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies

Patrick E. Horrigan

Women and the Press: The Struggle for Equality

Patricia Bradley

Women and Work in Preindustrial Europe

Barbara A. Hanawalt

Women as Candidates in American Politics

Susan Carroll

Women Count: A Guide to Changing the World

Susan Bulkeley Butler and Bob Keefe

Women in Cleveland: An Illustrated History

Marion Morton

Women of the Washington Press: Politics, Prejudice, and Persistence

Maurine H. Beasley

Women, Philanthropy, and Civil Society

Kathleen D. McCarthy

Women Poets and the American Sublime

Joanne Feit Diehl

Women's Political and Social Thought: An Anthology

Hilda Smith and Berenice Carroll

Women’s Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth-Century China

Li Guo

Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction

Li Guo

You're Dead—So What?: Media, Police, and the Invisibility of Black Women as Victims of Homicide

Cherly L. Neely

You're Not from Around Here, Are You?: A Lesbian in Small-Town America

Louise A. Blum