Lesbian studies

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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

Murder Most Queer

The Homicidal Homosexual in the American Theater

By Jordan Schildcrout
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Sexuality Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance

A fascinating look at the shifting meanings of murderous gay characters in American theater over a century

Sounding Like a No-No

Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era

By Francesca T. Royster
Subjects: Music, African American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Black popular music and offbeat performance, from Eartha Kitt to Meshell Ndegeocello

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/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance

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

LGBT Youth in America's Schools

By Sean Cahill & Jason Cianciotto
Subjects: Education, Sexuality Studies, Political Science, Public Policy and Governance

Schools should be safe and affirming institutions of learning for all students, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity

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/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance

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

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

The Limits to Union

Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights

By Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Political Science
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Offers a case study of the same-sex marriage debate in Hawaii to discuss wider questions of political import

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

Strangers to the Law

Gay People on Trial

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

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

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/Trans Theater/Dance/Performance

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

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

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