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42) On the road to same-sex marriage: a supportive guide to psychological, political, and legal issues
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An extensive history and a how-to guide on the controversial issue of same sex marriage, this book presents a forceful argument for legalizing same sex marriage. The authors transcend the morality issue, and instead place the debate in a civil rights context of equal treatment and nondiscrimination. The authors also include comprehensive chapters on the legal issues of both gay and lesbian parenting
44) Herculine Barbin: being the recently discovered memoirs of a nineteenth-century French hermaphrodite
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"With an eye for the sensual bloom of young schoolgirls, and the torrid style of the romantic novels of her own day, Herculine Barbin tells the story of her life as a hermaphrodite. Designated female at birth, a pious girl in a Catholic orphanage, a bewildered adolescent enchanted by the ripening bodies of her classmates, a passionate lover of another school-mistress, she is suddenly reclassified as a man. Alone and desolate, he commits suicide at...
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At the time of its first appearance in 1985 Between Men was viewed as an important intervention into Feminist as well as Gay and Lesbian studies. It was an important book because it argued that "sexuality" and "desire" were not a historical phenomenon but carefully managed social constructs. This insight (that actually originated with Michael Foucault) is often viewed as anti-humanist or post-humanist because it argues that men and women are simply...
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Argues that people of all sexual orientations are hurt by being "straight", torn from their full human potential, and squeezed into molds that support our dominant institutions. Human relationships with either sex are incomplete and unfulfilling. Chapters on "How to be straight" and "How to be gay" describe the roles heterosexual and non-heterosexual people are conditioned to live in order to maintain this status quo. [back cover].
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"I know I'm not a man . . . and I've come to the conclusion that I'm probably not a woman, either . . . The trouble is, we're living in a world that insists we be one or the other." With these words, Kate Bornstein ushers listeners on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity. On one level, Gender Outlaw details Bornstein's transformation from heterosexual male to lesbian woman, from a one-time IBM...
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In this remarkable study, David A. J. Richards combines an interpretive history of culture and law, political philosophy, and constitutional analysis to explain the background, development, and growing impact of two of the most challenging human rights movements of our time: feminism and gay rights
Richards argues that both movements are extensions of rights-based dissent, rooted in antebellum abolitionist feminism that condemned both American racism...
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Sex, cells, and same-sex desire : the biology of sexual preference describes, reviews, and questions recent biological research on sexual preference. Based on the point of view of knowledgeable scientists as well as scholars in the social sciences and humanities, these essays place the biological research within the emerging field of queer studies. The issues involved have a vibrant history, are wide-ranging, and remain the subject of much controversy....
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The latest in wedding etiquette, witty anecdotes from many recent gay and lesbian union ceremonies, and unexpected historical trivia, make this an indispensable and truly entertaining resource for same-sex couple who want to plan an unforgettable and perfectly orchestrated wedding. -- from back cover.