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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies

Seeking Sanctuary - Stories of Sexuality, Faith and Migration (Paperback): John Marnell Seeking Sanctuary - Stories of Sexuality, Faith and Migration (Paperback)
John Marnell; Foreword by Kapya Kaoma
R380 R148 Discovery Miles 1 480 Save R232 (61%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Seeking Sanctuary brings together poignant life stories from fourteen lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) migrants, refugees and asylum seekers living in Johannesburg, South Africa. The stories, diverse in scope, chronicle each narrator’s arduous journey to South Africa, and their corresponding movement towards self-love and self-acceptance.

The narrators reveal their personal battles to reconcile their faith with their sexuality and gender identity, often in the face of violent persecution, and how they have carved out spaces of hope and belonging in their new home country. In these intimate testimonies, the narrators’ resilience in the midst of uncertain futures reveal the myriad ways in which LGBT Africans push back against unjust and unequal systems.

Seeking Sanctuary makes a critical intervention by showing the complex interplay between homophobia and xenophobia in South Africa, and of the state of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) rights in Africa. By shedding light on the fraught connections between sexuality, faith and migration, this ground-breaking project also provides a model for religious communities who are working towards justice, diversity and inclusion.

Out in the Periphery - Latin America's Gay Rights Revolution (Hardcover): Omar G. Encarnacion Out in the Periphery - Latin America's Gay Rights Revolution (Hardcover)
Omar G. Encarnacion
R3,791 Discovery Miles 37 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Known around the world as a bastion of machismo and Catholicism, Latin America in recent decades has emerged as the undisputed gay rights leader of the Global South. More surprising yet, nations such as Argentina have surpassed more "developed" nations like the United States and many European states in extending civil rights to the homosexual population. Setting aside the role of external factors and conditions in pushing gay rights from the Developed North to the Global South - such as the internationalization of human rights norms and practices, the globalization of gay identities, and the diffusion of policies such as "gay marriage" - Out in the Periphery aims to "decenter" gay rights politics in Latin America by putting the domestic context front and center. The intention is not to show how the "local" has triumphed the "global" in Latin America. Rather the book suggests how the domestic context has interacted with the outside world to make Latin America an unusually receptive environment for the development of gay rights. Omar Encarnacion focuses particularly on the role of local gay rights organizations, a long-neglected social movement in Latin America, in filtering and adapting international gay rights ideas. Inspired by the outside world but firmly embedded in local politics, Latin American gay activists have succeeded in bringing radical change to the law with respect to homosexuality and, in some cases, as in Argentina, in transforming society and the culture at large.

Religious Freedom and Gay Rights - Emerging Conflicts in the United States and Europe (Hardcover): Timothy Shah, Thomas Farr,... Religious Freedom and Gay Rights - Emerging Conflicts in the United States and Europe (Hardcover)
Timothy Shah, Thomas Farr, Jack Friedman
R3,992 Discovery Miles 39 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In the United States and Europe, an increasing emphasis on equality has pitted rights claims against each other, raising profound philosophical, moral, legal, and political questions about the meaning and reach of religious liberty. Nowhere has this conflict been more salient than in the debate between claims of religious freedom, on one hand, and equal rights claims made on the behalf of members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community, on the other. As new rights for LGBT individuals have expanded in liberal democracies across the West, longstanding rights of religious freedom - such as the rights of religious communities to adhere to their fundamental teachings, including protecting the rights of conscience; the rights of parents to impart their religious beliefs to their children; and the liberty to advance religiously-based moral arguments as a rationale for laws - have suffered a corresponding decline. Timothy Samuel Shah, Thomas F. Farr, and Jack Friedman's volume, Religious Freedom and Gay Rights brings together some of the world's leading thinkers on religion, morality, politics, and law to analyze the emerging tensions between religious freedom and gay rights in three key geographic regions: the United States, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe. What implications will expanding regimes of equality rights for LGBT individuals have on religious freedom in these regions? What are the legal and moral frameworks that govern tensions between gay rights and religious freedom? How are these tensions illustrated in particular legal, political, and policy controversies? And what is the proper way to balance new claims of equality against existing claims for freedom of religious groups and individuals? Religious Freedom and Gay Rights offers several explorations of these questions.

