Book Reviews
Like you, we love books... and the next best thing to reading books is reading about books! Below you'll find an assortment of reviews for titles that we regularly stock. Also, be sure to check out our online catalog.
Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage
I recorded an interview with Bilerico contributors Ryan Conrad and Yasmin Nair earlier this week on their book, Against Equality: Queer Critiques of Gay Marriage.While I don't agree with everything they said, their critique does have some valuable components worth listening to, particularly the part about how the LGBT movement decides its priorities. It's something I've been saying for a while...
Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation
Kate Bornstein's Gender Outlaw is a canonical work in the world of postmodern gender criticism. The book is fifteen years old, though, and that is a veritable eternity in the realm of gender theory and trans* lives. Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, edited by Kate Bornstein and S. Bear Bergman, picks up where the original work left off with a collection of essays gathered from different...
Dear Andy Kaufman, I Hate Your Guts!
Confession: I still routinely watch Saturday Night Live. Why? Not entirely sure. Maybe it's nostalgia for a time when Wayne's World was the equivalent of a Monday morning water cooler event for little kids. Maybe it's for those fleeting moments of real cultural impact (Tina Fey's Palin) or getting the "live" experience of watching those all-too-rare moments of real comedic impact ...
Yes Means Yes
Feminists have some unfinished business. For all the increased equality, freedom and opportunity, the lingering threat of sexual violence continues to keep women “in their place.” The 30 writers of Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, however, believe a societal shift toward truly valuing female sexuality can help stop rape. Edited by Jessica...
Free Comrades
It came not from homosexual intellectuals, but from American anarchists. In the just-published Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States, 1895-1917, Terence Kissack, the former executive director of San Francisco’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society, has given us the first book-length study of this little-known phenomenon. The work is a vital...
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