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High Art (Sapphire)High Art (Sapphire)
Best Price: $88.15
I must say, this book was GREAT! I recently joined a lesbian erotic book club and this was one...
Leaps of FaithLeaps of Faith
Best Price: $8.60
One of the most clever books I've ever read. It's funny, captivating, smart. ...
Lush Life: A Biography of Billy StrayhornLush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
Best Price: $12.48
The pure artistic genius of Billy Strayhorn literally jumps off the pages of David Hajdu's...
Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties: A NovelTrace Elements of Random Tea Parties: A Novel
Best Price: $6.99
This is a story of a Mexican-American young woman leaving her grandmother's traditional ways...
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual RenegadeSecret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
Best Price: $13.86
Samuel Steward (aka Phil Sparrow, Phil Andros) lived (1909-1993) an interesting life. A boyhood...


The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in DeathThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
Best Price: $14.13
This is a beautiful memoir by a man named Bauby. He tells his story with "locked-in...
Forbidden ColorsForbidden Colors
Best Price: $10.27
Bitter and brilliant, Forbidden Colors is a tough book to like. Someone asked me if I enjoyed...
HaakonHaakon
The story opens it is August 1945 on a troop ship returning from Europe to the States as Private...
An Idol for OthersAn Idol for Others
Walter Makin leaves college early when an offer in theatre beckons, at about the same time as...
grl2grl: Short fictionsgrl2grl: Short fictions
Best Price: $6.71
A collection of ten short fiction by one of the best GLBT writers. Tales of love and lust,...


Women, Families and Communities, Volume 2 (2nd Edition)Women, Families and Communities, Volume 2 (2nd Edition)
Best Price: $37.00
Approaching women's history through case studies, this reader explores the connections...
The Beauty of MenThe Beauty of MenVisual and Other Pleasures (Language, Discourse, Society)Visual and Other Pleasures (Language, Discourse, Society)
This collection includes Laura Mulvey's bafflingly influential essay `Visual Pleasure and...
Fictions of the Female Self: Charlotte Bronte, Olive Schreiner, Katherine MansfieldFictions of the Female Self: Charlotte Bronte, Olive Schreiner, Katherine Mansfield
That women writers in a literary world dominated by men could not express their ideas and...
Macmillan: A Publishing Tradition from 1843Macmillan: A Publishing Tradition from 1843
Best Price: $69.95
For over 150 years, since its founding in 1843, Macmillan has been at the heart of British...

Women's Movements in International Perspective: Latin America and Beyond (Palgrave Foundations)Women's Movements in International Perspective: Latin America and Beyond (Palgrave Foundations)
Best Price: $65.44
Until now, the analysis of gender and political inequality, and of the women's movements...
The Sappho HistoryThe Sappho History
Best Price: $22.00
In The Sappho History , Margaret Reynolds traces the story of the reception of Sappho's...
Same Sex Desire in Victorian Religious CultureSame Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture
Best Price: $127.82
Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Religious Culture examines the role of Christian history in 19th...
Gender (Transitions)Gender (Transitions)
Best Price: $27.99
This book offers a clear introductory overview of the concept of gender. It places gender in its...
Stages of Desire: Male and Female Homosexuality in British and American TheatreStages of Desire: Male and Female Homosexuality in British and American Theatre
Best Price: $7.99
In this critical look at how homosexuality and homosexual acts have been represented in English...

We Are Family (Sexual Politics)We Are Family (Sexual Politics)
Best Price: $4.50
An engrossing look at the reality of being lesbian or gay and a parent, the ways and means of...
Anti-Gay (Sexual Politics)Anti-Gay (Sexual Politics)
Best Price: $125.00
I was excited about what this book had proposed, a big slap in the face of the moribund state of...
I Used to Be Nice: Reflections on Feminist and Lesbian Politics (Sexual Politics)I Used to Be Nice: Reflections on Feminist and Lesbian Politics (Sexual Politics)
Best Price: $0.01
Collection of writings covering a range of issues that have been at the forefront of Women's...
The Campaign for Justice, Truth and Love: A History and Reader of the Lesbian and Gay Christian MovementThe Campaign for Justice, Truth and Love: A History and Reader of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement
Best Price: $69.95
Founded in 1975, the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement has become the largest and most...
Grant Wood: A LifeGrant Wood: A Life
Best Price: $20.98
Is it just me, or did any other readers of this well-written book feel profound sadness and a...

