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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Moving Politics Moving Politics Deborah B. Gould In the late 1980s, after a decade spent engaged in more routine interest-group politics, thousands of lesbians and gay men responded to the AIDS crisis by defiantly and dramatically taking to the str… OL13745210W
Queer Bangkok Queer Bangkok Peter A. Jackson The Thai capital Bangkok is the unrivalled centre of the country’s gay, lesbian, and transgender communities. These communities are among the largest in Southeast Asia, and indeed in the world, and h… OL16590015W
Out in public Out in public Ellen Lewin,William L. Leap Out in Public addresses, and engages us in, the new and exciting directions in the emerging field of lesbian/gay anthropology. The authors offer a deep conversation about the meaning of sexuality, su… OL18356954W
Out in theory Out in theory Ellen Lewin,William L. Leap Lesbian and gay anthropologists write candidly in Out in the Field about their research and personal experiences in conducting fieldwork, about the ethical and intellectual dilemmas they face in writ… OL18517123W
Archaeologies of Sexuality Archaeologies of Sexuality Barbara L. Voss,Robert A. Schmidt Status, age and gender have long been accepted aspects of archaeological enquiry, yet it is only recently that archaeologists have started seriously to consider the role of sex and sexuality in their… OL19131298W
After Love After Love Noelle M. Stout Focused on the intimate effects of large-scale economic transformations, After Love illuminates the ways that everyday efforts to imagine, resist, and enact market reforms shape sexual desires and su… OL20330413W
Real Queer? Real Queer? David A. B. Murray “How do I prove I’m gay?” This is the central question for many refugee claimants who are claiming asylum on the basis of sexual orientation persecution. But what are the inherent challenges in obtai… OL21112440W
Queer Freedom Queer Freedom Ana-Maurine Lara Theoretically wide-ranging and deeply personal and poetic, Queer Freedom: Black Sovereignty is based on more than three years of fieldwork in the Dominican Republic. Ana-Maurine Lara draws on her eng… OL21678009W
Gay Fatherhood Gay Fatherhood Ellen Lewin Men are often thought to have less interest in parenting than women, and gay men are generally assumed to prefer pleasure over responsibility. The toxic combination of these two stereotypical views h… OL2740872W
De los Otros De los Otros Joseph M. Carrier A detailed description of sexual practices and bonds among Latino males in Guadalajara, Mexico using a combination of ethnographic techniques and participant observations. OL3746479W
Gender diversity in Indonesia Gender diversity in Indonesia Sharyn Graham Davies Indonesia provides particularly interesting examples of gender diversity. Same-sex relations, transvestism and cross-gender behaviour have long been noted amongst a wide range of Indonesian peoples. … OL8263754W
Caribbean Pleasure Industry Caribbean Pleasure Industry Mark Padilla In recent years, the economy of the Caribbean has become almost completely dependent on international tourism. And today one of the chief ways that foreign visitors there seek pleasure is through pro… OL9216640W