Gender and Sexuality Studies

Recent movers and shakers in gender and sexuality studies.

Updated April 18, 2025
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American teenager how trans kids are surviving hate and finding joy in a turbulent era
Lang, Nico.
Ebook
Abortion our bodies, their lies, and the truths we use to win
Valenti, Jessica
Ebook
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * In a stirring and succinct examination of post-Roe America, "one of the most successful and visible feminists of her generation" (Washington Post) takes on what's become the country's most resonant political issue. A KIRKUS...
Trans philosophy
Zurn, Perry
Ebook
Establishing trans philosophy as a unique field of inquiry, offering tools for our quest toward a more just and equitable world Trans Philosophy defines this burgeoning and polymorphous discipline as philosophical work that is accountable to and illuminative of cross-cultural...
Country queers a love letter
Garringer, Rae
Ebook
Part photo book, part memoir, part oral history project, this volume paints a vivid portrait of queer and trans experiences in rural areas and small towns across the US.In 2013, Rae Garringer embarked on the Country Queers oral history...
Erased a history of international thought without men
Owens, Patricia
Ebook
How a field built on the intellectual labor and expertise of women erased them The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role in the creation of this new cross-disciplinary...
Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America
Luthra, Shefali.
Ebook
KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST * A TIME BEST BOOK OF 2024 * An urgent investigation into the experience of seeking an abortion after the fall of Roe v. Wade, and the life-threatening consequences of being denied reproductive freedom * "Indispensable... Whatever your gender, race,...
Queer as folklore the hidden queer history of myths and monsters
Coward, Sacha
Ebook
The missing thread a women's history of the ancient world
Dunn, Daisy
Ebook
One of The Smithsonian's 10 best history books of 2024 One of BBC History Magazine's best books of 2024 "Thoroughly researched and sprightly.... a complete history of the [Mediterranean world] with the women added back in, as they always should have been."<...
Pretty a memoir
KB
Ebook
Winner of the 2025 GLCA New Writers Award * By a prize-winning, young Black trans writer of outsized talent, a fierce and disciplined memoir about queerness, masculinity, and race. Even as it shines light on the beauty and toxicity of Black masculinity from a transgender...
What She Said Conversations about Equality
Renzetti, Elizabeth.
Ebook
One of Indigo's Most Anticipated Canadian Books * One of CBC Books' Works of Canadian Nonfiction to Check Out This Fall A passionate advocate for gender equity, and one of our most respected journalists, explores the most pressing issues facing women in Canada today with humour and...
Dear cisgender people a guide to trans allyship and empathy
Jones, Kenny Ethan
Ebook
Conversations on the transgender experience may be becoming more commonplace but the topic is still all too often the subject of fierce debate. But behind the shock headlines, what does it really mean to be trans? In this powerful, extensively researched, and deeply personal...
Beyond personhood an essay in trans philosophy
Bettcher, Talia Mae
Ebook
A bold intervention in the philosophical concepts of gender, sex, and self Beyond Personhood provides an entirely new philosophical approach to trans experience, trans oppression, gender dysphoria, and the relationship between gender and identity. Until...
The hard way discovering the women who walked before us
Walker, Susannah
Ebook
The queer Arab glossary Almuejam alearabiu alkubaraa..
Kaabour, Marwan
Ebook
A groundbreaking survey of the language used around queerness in the Arab world, with contributions by leading Arab queer writers, thinkers and activists, The Queer Arab Glossary is a first-of-its-kind surveyof the linguistic landscape surrounding...
Botany of empire plant worlds and the scientific legacies of colonialism
Subramaniam, Banu
Ebook
An accessible foray into botany?s origins and how we can transform its future Colonial ambitions spawned imperial attitudes, theories, and practices that remain entrenched within botany and across the life sciences. Banu Subramaniam draws on fields as disparate as...
Feminist cyberlaw
Jones, Meg Leta
Ebook
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This vibrant and visionary reimagining of the...
Libertine London sex in the eighteenth-century metropolis
Peakman, Julie
Ebook
An eye-opening and richly detailed history of women's sexuality that upends entrenched perceptions of the long eighteenth century.   Libertine London investigates the sex lives of women throughout the period 1680 to 1830, known as the long eighteenth...
Kinky history a rollicking journey through our sexual past, present, and future
James, Esmé Louise
Ebook
A provocative journey through human sexual history, packed with fun factoids and forgotten stories, from the historian and storyteller behind Kinky History, @esme.louisee on TikTok Contrary to popular belief, our predecessors had all sorts of obscene hobbies long before Christian...
Making room three decades of fighting for beds, belonging, and a safe place for LGBTQ youth
Siciliano, Carl
Ebook
From a pioneering advocate for LGBTQ youth, a gripping, impassioned account of how an unhoused queer youth's murder compelled him to create the nation's largest housing program for homeless LGBTQ teens.   "A gut-wrenchingly poignant real-life saga . . . an unputdownable...
Father time a natural history of men and babies
Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer
Ebook
A sweeping account of male nurturing, explaining how and why men are biologically transformed when they care for babies It has long seemed self-evident that women care for babies and men do other things. Hasn't it always been so? When evolutionary science came along, it rubber...
Transsexual transgender transhuman dispatches from the 11th hour
Bilek, Jennifer
Ebook
In this thought-provoking collection of articles Jennifer Bilek delves into the intricate relationship between transsexualism, transgenderism, and transhumanism. She sheds light on how the push for perceived human rights for marginalized groups often obscures broader societal dynamics.Jennifer Bilek...

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