Sexuality Studies

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Queer and Trans Aesthetics

By Lloyd Whitesell
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Art, Music

A study devoted to queer meaning in cultural expression

Dissenting Through Dance

Folk Dance, Gender, and Political Protest in Turkey

By Sevi Bayraktar
Subjects: Dance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: Studies in Dance: Theories and Practices

How femme activists transform folk dance to a potent form of resistance in Turkey

Lavender Sounds

From Lesbian Radio to Queer Feminist Soundwork

By Stacey Copeland
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, American Studies

An exploration of queer feminist soundwork, connecting historical lesbian radio with modern podcasting

Sideways Developments

Queer and Trans Aesthetics of Global Hong Kong

By Kai Hang Cheang
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, China, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Diaspora Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: Global Queer Asias

A meditation on queer and trans persistence in global Hong Kong

Big Feelings

Queer and Feminist Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl

By Dan DiPiero
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, Sexuality Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies
Series: Tracking Pop

Listening to music that gives listeners a shared sense of what feels—and is—urgent

Dancing Opacity

Contemporary Dance, Transnationalism, and Queer Possibility in Senegal

By Amy E. Swanson
Subjects: Dance, Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, African Studies

How contemporary dancers recalibrate constructions of gender, sexuality, and race while navigating the international dance circuit

Queer Relajo

Feeling the Nightscapes of Mexicanidad

By David Tenorio
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies, Latinx Studies, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance

An escapade into the nightly ambiance of Mexico City

Teamsters Metropolis

By Ryan Patrick Murphy
Subjects: History, Labor History, American History, Sexuality Studies, Michigan and the Great Lakes, History

How an unruly union culture helped workers establish comfortable, suburban living

Rehabilitative Postsocialism

Disability, Sex, and Race in Eastern Europe

By Katerina Kolárová
Subjects: Disability Studies, European Studies, Eastern European Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: Corporealities: Discourses of Disability

The intersection of disability, race, and sexuality and the formation of social in/equalities in the postsocialist Czech Republic

A Queer History of Flamenco

Diversions, Transitions, and Returns in Flamenco Dance (1808–2018)

Translated by Ryan Rockmore

By Fernando López Rodríguez
Translated by Ryan Rockmore
Subjects: Dance, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance

Revealing the LGBTQ+ lives of Flamenco artists

Queer Chimerica

A Speculative Auto/Ethnography of the Cool Child

By Shana Leodar Ye
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Sexuality Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies, Asian American Studies, Diaspora Studies
Series: Global Queer Asias

Examining the intersections of queer theory and the rise of China to reveal how queerness is “produced”

Dancing with the Modernist City

Metropolitan Dance Texts around 1900

By Wesley Lim
Subjects: German Studies, Dance, Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance

Combining urban experiences and modern dance to develop metropolitan dance texts

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

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/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance

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

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/Trans Theater/Dance/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/Trans Theater/Dance/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, Gay and Lesbian Studies, American Studies, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/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, Dance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/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, Southeast Asia, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/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/Trans Theater/Dance/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 and Governance, Sexuality Studies

How a small, seemingly marginalized group becomes a political force

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