Probes the biggest taboo in contemporary Arab culture with scholarly intent and integrity - female homosexuality. This book puts forward an argument that female homosexuality has a long history in Arabic literature and scholarship, beginning in the ninth century, and traces the …
"In Unruly Figures, Navaneetha Mokkil tracks the cultural practices through which sexual figures--particularly the sex worker and the lesbian--are produced in the public imagination. Her analysis includes representations of the prostitute figure in popular media, trajectories of…
Introduction: sexual figures of Kerala -- Tracing the prostitute: between excess and containment -- To claim the day: the sex worker as subject in the time of AIDS -- Wandering in the vernacular: divergent visions of queerness -- Living together, dying together: the politics of …
This A-Z guide to lesbians and lesbianism in the movies contains reviews, gossip, facts and commentary on over 200 films, including specifically lesbian films such as "Go Fish" and "Desert Hearts" as well as films with a lesbian character or theme, like "The Children's Hour" and…
These political, philosophical, and literary essays mark the first collection of theoretical writing from the acclaimed novelist and French feminist writer Monique Wittig.
These political, philosophical, and literary essays mark the first collection of theoretical writing from the acclaimed novelist and French feminist writer Monique Wittig.
These political, philosophical, and literary essays mark the first collection of theoretical writing from the acclaimed novelist and French feminist writer Monique Wittig.