Awfully Devoted Women
Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65
By Cameron Duder

This intimate study of the lives of middle-class lesbians who came of age before the gay rights movement unveils a previously unknown world of private relationships, discreet social networks, and love.

2010, 328 pages, 6 x 9"

The Canadian War on Queers
National Security as Sexual Regulation
By Gary Kinsman and Patrizia Gentile

This path-breaking account of how the state used national security to wage war on its own people offers ways of understanding, and resisting, contemporary ideological conflicts such as the "war on terror."

2009, 584 pages, 6 x 9"

Sapphistries
A Global History of Love between Women
By Leila J. Rupp

Combines lyrical narrative with meticulous historical research, providing a uniquely sweeping story of desire, love, and sex between women around the globe from the beginning of time to the present.

2009, 320 pages, 6 x 9"

Undercurrents
Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong
By Helen Hok-Sze Leung

Engages the critical rubric of "queer" to examine Hong Kong's screen and media culture during the transitional and immediate postcolonial period. Undercurrents uncovers a queer media culture that has been largely overlooked by critics in the West, and demonstrates the cultural vitality of Hong Kong amidst political transition.

2008, 168 pages, 6 x 9"

Sexing the Teacher
School Sex Scandals and Queer Pedagogies
By Sheila L. Cavanagh

Examines the moral and professional panic over sexual transgressions in the educational milieu by analyzing several sensationalized legal cases. A provocative study of public and professional responses to female teacher sex scandals in Canada, the United States, and Britain.

2007, 240 pages, 6 x 9"

The Manly Modern
Masculinity in Postwar Canada
By Christopher Dummitt

The first major book on the history of masculinity in Canada. Through a series of case studies covering such diverse subjects as car culture, mountaineering, war veterans, murder trials, and a bridge collapse, Christopher Dummitt argues that the very idea of what it meant to be modern was gendered.

2007, 232 pages, 6 x 9"

Queer Youth in the Province of the "Severely Normal"

By Gloria Filax

Explores how youth identities have been constructed through dominant and often competing discourses about youth, sexuality, and gender, and how queer youth in the province of Alberta negotiated the contradictions of these discourses.

2006, 200 pages, 6 x 9”

Every Inch a Woman
Phallic Possession, Femininity, and the Text
By Carellin Brooks

Witty and engaging, Every Inch a Woman makes an innovative contribution to sexuality, gender, and women's studies, as well as psychoanalytic theory and criticism.

2005, 224 pages, 6 x 9”

Masculinities without Men?
Female Masculinity in Twentieth-Century Fictions
By J. Bobby Noble

This groundbreaking study explores how the construction of gender was thrown into crisis during the twentieth century, resulting in a permanent rupture in the sex/gender system, and how masculinity became an unstable category, altered across time, region, social class, and ethnicity.

2003, 222 pages, 6 x 9”