IDST 255: Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies: Books

Public opinion about homosexuality varies substantially around the world. While residents in some nations have embraced gay rights as human rights, people in many other countries find homosexuality unacceptable. What creates such big differences in attitudes?

Investigates the rise and fall of US American lesbian cultural institutions since the 1970s.

The first comprehensive presentation of an explicitly transgender theory. This theory goes beyond feminist and queer theory by incorporating the idea of fluid embodiment and lived experience in conceptualizing gender and sexual identity.

The term "intersex" evokes diverse images, typically of people who are both male and female or neither male nor female. Neither vision is accurate.

This new edition in the Great Events series chronicles important historical events that have identified, defined, and legally established the rights of the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender communities.

"...provides an accessible introduction to mainstream LGBTQ movements in the US, illustrating the many forms that LGBTQ activism has taken since the mid-twentieth century."

" In this manuscript, Savin-Williams explores the phenomenon of young men who identify themselves as "mostly straight." What does the small, but growing, number of young men who identify as mostly straight mean for our understanding of sexual orientation, sexual identity, and sexual behavior? "

"... presents the first comprehensive synthesis of the rapidly developing field of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer US history."

This book explores the pathologizing effects of binary assumptions of sex and gender, of male and female.