Judaism and Homosexuality - An Authentic Orthodox View (Paperback): Rabbi Chaim Rapoport Judaism and Homosexuality - An Authentic Orthodox View (Paperback)
Rabbi Chaim Rapoport; Introduction by Jonathan Sacks; Preface by Berel Berkovits
R668 Discovery Miles 6 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In light of modern changes in attitude regarding homosexuality, and recent controversy surrounding Government legislation, Orthodox Rabbi Chaim Rapoport, Chief Medical Advisor in the Cabinet of the Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth, explores the Jewish stance on homosexuality. values with a balanced, understanding perspective that has, arguably, been lacking among many in the Orthodox Jewish establishment. great deal of debate, not to mention prejudice and discrimination. It will undoubtedly be a vehicle for future discussion and will serve as a brick in the wall of an increasingly harmonious World Jewish Community. exhaustive endnotes for all those who wish to explore the issue further.

Sex, Politics, and Putin - Political Legitimacy in Russia (Hardcover): Valerie Sperling Sex, Politics, and Putin - Political Legitimacy in Russia (Hardcover)
Valerie Sperling
R4,097 Discovery Miles 40 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Sex, Politics, and Putin investigates how gender stereotypes and sexualization have been used as tools of political legitimation in contemporary Russia. Despite their enmity, regime allies and detractors alike have wielded traditional concepts of masculinity, femininity, and homophobia as a means of symbolic endorsement or disparagement of political leaders and policies. By repeatedly using machismo as a means of legitimation, Putin's regime (unlike that of Gorbachev or Yeltsin) opened the door to the concerted use of gendered rhetoric and imagery as a means to challenge regime authority. Sex, Politics, and Putin analyzes the political uses of gender norms and sexualization in Russia through three case studies: pro- and anti-regime groups' activism aimed at supporting or undermining the political leaders on their respective sides; activism regarding military conscription and patriotism; and feminist activism. Arguing that gender norms are most easily invoked as tools of authority-building when there exists widespread popular acceptance of misogyny and homophobia, Sperling also examines the ways in which sexism and homophobia are reflected in Russia's public sphere.

Gay and Lesbian San Francisco (Paperback): Dr William Lipsky Gay and Lesbian San Francisco (Paperback)
Dr William Lipsky; Foreword by Supervisor Tom Ammiano
R611 R554 Discovery Miles 5 540 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In recent years, San Francisco has been synonymous with gay and lesbian pride, and the various achievements of the gay and lesbian community are personified in the city by the bay. The tumultuous and ongoing struggles for this community's civil rights from the 1950s to the present are well documented, but queer culture itself goes back much further than that, in fact all the way back to the California gold rush.

The Declining Significance of Homophobia - How Teenage Boys are Redefining Masculinity and Heterosexuality (Hardcover, New):... The Declining Significance of Homophobia - How Teenage Boys are Redefining Masculinity and Heterosexuality (Hardcover, New)
Mark McCormack
R1,907 Discovery Miles 19 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Research has traditionally shown high schools to be hostile environments for LGBT youth. Boys have used homophobia to prove their masculinity and distance themselves from homosexuality. Despite these findings over the last three decades, The Declining Significance of Homophobia tells a different story. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews of young men in three British high schools, Dr. Mark McCormack shows how heterosexual male students are inclusive of their gay peers and proud of their pro-gay attitudes. He finds that being gay does not negatively affect a boy's popularity, but being homophobic does. Yet this accessible book goes beyond documenting this important shift in attitudes towards homosexuality: McCormack examines how decreased homophobia results in the expansion of gendered behaviors available to young men. In the schools he examines, boys are able to develop meaningful and loving friendships across many social groups. They replace toughness and aggression with emotional intimacy and displays of affection for their male friends.Free from the constant threat of social marginalization, boys are able to speak about once feminized activities without censure. The Declining Significance of Homophobia is essential reading for all those interested in masculinities, education, and the decline of homophobia.

