Sexuality Studies

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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: Sexuality Studies, Latinx Studies, Media Studies, New Media
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

An escapade into the nightly ambience of Mexico City

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 Studies, Gay and Lesbian 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

Mediating Gender in Post-Authoritarian South Korea

Edited by Jesook Song & Michelle Cho
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Women's Studies, Sexuality Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History
Series: Perspectives on Contemporary Korea

An interdisciplinary look at gender and sexuality in contemporary South Korea

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

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

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

Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage

Boy Heroines and Female Pages

By Michael Shapiro
Subjects: Literary Studies, 16th and 17th Century Literature, Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Women's Studies

Cross-dressing in Shakespeare: a context for Elizabethan gender studies

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 Theater/Drama/Performance

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

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 Theater/Drama/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

Strangers to the Law

Gay People on Trial

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

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

Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies

Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance

By James F. Wilson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Gay and lesbians in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and on Broadway stages

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 Theater/Drama/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 Theater/Drama/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, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/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
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/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, South/Southeast Asia, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/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

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