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Cultural Studies

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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

Acts of Gaiety

LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure

By Sara Warner
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, American Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

The importance of pleasure, humor, and frivolity in shaping LGBT lives and activism

Performing Queer Latinidad

Dance, Sexuality, Politics

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

The place of performance in unifying an urban LGBT population of diverse Latin American descent

The Feminist Spectator as Critic

2nd Edition

By Jill Dolan
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies, Sexuality Studies

This groundbreaking work in gender and performance, with a new introduction and updated bibliography

The Myopia and Other Plays by David Greenspan

By David Greenspan
Edited by Marc Robinson
Contributions by Judy Boals & Inc.
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Critical Performances

A leading playwright explores issues of memory, family, doubt, and sexuality

Over the Rainbow

Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature

By Kenneth B. Kidd & Michelle Ann Abate
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Sexuality Studies, History, Intellectual History, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory

Significant essays on LGBTQ topics in children's literature

Sex, Drag, and Male Roles

Investigating Gender as Performance

By Diane Torr
Edited by Stephen J. Scott-Bottoms
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Critical Performances

The gender-bending performances of Diane Torr, creator of the Man for a Day workshops

Outside the Lines

Talking with Contemporary Gay Poets

By Christopher Matthew Hennessy
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies, American Studies

The first book to collect the voices of our foremost and most promising gay poets

Lewd and Notorious

Female Transgression in the Eighteenth Century

Edited by Katharine Kittredge
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, 18th Century Literature, Sexuality Studies

Hags, tarts, killers, and freaks--this compelling collection explores the representations of eighteenth-century female aberrations and grotesques

The Gay and Lesbian Theatrical Legacy

A Biographical Dictionary of Major Figures in American Stage History in the Pre-Stonewall Era

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

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

Margaret Webster

A Life in the Theater

By Milly S. Barranger
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies, Biography
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

A sweeping drama of the life and times of one of America's most innovative woman directors

A Queer Sort of Materialism

Recontextualizing American Theater

By David Savran
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

An eclectic collection of essays on theater and its decline as highbrow culture, under the influence of theme parks and blockbuster movies

A Problem like Maria

Gender and Sexuality in the American Musical

By Stacy Wolf
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

The Broadway tomboys, rebel nuns, and funny girls, who upset the 1950s gender norms: Mary Martin, Ethel Merman, Julie Andrews, and Barbra Streisand

Camp

Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject--A Reader

Edited by Fabio Cleto
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

The complete guide to camp; an anthology of the best writing on its history and current theory in cultural studies and lesbian and gay studies

Passing Performances

Queer Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History

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

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

The Male Body

Features, Destinies, Exposures

Edited by Laurence Goldstein
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, Essay and Interview, Cultural Studies

Poets, anthropologists, philosophers, artists, sociologists, and others provide perspectives on the male body.

Presence and Desire

Essays on Gender, Sexuality, Performance

By Jill Dolan
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies

Acting Out

Feminist Performances

Edited by Lynda Hart & Peggy Phelan
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies

Discourses of Sexuality

From Aristotle to AIDS

Edited by Domna C. Stanton
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Sexuality Studies

An important and timely book on a subject of enduring interest

The Female Body

Figures, Styles, Speculations

Edited by Laurence Goldstein
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Sexuality Studies, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Making a Spectacle

Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women's Theatre

Edited by Lynda Hart
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, Cultural Studies

The first scholarly collection to discuss the intersection of feminism and dramatic theory

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