LGBT Book Reviews Samples For Students

Tearoom trade: a study of homosexual encounters in public places book, was written by Laud Humphreys as a Ph.D. dissertation with the title "Tearoom trade." The study aimed at analyzing homosexual's behaviors practiced in public toilets. Humphreys affirmed that the men who took part in homosexuality acts emanated from various social backgrounds. The homosexuals differed in their personal motives and belonged to the categories of either being "straight," "bisexual," or "gay." The study tried to identify the common stereotypes associated with men homosexuality in public places. In the study, he realized that most homosexuals lived normal lives, they had families with ...

Rapid modernity in the world has actually caused a lot of unique things that have surprised people, caused fear and even made others happy. Transgender is the ability of a person to have desire of being an opposite sex and identify with it everywhere without shame. These kinds of people will always expect respect from the society and have never imagined that they can be underrated. Noelle Howey has shared her story perfectly well through the book Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhoods - My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine.
Throughout her life, Noelle struggled to gain the true affection for ...

ABSTRACT

In Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School, C.J. Pascoe reported on his fieldwork in a California high school, where he observed how the norms of ‘institutionalized heterosexuality’ were enforced through formal and informal strictures that were embedded deeply in the structure and culture of school life. This included ritualized and routinized threats, ostracism, bullying and harassment of students who did not fit the expected masculine or feminine gender roles and ‘institutionalized heterosexuality’. Indeed, for adolescents, an important part of the very definitions of masculine and feminine originate in contrast to those of their peers perceived to ...

Background

Jennifer Boylan is a successful book author, writer, and pianist. She has written several books and almost all of them were successful in terms of sales and popularity. Jennifer Boylan has so far published a total of eleven books. Two books were memoirs, three were novels, five were adult books and the rest could be classified with a pseudonym that Jennifer Boylan herself fabricated. One of the interesting characteristics of Jennifer Boylan was her habit of giving almost every interesting thing that catches her attention a pseudonym. She even calls her wife by her pseudonym sometimes and even in public places. Majority of ...

Book review on the book "Living in Sin?" by John Shelby Spong

Spong, S. J. (1990). Living in sin? A bishop rethinks human sexuality. New York City: HarperCollins

Book Review

Introduction
Noted for his liberal stand on sexuality, Newark Episcopal Bishop, by John Shelby Spong argues with “passion and provocation” that the traditional Christian views on sexes patriarchal prejudice rather than the will of God. He invites readers to “enter the uncertainty of not knowing” and to free the bible form “literalistic imprisonment” as they entertain possibilities like “brothel” ceremonies, services blessing divorce, and rituals specifying lesbian and gay partnerships. In his view, Spong sees that all this is supplementing traditional marriage, ...

Book Review: Gerson, K. (2011). The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family in America.

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In The Unfinished Revolution: Coming of Age in a New Era of Gender, Work, and Family in America, Kathleen Gerson conducted life-history interviews with 120 young adults age 18 to 32 from a variety of regional, ethnic, social class and racial backgrounds. She wanted detailed information about their experiences growing up in families in recent decades, during a time when a unprecedented revolution in gender roles, sexuality and family and work life was occurring. During this time, more mothers with young children ...

The play Anna in the tropics is written by Cuban – American writer Nilo Cruz. The action in the play revolves around an ageing cigar factory owned by Santiago a man in his late fifties of Cuban origin. The workers in the factory are majorly relatives of Santiago with Cheche, the supervisor being Santiago’s half brother. The lives of the characters in the play are intertwined with the action in the story Anna Karelina and most characters find their mirror in the story. The plot kicks off with the arrival of a new lector in the factory welcomed by Ofelia, Santiago’ ...

ABSTRACT

Patricia Hill Collins’s Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism, Patricia Hill Collins deals with the complex problems of gender and sexual politics in the black community, within the context of a racist and heterosexist society, in which blacks have internalized many of the prejudices and stereotypes held by whites. Although there has been considerable progress in civil rights, women’s rights and gay rights in the U.S. since the 1950s and 1960s, blacks still face the highest levels of poverty, discrimination, poor housing, education and healthcare and HIV/AIDS compared to any other group. Young black ...

Introduction

Andrew Cherlin’s (2009) account of the ‘Evolution of Marriage’ within the American society in his work Marriage-Go- Round forces readers to stop and contemplate the value of this institution in twenty-first century America; how necessary it is in upholding family values and the effects changing elements has on the institution in determining the way younger America perceive marriage.
In the following pages of this document the writer will offer a book review which will encompass a summary of Cherlin’s work; show how it connects with the course being undertaken in sociology and finally give my personal opinion on ...

Section I: progressive review of JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He died and why it Matters

It was anthropologist Mary Douglas who observed that Human is at heart, creatures of denial, they crave for stability especially when their notions are threatened, rearrange the way they conceive issues and deny the challenges. In her book, JFK and the unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matter, Douglas offers an incisive and searing diagnosis of the various ills that marked the death of once an American icon and human activist John F. Kennedy. In an articulate voice, the well known anthologist, advocate and writer in different universities offers a compressive scanning on the episodes that marked the termination ...

“Macbeth” is one of the greatest literary works of William Shakespeare. This play proves why Shakespeare is still the most influential English author. Shakespeare has tried to portray mordant psychosomatic and political effects when people do not hesitate in taking help of evil for fulfilling their aspiration of power. The play is believed to be written in the beginning of the seventeenth century but it still pleases people who love English literature. This paper intends to discuss the “Macbeth” and presents a succinct analysis of the play along with discussing all other related aspects.

The play takes place ...