Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity by Jose Esteban Munoz

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 company place of work. Graham Thompson interweaves 3 major threads: a historicized cultural research of the advance of the trendy enterprise place of work 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 time, 1976. A airplane crashes on a farm within the Cambridgeshire fens. Out of the flames walks younger Maggie Beck, clutching a child in her hands. Twenty-seven years later, investigative journalist Philip Dryden - traveling his spouse, Laura, in sanatorium - 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 in simple terms 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 great 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 corporations. even though now remembered as an assault on suspected disloyalty, McCarthyism brought "moral values" into the yank political arsenal.

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

A youngster woman is mocked while she takes a tub together with her friends, simply because her genitals seem like these of a boy. a pair visits a physician asking to ‘create extra space’ within the lady for sex. a physician reveals testicular tissue in a lady with appendicitis, and comes to a decision to maintain his findings quiet.