The Tricky Part: A boy's story of sexual trespass, a man's journey to forgivenessThe Tricky Part: A boy's story of sexual trespass, a man's journey to forgiveness
Best Price: $6.92
The above quote from Shakespeare expresses a kind of numinous awe; a feeling of inadequacy at...
At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple LifeAt Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream: Misadventures in Search of the Simple Life
Best Price: $4.75
When was the last time you read a memoir that begins with an angry raccoon perched on the...
Sal Mineo: A BiographySal Mineo: A Biography
Best Price: $11.00
I remember hearing the awful news of Sal Mineo's death, stabbed as he walked to his...
The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better UnderstandingThe Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People: Building a Foundation for Better Understanding
Best Price: $42.98
At a time when lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals--often referred to under the...
High Art (Sapphire)High Art (Sapphire)
Best Price: $88.15
I must say, this book was GREAT! I recently joined a lesbian erotic book club and this was one...

Leaps of FaithLeaps of Faith
Best Price: $8.60
One of the most clever books I've ever read. It's funny, captivating, smart. ...
Lush Life: A Biography of Billy StrayhornLush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
Best Price: $12.48
The pure artistic genius of Billy Strayhorn literally jumps off the pages of David Hajdu's...
Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties: A NovelTrace Elements of Random Tea Parties: A Novel
Best Price: $6.99
This is a story of a Mexican-American young woman leaving her grandmother's traditional ways...
Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual RenegadeSecret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
Best Price: $13.86
Samuel Steward (aka Phil Sparrow, Phil Andros) lived (1909-1993) an interesting life. A boyhood...
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in DeathThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
Best Price: $14.13
This is a beautiful memoir by a man named Bauby. He tells his story with "locked-in...

Forbidden ColorsForbidden Colors
Best Price: $10.27
Bitter and brilliant, Forbidden Colors is a tough book to like. Someone asked me if I enjoyed...
HaakonHaakon
The story opens it is August 1945 on a troop ship returning from Europe to the States as Private...
An Idol for OthersAn Idol for Others
Walter Makin leaves college early when an offer in theatre beckons, at about the same time as...
The Boys and Their Baby (Stonewall Inn Editions)The Boys and Their Baby (Stonewall Inn Editions)
Best Price: $0.01
Adam Berg moves to San Francisco, into the apartment of his old Yale roommate and the man's...
Everbody Loves YouEverbody Loves You
Best Price: $3.99
I recommend this book (and the whole Buddies quadrilogy) to any reader who searches really good...

Women's Rights Emerges within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)Women's Rights Emerges within the Anti-Slavery Movement, 1830-1870: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)
Best Price: $8.38
Combining documents with an interpretive essay, this book is the first to offer a much-needed...
The Love Songs of Phoenix BayThe Love Songs of Phoenix Bay
Best Price: $1.90
The experience of loss and a desire to escape the past bring together a San Franciscan...
Gay Issues in the Workplace (Stonewall Inn Editions)Gay Issues in the Workplace (Stonewall Inn Editions)
Best Price: $0.30
What gay people want and need The cost of anti-gay behavior How to respond to people who quote...
Queer Baby Names: A Completely Irreverent Guide to Naming Your Lesbian/Gay TotQueer Baby Names: A Completely Irreverent Guide to Naming Your Lesbian/Gay Tot
Best Price: $44.06
I was given this book as a gift since I'm expecting. It's not really much of a baby...
Urban Amazons: Lesbian Feminism and Beyond in the Gender, Sexuality, and Identity Battles of LondonUrban Amazons: Lesbian Feminism and Beyond in the Gender, Sexuality, and Identity Battles of London
Best Price: $136.99
The late 1980s in London was a period of heady transition for everyone in that city, and lesbian...

The Gay Man's Guide to HeterosexualityThe Gay Man's Guide to Heterosexuality
Best Price: $0.69
O'Leary & Crimmins have done a marvelous job of sending up that terrifyingly odd...
Koolaids: The Art of WarKoolaids: The Art of War
Best Price: $245.12
Chronicling the effect of AIDS and war on the denizens of Beirut, Alameddine's dazzling...
Glove PuppetGlove Puppet
Best Price: $6.99
Loved the beginning of the book, but the past tense narrative as I work my way through it...
The Story of a Marriage: A NovelThe Story of a Marriage: A Novel
Best Price: $0.29
"Holland and I had talked about our friends and our childhoods and movies and books and...
Society and the Healthy HomosexualSociety and the Healthy Homosexual
Best Price: $60.60

