Gender Reversals and Gender Cultures: Anthropological and by Sabrina Petra Ramet

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 improvement of the fashionable enterprise workplace from its beginnings within the early 19th century to the current day, a Foucauldian dialogue of the workplace because the website 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 relatives.

The Fire Baby

Summer time, 1976. A aircraft crashes on a farm within the Cambridgeshire fens. Out of the flames walks younger Maggie Beck, clutching a child in her fingers. Twenty-seven years later, investigative journalist Philip Dryden - vacationing his spouse, Laura, in clinic - is witness to Maggie's deathbed confession. yet a few secrets and techniques are most sensible stored mystery, and what began for Dryden as a small and curious tale in regards to the basically survivor of an almost-forgotten aircraft 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 warfare the United States, Senator Joseph McCarthy loved great aid within the struggle opposed to what he known 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 executive businesses. even though 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 teen woman is mocked whilst 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 girl for sex. a physician unearths testicular tissue in a girl with appendicitis, and makes a decision to maintain his findings quiet.