From Drag Queens to Leathermen - Language, Gender, and Gay Male Subcultures (Hardcover): Rusty Barrett From Drag Queens to Leathermen - Language, Gender, and Gay Male Subcultures (Hardcover)
Rusty Barrett
R3,485 Discovery Miles 34 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines gendered language use in six gay male subcultures: drag queens, radical faeries, bears, circuit boys, barebackers, and leathermen. Within each subculture, unique patterns of language use challenge normative assumptions about gender and sexual identity. Rusty Barrett's analyses of these subcultures emphasize the ways in which gay male constructions of gender are intimately linked to other forms of social difference. In From Drag Queens to Leathermen, Barrett presents an extension of his earlier work among African American drag queens in the 1990s, emphasizing the intersections of race and class in the construction of gender. An analysis of sacred music among radical faeries considers the ways in which expressions of gender are embedded in a broader neo-pagan religious identity. The formation of bear as an identity category (for heavyset and hairy men) in the late 1980s involves the appropriation of linguistic stereotypes of rural Southern masculinity. Among regular attendees of circuit parties, language serves to differentiate gay and straight forms of masculinity. In the early 2000s, barebackers (gay men who eschew condoms) used language to position themselves as rational risk takers with an innate desire for semen. For participants in the International Mr. Leather contest, a disciplined, militaristic masculinity links expressions of patriotism with BDSM sexual practice. In all of these groups, the construction of gendered identity involves combining linguistic forms that would usually not co-occur. These unexpected combinations serve as the foundation for the emergence of unique subcultural expressions of gay male identity, explicated at length in this book.

Punch Me Up to the Gods - A Memoir (Paperback): Brian Broome Punch Me Up to the Gods - A Memoir (Paperback)
Brian Broome
R433 R402 Discovery Miles 4 020 Save R31 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rust Belt Femme (Paperback): Raechel Anne Jolie Rust Belt Femme (Paperback)
Raechel Anne Jolie
R415 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R28 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Visceral: The Poetry of Blood (Hardcover): RJ Arkhipov Visceral: The Poetry of Blood (Hardcover)
RJ Arkhipov
R1,030 Discovery Miles 10 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Callin' Out the Gays - And the Straights and Everyone In-Between (Paperback): Larkin Ellzey Callin' Out the Gays - And the Straights and Everyone In-Between (Paperback)
Larkin Ellzey
R605 R554 Discovery Miles 5 540 Save R51 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gay Awareness - Discovering the Heart of the Father and the Mind of Christ on Sexuality (Paperback): Landon Schott Gay Awareness - Discovering the Heart of the Father and the Mind of Christ on Sexuality (Paperback)
Landon Schott; Foreword by Michael L Brown
R320 R294 Discovery Miles 2 940 Save R26 (8%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Homosexuality has taken center stage in our nation, churches, and homes. Everyone knows or cares deeply for someone who experiences same-sex attraction, sexual confusion, or practices homosexuality. While the entire world talks about homosexuality, the subject remains taboo in many churches. The fear of being labeled as hateful, a bigot, or ignorant has kept many Christians out of the conversation. The church remains silent, leaving many people who love God confused about what the Bible really says about sexuality.

Did God make people gay? Does God love homosexuals? Will people have to deal with same-sex attraction their entire lives? Landon Schott brings truth and clarity to sexual confusion, using over 400 scripture references to reveal the heart of the Father and mind of Christ.

Gay Awareness exposes false teaching and deception that have created a false identity through the lens of sexuality instead of the eyes of God's Word. Gay Awareness will stretch you and challenge you, but with relentless love bring you comfort and healing.

In Gay Awareness: Discovering the Heart of the Father and the Mind of Christ, top-selling author and nationally known speaker Landon Schott addresses:

- What the Bible actually says about marriage, sexuality, and homosexuality.

- Mistakes the Church makes when addressing homosexuality and the gay community.

- Contradictions between the gay lifestyle and the Christ-centered lifestyle.

- Clear insight into how to genuinely show Christian love to those who practice homosexuality.

- How people can experience deliverance and freedom.