Valley of the AmazonsValley of the Amazons
Best Price: $2.29
I read this book years ago and once again more recently. It is hilarious, just flat out funny --...
Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical SourcebookContemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook
Best Price: $105.00
The first comprehensive biographical, critical, and bibliographical source on lesbian writers,...
Women Playwrights of Diversity: A Bio-Bibliographical SourcebookWomen Playwrights of Diversity: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook
Best Price: $7.19
The ethnic and cultural diversity of the United States is well represented by contemporary...
Amazons to Fighter Pilots [2 volumes]: A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women, 2 VolumesAmazons to Fighter Pilots [2 volumes]: A Biographical Dictionary of Military Women, 2 Volumes
Best Price: $20.20
In 1942, during the battle of Stalingrad, fighter pilot Liliia Litviak became the first woman to...
Homosexualities in the English Theatre: From Lyly to Wilde (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)Homosexualities in the English Theatre: From Lyly to Wilde (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)
Best Price: $131.95
Scholars have given increasing amounts of attention to the place of homosexuality in different...

Sexual Harassment in America: A Documentary History (Primary Documents in American History and Contemporary Issues)Sexual Harassment in America: A Documentary History (Primary Documents in American History and Contemporary Issues)
Best Price: $22.55
The controversial topic of sexual harassment in the United States is explored in this unique...
Same-Sex Marriage (Historical Guides to Controversial Issues in America)Same-Sex Marriage (Historical Guides to Controversial Issues in America)
Best Price: $4.65
Phy-Olsen has surely produced the best book on same-sex marriage to date. Her book covers the...
Beyond Burning Bras: Feminist Activism for EveryoneBeyond Burning Bras: Feminist Activism for Everyone
Best Price: $44.95
This book is a must have for any modern feminist! It's a Bible of hope and a testament to...
Daughters of the Mountain: Women Coal Miners in Central Appalachia (Rural Studies Series of the Rural Sociological Society)Daughters of the Mountain: Women Coal Miners in Central Appalachia (Rural Studies Series of the Rural Sociological Society)
Best Price: $22.93
This book gave me an excellent perception of women in the coal fields and a great theoretical...
Homosexual Acts, Actors, and IdentitiesHomosexual Acts, Actors, and Identities
Homesexual Acts, Actors, and Identities explores the authoritarian power hierarchies that create...

The Chosen Women in Korean Politics: An Anthropological StudyThe Chosen Women in Korean Politics: An Anthropological Study
Best Price: $86.95
Chung-Hee Soh here contributes a unique perspective on women in politics by analyzing the...
Betrayal of Trust: Sex and Power in Professional RelationshipsBetrayal of Trust: Sex and Power in Professional Relationships
Best Price: $37.00
As a victim of pediatric doctor-patient sexual abuse, I'm always glad to see this covert...
Climbing the Hill: Gender Conflict in CongressClimbing the Hill: Gender Conflict in Congress
Best Price: $3.99
Climbing the Hill explores the history and current status of women members and staff on Capitol...
Sex/Gender Outsiders, Hate Speech, and Freedom of Expression: Can They Say That About Me?Sex/Gender Outsiders, Hate Speech, and Freedom of Expression: Can They Say That About Me?
Best Price: $43.88
This is not a free reading book. I am using it as research material for a class I'm taking....
War and American Women: Heroism, Deeds, and ControversyWar and American Women: Heroism, Deeds, and Controversy
Best Price: $30.00
The Gulf War of 1991 saw 37,000 women serve in uniform who, like their predecessors, performed...

The Gendering of American Politics: Founding Mothers, Founding Fathers, and Political PatriarchyThe Gendering of American Politics: Founding Mothers, Founding Fathers, and Political Patriarchy
Best Price: $94.95
America's founding mothers and fathers built gender bias into American politics. This book...
Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998Women and the Death Penalty in the United States, 1900-1998
Best Price: $124.00
Eschewing sensationalism, O'Shea has provided a state-by-state review of women and the death...
Weaving a New Tapestry: Asia in the Post-Cold War World, Case Studies and General TrendsWeaving a New Tapestry: Asia in the Post-Cold War World, Case Studies and General Trends
Best Price: $37.50
The fall of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe has affected nations throughout the...
The Culture of Sexism (Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence)The Culture of Sexism (Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence)
Best Price: $28.49
Most contemporary analyses of sexism focus on economic, social, and political inequalities and...
Repression, Resistance, and Women in AfghanistanRepression, Resistance, and Women in Afghanistan
Best Price: $79.95
Afghan women have faced an exhaustive struggle in the battle to change their status and improve...

