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Culture and institutions. Using a rich array of oral histories and archival sources, Tomboys and Bachelor Girls provides the first detailed academic study of lesbian identity and culture in post-war Britain for the scholarly and general reader.

Lesbians --- Female gays --- Female homosexuals --- Gay females --- Gay women --- Gayelles --- Gays, Female --- Homosexuals, Female --- Lesbian women --- Sapphists --- Women, Gay --- Women homosexuals --- Gays --- Women --- History --- Great Britain --- Social conditions --- Lesbianism --- Lesbian culture --- Identity --- Social life and customs. --- bachelor girl. --- career woman. --- cultural practices. --- female same-sex desire. --- heterosexuality. --- homosexuality. --- lesbian identity. --- post-war Britain. --- queer theorists. --- sexual deviance. --- sexual knowledge. --- social life. --- tomboy.

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This book explores the representation of queer migrant Muslims in international literature and film from the 1980s to the present day. Bringing together a variety of contemporary writers and filmmakers of Muslim heritage engaged in vindicating same-sex desire, the book approaches queer Muslims in the diaspora as figures forced to negotiate their identities according to the expectations of the West and of their migrant Muslim communities. The book examines 3 main themes: the depiction of queer desire across racial and national borders, the negotiation of Islamic femininities and masculinities, and the positioning of the queer Muslim self in time and place. This study will be of interest to scholars, as well as to advanced general readers and postgraduate students, interested in Muslims, queerness, diaspora and postcolonialism. It brings nuance and complexity to an often simplified and controversial topic.

Muslim gays. --- Homosexuality in literature. --- Homosexuality in motion pictures. --- Muslim. --- diaspora. --- femininity. --- film. --- literature. --- masculinity. --- queer. --- same-sex desire. --- Muslim gays --- Homosexuality in literature --- Homosexuality in motion pictures --- Muslim diaspora in literature --- Literature, Modern --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism --- History --- Sociology of minorities --- Film --- Literature --- Race --- Movie review --- Movies --- Heteronormativity --- Migration background --- Islam --- Queer --- LGBTQIA literature --- Images of men --- Literary criticism --- Images of women --- Book --- Postcolonialism --- Islamophobia --- Integration --- Muslim gay people.

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A fascinating history of marginalized identities in the medieval worldWhile the term “intersectionality” was coined in 1989, the existence of marginalized identities extends back over millennia. Byzantine Intersectionality reveals the fascinating, little-examined conversations in medieval thought and visual culture around matters of sexual and reproductive consent, bullying and slut-shaming, homosocial and homoerotic relationships, trans and nonbinary gender identities, and the depiction of racialized minorities. Roland Betancourt explores these issues in the context of the Byzantine Empire, using sources from late antiquity and early Christianity up to the early modern period. Highlighting nuanced and strikingly modern approaches by medieval writers, philosophers, theologians, and doctors, Betancourt offers a new history of gender, sexuality, and race.Betancourt weaves together art, literature, and an impressive array of texts to investigate depictions of sexual consent in images of the Virgin Mary, tactics of sexual shaming in the story of Empress Theodora, narratives of transgender monks, portrayals of same-gender desire in images of the Doubting Thomas, and stereotypes of gender and ethnicity in representations of the Ethiopian Eunuch. He also gathers evidence from medical manuals detailing everything from surgical practices for late terminations of pregnancy to save a mother’s life to a host of procedures used to affirm a person’s gender.Showing how understandings of gender, sexuality, and race have long been enmeshed, Byzantine Intersectionality offers a groundbreaking look at the culture of the medieval world.

