Rough Edges   by Ashlynn Pearce

Male Sexuality under Surveillance: The Office in American Literature

Male Sexuality below Surveillance is a full of life, clever, and expertly argued research of the development of male sexuality within the enterprise place of work. Graham Thompson interweaves 3 major threads: a historicized cultural research of the advance of the fashionable enterprise workplace from its beginnings within the early 19th century to the current day, a Foucauldian dialogue of the place of work 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 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 palms. Twenty-seven years later, investigative journalist Philip Dryden - traveling his spouse, Laura, in health center - is witness to Maggie's deathbed confession. yet a few secrets and techniques are top stored mystery, and what began for Dryden as a small and curious tale concerning the merely 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 warfare the USA, Senator Joseph McCarthy loved super help within the struggle opposed to what he referred to as atheistic communism. yet that help stemmed much less from his wild fees approximately communists than his extra substantiated fees that "sex perverts" had infiltrated govt organisations. 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 teen lady is mocked while she takes a bathtub along 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 girl with appendicitis, and makes a decision to maintain his findings quiet.