Tainted Life (Hb)Tainted Life (Hb)
Best Price: $109.89
The autobiography of the eighties pop star Marc Almond. An intimate portrait of the star-making...
The Third Sex: Kathoey: Thailand's LadyboysThe Third Sex: Kathoey: Thailand's Ladyboys
Best Price: $15.00
A very thought provoking analysis of a very misunderstood subject. Totman credentials are beyond...
The Gelede Spectacle: Art, Gender, and Social Harmony in African CultureThe Gelede Spectacle: Art, Gender, and Social Harmony in African Culture
Best Price: $100.00
Gelede is a popular community festival of masquerade, dance, and song, held several times a year...
Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)Widescreen Dreams: Growing Up Gay at the Movies (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)
Best Price: $8.39
I enjoyed this book despite myself. The author just LOVED some really wretched movies - The Wiz...
Glenway Wescott Personally:  A BiographyGlenway Wescott Personally: A Biography
Anyone infatuated as an undergraduate or an adult with Hemingway, Stein, Fitzgerald and the...

Bryher: Two Novels:  Development and Two Selves (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies)Bryher: Two Novels: Development and Two Selves (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies)
Best Price: $119.49
Bryher (born Annie Winifred Ellerman) is perhaps best known today as the lifelong partner of the...
The Public Face of Modernism:  Little Magazines, Audiences, and Reception, 1905-1920The Public Face of Modernism: Little Magazines, Audiences, and Reception, 1905-1920
Best Price: $17.49
Between the 1890s and the 1920s, mass consumer culture and modernism grew up together, by most...
Gender (Transitions)Gender (Transitions)
Best Price: $29.73
This book offers a clear introductory overview of the concept of gender. It places gender in its...
CONTEMPORY LESBIAN WRITING:CL (Gender in Writing)CONTEMPORY LESBIAN WRITING:CL (Gender in Writing)
In exploring the development of Anglo-American lesbian writing since the early 1970s, this study...
LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES IN THE ENGLISH CLASSROOM (New Directions in Criminology Series)LESBIAN AND GAY ISSUES IN THE ENGLISH CLASSROOM (New Directions in Criminology Series)
Best Price: $32.97
We need more books like Simon Harris' for the teachers in our schools. As more and more...

Stage FrightStage Fright
Best Price: $35.21
"A compelling story of family passions on a big stage." MINNEAPOLIS STAR & TRIBUNE...
Understanding Men's Passages: Discovering the New Map of Men's LivesUnderstanding Men's Passages: Discovering the New Map of Men's Lives
Best Price: $4.25
Gail Sheey's "Understanding Men's Passages" is a good book to read to...
The Cold CommandsThe Cold Commands
Best Price: $11.40
With The Steel Remains, award-winning science fiction writer Richard K. Morgan turned his...
Geography Of The HeartGeography Of The HeartConvict Chains (Idol Series)Convict Chains (Idol Series)
Best Price: $35.00
When, in 1837, the young typesetter Peter Warren is seduced by and falls in love with...

Rika's Jewel (Sapphire)Rika's Jewel (Sapphire)
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This was an amazing book - I'm still finding it hard to believe that it's been hidden...
Sandra's New School (Nexus)Sandra's New School (Nexus)
Best Price: $50.00
Nude sunbathing and spanking with a submissive girlfriend lead hedonistic Sandra Shanks to the...
Telling Moments: Autobiographical Lesbian Short StoriesTelling Moments: Autobiographical Lesbian Short Stories
Best Price: $11.47
Telling Moments collects contemporary short stories by a diverse group of twenty-four lesbian...
How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDSHow to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS
Best Price: $18.64
Reading Professor Gere's book reminds me so much of Eve Sedgwick. Like her...
1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)1001 Beds: Performances, Essays, and Travels (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog)
Best Price: $8.99
Editor Glen Johnson has done what I would have thought was just about impossible, between...

Women and Men on the Overland Trail (Historical Publications)Women and Men on the Overland Trail (Historical Publications)
Best Price: $4.31
I felt that the book was really hard. And it was a little long. But overall the book was very...
Liberty A Better Husband: Single Women in America: The Generations of 1780-1840Liberty A Better Husband: Single Women in America: The Generations of 1780-1840
Best Price: $29.94
?For liberty is a better husband than love to many of us.??Louisa May Alcott   This...
Marble Queens and Captives: Women in Nineteenth-Century American SculptureMarble Queens and Captives: Women in Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture
Best Price: $249.84
When 19th century Americans looked at a statue of a nude woman in chains, or a shipwrecked...
The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835The Bonds of Womanhood: "Woman's Sphere" in New England, 1780-1835
Best Price: $15.93
Unless your extremely into History and like reading term papers you better just skip this book....
Education of Girls: A Handbook for Parents (Education Matters)Education of Girls: A Handbook for Parents (Education Matters)
This study of girls and education covers educational issues and debates relating to gender,...

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