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Sample eBooks

Aldama, Frederick Luis. Brown on Brown : Chicano/a Representations of Gender, Sexuality, and Ethnicity /. 1st ed., University of Texas Press, 2005, http://site.ebrary.com/lib/prin/Top?id=10172706.

Didur, Jill. Unsettling Partition : Literature, Gender, Memory /. University of Toronto Press, 2006.

Glick, Elisa. Materializing Queer Desire : Oscar Wilde to Andy Warhol /. State University of New York Press, 2009, http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=549531.

Gordon, Joan, et al. Queer Universes: Sexualities in Science Fiction. Cambridge University Press, 2011. Open WorldCat, http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=242474.

Harris, Andrea L. Other Sexes : Rewriting Difference from Woolf to Winterson /. State University of New York Press, 2000, http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=44164.

Hoeveler, Diane Long. Gothic Feminism : The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontës /. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1998.

Horton-Stallings, LaMonda. Funk the Erotic : Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures /. University of Illinois Press, 2015, http://site.ebrary.com/lib/prin/Top?id=11137405.

McRuer, Robert. The Queer Renaissance : Contemporary American Literature and the Reinvention of Lesbian and Gay Identities /. New York University Press, 1997, http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=47870.

Różalska, Aleksandra M., and Grażyna Zygadło. Narrating American Gender and Ethnic Identities. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. Open WorldCat, http://site.ebrary.com/lib/prin/Top?id=10742352.

Summers, Claude J. Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage. Vol. Revised edition, Routledge, 2002. EBSCOhost, http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=707852.

Summers, Claude J. The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage: A Reader’s Companion to the Writers and Their Works, from Antiquity to the Present. Revised edition., Routledge, 2002. Open WorldCat, http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=707852.

Waite, Stacey. Teaching Queer : Radical Possibilities for Writing and Knowing /. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017, http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1542395.