Featuring an extensive interview with highly respected authority Dr. Michael L. Brown, a multiple book best-selling author and expert on spiritual renewal and cultural reformation, Gay Awareness is the book you've been looking for to find clarity, teach you what Scripture says about homosexuality and how to respond to people with love, grace, and truth.

Infamous - The best laugh-out-loud Regency romp of 2022, the perfect Christmas gift for fans of 'Bridgerton'... Infamous - The best laugh-out-loud Regency romp of 2022, the perfect Christmas gift for fans of 'Bridgerton' (Paperback)
Lex Croucher
R238 Discovery Miles 2 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'Ferociously witty and joyously unrepentant, Infamous wraps a rollicking story of Regency revelry excess around a heart of queer love and the power of self-authorship' Kat Dunn 22-year-old aspiring writer Edith 'Eddie' Miller and her best friend Rose have always done everything together-climbing trees, throwing grapes at boys, sneaking bottles of wine, practising kissing . . . Now that they're out in society, Rose is suddenly talking about marriage, and Eddie is horrified. When Eddie meets charming, renowned poet and rival to Lord Byron, Nash Nicholson, he invites her to his crumbling Gothic estate in the countryside. The entourage of eccentric artists indulging in pure hedonism is exactly what Eddie needs in order to finish her novel and make a name for herself. But Eddie might discover that trying to keep up with her literary heroes isn't all poems and pleasure . . .

Wrestling with God and Men - Homosexuality and the Jewish Tradition (Hardcover): Steven Greenberg Wrestling with God and Men - Homosexuality and the Jewish Tradition (Hardcover)
Steven Greenberg
R1,066 R933 Discovery Miles 9 330 Save R133 (12%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

For millennia, two biblical verses have been understood to condemn sex between men as an act so abhorrent that it is punishable by death. Traditionally Orthodox Jews, believing the scripture to be the word of God, have rejected homosexuality in accordance with this interpretation. In 1999, Rabbi Steven Greenberg challenged this tradition when he became the first Orthodox rabbi ever to openly declare his homosexuality.
"Wrestling with God and Men" is the product of Rabbi Greenberg's ten-year struggle to reconcile his two warring identities. In this compelling and groundbreaking work, Greenberg challenges long held assumptions of scriptural interpretation and religious identity as he marks a path that is both responsible to human realities and deeply committed to God and Torah. Employing traditional rabbinic resources, Greenberg presents readers with surprising biblical interpretations of the creation story, the love of David and Jonathan, the destruction of Sodom, and the condemning verses of Leviticus. But Greenberg goes beyond the question of whether homosexuality is biblically acceptable to ask how such relationships can be sacred. In so doing, he draws on a wide array of nonscriptural texts to introduce readers to occasions of same-sex love in Talmudic narratives, medieval Jewish poetry and prose, and traditional Jewish case law literature. Ultimately, Greenberg argues that Orthodox communities must open up debate, dialogue, and discussion--precisely the foundation upon which Jewish law rests--to truly deal with the issue of homosexual love.
This book will appeal not only to members of the Orthodox faith but to all religious people struggling to resolve their belief in thescriptures with a desire to make their communities more open and accepting to gay and lesbian members.

My Autobiography of Carson McCullers - A Memoir (Paperback): Jenn Shapland My Autobiography of Carson McCullers - A Memoir (Paperback)
Jenn Shapland
R422 R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Save R27 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Queer Bangkok - 21st Century Markets, Media, and Rights (Hardcover): Peter Jackson Queer Bangkok - 21st Century Markets, Media, and Rights (Hardcover)
Peter Jackson
R1,505 Discovery Miles 15 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book analyses the roles of the market and media -- especially cinema and the Internet -- in these transformations, and considers the ambiguous consequences that the growing commodification and mediatisation of queer lives have had for LGBT rights in Thailand. A key finding is that in the early 21st Century processes of global queering are leading to a growing Asianisation of Bangkok's queer cultures. This book traces Bangkok's emergence as a central focus of an expanding regional network linking gay, lesbian and transgender communities in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, the Philippines and other rapidly developing East and Southeast Asian societies.

