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61) Cactus
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"Cactus is a novel about four women, how they affect each other, how they struggle to survive. As her daughters grow up, Bea begins to reassess her marriage, her youth, her likely future as a superfluous middle-aged, middle class woman. Ann and Dee are lesbian feminists trying, against formidable odds, to make a world in which they would be at home. Eleanor, finding herself drawn into relationships with the others, sees her painfully acquired independence...
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A homosexual affair in 1920s England between two 20-year-olds from different backgrounds. One is an aristocrat, the other a lowly store clerk. The affair develops into a roman a trois, both men falling for the aristocrat's manservant. A look at homosexuality in the days when one had to keep it a secret. By the author of Ready to Catch Him Should He Fall
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"In England, Lieutenant Jennifer Kincade is on her first assignment as a U.S. Army nurse, newly married to a man she isn't sure she loves. Then she meets sexy, charming Maggie Conover. Maggie, a journalist adventurer for American newspapers, is irresistibly drawn to the beautiful, dark-haired Jenny. Jenny, unable to fathom her attraction the free-spirited Maggie, follows the road her curiosity takes her.... Into an eroticism she has never known before....
70) Father's Day
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Matthew Vaber’s life has just taken a turn for the worse. His father has killed himself—a tragedy for which he feels bitterly responsible, when he lets himself feel much of anything about it at all—and his thrilling but damaged mother has taken center stage yet again. Into this cocktail of familial mayhem, Matthew tosses a bubbling new ingredient: the Pump Line, New York’s tawdriest phone sex service, where men appear and disappear with the...
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10 essays discussing the problems of discerning and defining homosexuality in texts of earlier ages. The difficulty arises from historical pressures against writing opening about same-sex emotions and relationships. A comparison of the language of the literary piece to the vocabulary of the era is often analyzed.
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"This major biography of Thomas Gray (1716-1771), the first in nearly half a century, expands our knowledge of the life of the English poet and our understanding of his personality and influential body of works. Robert L. Mack incorporates recent - and often radically revisionary - scholarship on Gray, drawing on developments in eighteenth-century studies and gender studies as well as on extensive original archival research into the life of the poet...
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A wide-ranging account of the significance of sodomy in the rich discourse of early modern England from 1590 to 1660. The author sets for a challenging reinterpretation of the historicity of homosexuality, reading a variety of Renaissance texts in the light of the work of such contemporary theorists as Foucault, Kristeva, Deleuze, Guattari, Hocquenghem, Derrida, and Althusser.