Books in the Sexual Cultures series

Tells the story of the United States Latino body politic and its relation to the state: how the state configures Latino subjects and how Latino subjects have in turn altered the state. This work also charts the interrelated groups that define themselves as Latinos and examines how these groups have responded to calls for unity.

Advances a rethinking of law as capacious rhetorics of citizenship, justice, equality, and freedom.

Addresses the critical paradox of this entrenched relationship that resides even within queer theory itself by formulating critical interventions around "Asian performance."

In everyday language, masochism is usually understood as the desire to abdicate control in exchange for sensation - pleasure, pain, or a combination thereof. This book uses masochism as a lens to examine how power structures race, gender, and embodiment in different contexts.

The author documents the ways in which identity formation and representation within the gay Latinidad population impacts gender and cultural studies today.

Combining psychoanalytic, literary and queer theory, Paul Morrison seeks to account for the explanatory power attributed to homosexuality and its relationship to compulsory heterosexuality. He presents a scathing indictment of psychoanalysis and its impact on the study of sexuality.

At a time when "sexy" can be an adjective for anything, the actual representation of sex is still deemed confrontational, aggressive, and "in your face". In readings ranging across film, drama, opera, fine art and critical theory, Mandy Merck provides a series of studies on this phenomena.

Tracing the proliferation of forms of mourning and memorial across a century increasingly concerned with their historical and temporal significance, this work offers a different view of the aesthetic, social, and political implications of emotion.

Though long thought of as one of the most virulently anti-gay genres of contemporary American politics and culture, this book maintains that religious discourses have curiously figured as the most potent and pervasive forms of queer expression and activism throughout the twentieth century.

A bold and nuanced attempt to question prevailing ideas about community, desire, politics and culture

The LGBT agenda has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. This book contends that queerness is instead a futurity bound phenomenon, a 'not yet here' that critically engages pragmatic presentism.

Contends that our notions of black American identity are not inevitable, nor have they simply been forced onto the black community. This work also argues that black American intellectuals have actively chosen the identity schemes that seem to us so natural.

A study of queer Latino America. Drawing on diverse cultural examples such as bolero, salsa, film, literature and correspondence, it flips the stereotype around, showing how Latin/o American lesbians and gays have consistently eschewed notions of sexual identity for a politics of intervention.

Examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space

Dwight A. McBride examines the quiet way discriminatory hiring practices and racist ad campaigns seep into and reflect malevolent undertones in American culture. McBride maintains that issues of race and sexuality are often subtle and always messy, and his compelling new book does not offer simple answers.

One of a series which promotes scholarship about the experiences of sexual minorities, this book explores the social and cultural significance of the private. The author proposes that, far from a universal right, privacy is limited by one's racial - and sexual - minority status.

The first book solely devoted to Puerto Rican visability and cultural impact. The author looks as such pop icons as JLo and Ricky Martin as well as West Side Story.

A timely study of the troubling links between religion, morality, and sex and the tendancies of secular institutions to use religion to regulate sexual life.

The affair between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky was a huge media story. This book provides a forum for assessing the cultural, political and public policy issues raised by the investigation, publicity and Congressional impeachment proceedings surrounding the affair.

Passing for what you are not - whether assuming another sexual, racial or religious identity - is behaviour which trades on secrecy and revelation. This book analyzes the destructive impact of passing on the ingrained classifications and social demarcations of identity within Western society.

The essays in Queer Globalizations bring together scholars of postcolonial and lesbian and gay studies in order to examine from multiple perspectives the narratives that have sought to define globalization.