A Lover's Call by Claire Thompson

Male Sexuality under Surveillance: The Office in American Literature

Male Sexuality less than Surveillance is a full of life, clever, and expertly argued research of the development of male sexuality within the enterprise workplace. Graham Thompson interweaves 3 major threads: a historicized cultural research of the improvement of the fashionable company workplace from its beginnings within the early 19th century to the current day, a Foucauldian dialogue of the workplace because the web site of varied disciplinary practices, and a queer-theoretical dialogue of the textualization of the homosexual male physique as a tool for generating a taxonomy of male-male family.

The Fire Baby

Summer season, 1976. A airplane crashes on a farm within the Cambridgeshire fens. Out of the flames walks younger Maggie Beck, clutching a child in her palms. Twenty-seven years later, investigative journalist Philip Dryden - vacationing his spouse, Laura, in health center - is witness to Maggie's deathbed confession. yet a few secrets and techniques are top saved mystery, and what began for Dryden as a small and curious tale concerning the simply survivor of an almost-forgotten airplane crash quickly escalates right into a full-blown homicide research.

The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal Government

In chilly conflict the USA, Senator Joseph McCarthy loved super aid within the struggle opposed to what he referred to as atheistic communism. yet that aid stemmed much less from his wild fees approximately communists than his extra substantiated fees that "sex perverts" had infiltrated govt enterprises. even supposing now remembered as an assault on suspected disloyalty, McCarthyism brought "moral values" into the yankee political arsenal.

Doubting Sex: Inscriptions, Bodies and Selves in Nineteenth-Century Hermaphrodite Case Histories

A young person woman is mocked whilst she takes a tub along with her friends, simply because her genitals appear like these of a boy. a pair visits a physician asking to ‘create extra space’ within the lady for sex. a physician unearths testicular tissue in a lady with appendicitis, and makes a decision to maintain his findings quiet.