As a Woman - What I Learned about Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy After I Transitioned (Paperback): Paula Stone Williams As a Woman - What I Learned about Power, Sex, and the Patriarchy After I Transitioned (Paperback)
Paula Stone Williams
R438 R408 Discovery Miles 4 080 Save R30 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pretty Baby - A Memoir (Paperback): Chris Belcher Pretty Baby - A Memoir (Paperback)
Chris Belcher
R429 R396 Discovery Miles 3 960 Save R33 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
They Came to Slay - The Queer Culture of D&D (Paperback): Thom James Carter They Came to Slay - The Queer Culture of D&D (Paperback)
Thom James Carter
R226 R204 Discovery Miles 2 040 Save R22 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Since its inception decades ago, the tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons has offered an escape from the real world, the chance to enter distant realms, walk in new shoes, and be part of immersive, imaginative tales as they unfold. More so, in Thom James Carter’s opinion, it’s a perfect vessel for queer exploration and joy. Journey on, adventurer, as Dungeon Master Thom invites readers into the game’s exciting queer, utopian possibilities, traversing its history and contemporary evolution, the queer potential resting within gameplay, the homebrewers making it their own, stories from fellow players, and the power to explore and examine identity and how people want to lead their lives in real and imagined worlds alike. Grab a sword and get your dice at the ready, this queer adventure is about to begin. (This book is unofficial and unaffiliated with properties Wizards of the Coast and Dungeons & Dragons.)

Music Saved My Life - How I Survived My Parents, A Difficult Marriage, Crazy Religion, and Being Gay (Hardcover): Grant H... Music Saved My Life - How I Survived My Parents, A Difficult Marriage, Crazy Religion, and Being Gay (Hardcover)
Grant H Reynolds
R748 R659 Discovery Miles 6 590 Save R89 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Constellating Home - Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics (Hardcover): V Jo Hsu Constellating Home - Trans and Queer Asian American Rhetorics (Hardcover)
V Jo Hsu
R2,914 Discovery Miles 29 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
From the Closet to the Screen - Women at the Gateways Club, 1945-1985 (Hardcover): Jill Gardiner From the Closet to the Screen - Women at the Gateways Club, 1945-1985 (Hardcover)
Jill Gardiner
R554 Discovery Miles 5 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Gateways Club, at the heart of 1960s swinging London, was one of the few places where lesbian women could meet openly. This book tells its story, from its rise in the 1950s to its closure in 1985, as a secret world of escape--new clientele often found the club only by following likely members to its anonymous exterior on the Kings Road, Chelsea. Celebrities, straight and gay alike, from Diana Dors to Dusty Springfield, relished its bohemian atmosphere, and the club reached a wider audience when it was featured as a backdrop in the 1968 film "The Killing of Sister George." Included are interviews with 80 of its members, famous and not so famous. Their accounts--humorous, tragic, and erotic--reveal how life has changed during the half century since the Gateways began.

Queer Political Theologies (Paperback): Ricky Varghese, David K Seitz, Fan Wu Queer Political Theologies (Paperback)
Ricky Varghese, David K Seitz, Fan Wu
R300 Discovery Miles 3 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While religion and queerness often are viewed as disparate, scholars in both fields of study share concerns and questions about how the modern subject, with its attachments to institutions and communities, is formed. This special issue of GLQ brings together queer studies and political theology in order to explore the relationship between the self and politics, theism, and queerness. Going beyond previous work in queer political theology that has focused primarily on Christianity, contributors to this issue consider how queer sexualities appear in other theological contexts, including articles on astrological, Blackpentecostal, Thirunangai, hijra, and sarimbavy ways of life, recentering marginalized and underrepresented minorities, beliefs, and practices. Contributors Ashon Crawley, Seth Palmer, Vaibhav Saria, David K. Seitz, Liza Tom, Ricky Varghese, Alexa Winstanley-Smith, Fan Wu

A Tale of Two Lives - A funny thing happened on the way to the Palace (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Helen Dale A Tale of Two Lives - A funny thing happened on the way to the Palace (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Helen Dale
R947 Discovery Miles 9 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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