Social sciences (general) --- Intersectionality (Sociology) --- Byzantine Empire --- Social life and customs. --- Acts of the Apostles. --- Annunciation. --- Averil Cameron. --- Byzantine Matters. --- Byzantine art. --- Byzantium. --- Doubting Thomas. --- Empress Theodora. --- Ethiopian Eunuch. --- Incredulity of Thomas. --- Procopius. --- Secret History. --- Virgin Mary. --- abortion. --- cis. --- consent. --- eunuchs. --- gender affirmation. --- gender fluid. --- gender fluidity. --- gender identity. --- gender nonconforming. --- gender nonconformity. --- gender stereotypes. --- gender. --- intersectionality. --- medieval. --- pregnancy termination. --- queer desire. --- queer sexuality. --- queer. --- race in the medieval world. --- race. --- racialized difference. --- racialized stereotypes. --- reproductive rights. --- same-gender desire. --- same-sex desire. --- sexual consent. --- sexuality. --- slut shaming. --- trans. --- transgender history. --- transgender monks. --- transgender.

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This book examines changing perceptions of sex between men in early Victorian Britain, a significant yet surprisingly little explored period in the history of Western sexuality. Looking at the dramatic transformations of the era-changes in the family and in the law, the emergence of the world's first police force, the growth of a national media, and more-Charles Upchurch asks how perceptions of same-sex desire changed between men, in families, and in the larger society. To illuminate these questions, he mines a rich trove of previously unexamined sources, including hundreds of articles pertaining to sex between men that appeared in mainstream newspapers. The first book to relate this topic to broader economic, social, and political changes in the early nineteenth century, Before Wilde sheds new light on the central question of how and when sex acts became identities.

Gay men --- Men --- Homosexuality --- Sex --- Gender (Sex) --- Human beings --- Human sexuality --- Sex (Gender) --- Sexual behavior --- Sexual practices --- Sexuality --- Sexology --- Same-sex attraction --- Sexual orientation --- Bisexuality --- Human males --- Males --- Effeminacy --- Masculinity --- Gays, Male --- Homosexuals, Male --- Male gays --- Male homosexuals --- Urnings --- Gays --- History. --- Social conditions. --- History --- Great Britain --- Social conditions --- Sex - Great Britain - History - 19th century. --- age of reform. --- british police. --- british society. --- changing perceptions. --- discussion books. --- early 19th century. --- early victorian period. --- economic changes. --- england. --- family changes. --- great britain. --- historical account. --- history buffs. --- history of sexuality. --- homosexuality. --- law changes. --- literary. --- national media. --- nonfiction. --- oscar wilde. --- perceptions of sex. --- political changes. --- queer theory. --- same sex attraction. --- same sex desire. --- sex between men. --- social perspective. --- western sexuality.

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Homosexuality was and still is thought to be quintessentially 'un-African'. Yet in this book Chantal Zabus examines the anthropological, cultural and literary representations of male and female same-sex desire in a pan-African context from the nineteenth century to the present. Reaching back to early colonial contacts between Europe and Africa, and covering a broad geographical spectrum, along a north-south axis from Mali to South Africa and an east-west axis from Senegal to Kenya, here is a comparative approach encompassing two colonial languages (English and French) and some African languages. 'Out in Africa' charts developments in Sub-Saharan African texts and contexts through the work of 7 colonial writers and some 25 postcolonial writers. These texts grow in complexity from roughly the 1860s, through the 1990s with the advent of queer theory, up to 2010. The author identifies those texts that present, in a subterraneous way at first and then with increased confidence, homosexuality-as-an-identity rather than an occasional or ritualized practice, as was the case in the early ethnographic imagination. The work sketches out an evolutionary pattern in representing male and female same-sex desire in the novel and other texts, as well as in the cultural and political contexts that oppose such desires. Chantal Zabus holds the IUF [Institut universitaire de France] Chair of Comparative Postcolonial Literatures and Gender Studies at the University Paris 13 and at the Universities Sorbonne-Paris-Cité, France I. She is author of 'Between Rites and Rights'; 'The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of Language in the West African Europhone Novel', and 'Tempests after Shakespeare'.She is presently Editor-in-Chief of the on-line journal 'Postcolonial Text'.

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