Customer Review: George Chauncey has written an engaging and informative book that provides entry into another American era's conceptualizations of what we today think of as homosexuality. Gay New York takes great pains to debunk what Chauncey terms "the three myths" of isolation (gay men led solitary lives... more info
Customer Review: *The Trouble with Normal* is Warner's stance against gay marriage. Actually, it's more than that. Warner addresses normalcy and this is where he actually had interesting yet heady things to say. In order to challenge normalcy, Warner takes us through history to show us how shame has been attached to... more info
Customer Review: John Boswell's work still stands as one of the foundational works of social history in the last three decades. While subsequent scholarship has further illuminated the topic, I still feel the breadth and depth of this work makes it time well spent. As Boswell notes: "Tracing the course of... more info
Customer Review: While this book is an asset in learning about lesbian history it is seriously lacking in connecting ideas and seperating fact from oppinion. While some points are made well there are some that are so far off that they devalue what ever point the author was trying to make.
Customer Review: Miller, Neil. "Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present". Advocate Books, revised edition, 2008. Reclaiming Our History Amos Lassen I would be willing to guess that many members of the GLBT community do not know a lot about out history and we have a wonderful... more info
Customer Review: Celebrated in Spanish legends and folklore as the marvelous Lieutenant Nun, Catalina de Erauso was born to a prosperous Basque family in 1585 and sent to a convent at age 4. Destined to become a nun, there she remained until age 15. Days before she was to take her final vows, she escaped, taking... more info
Customer Review: This has to be the second worst book that I've read in along time. His flings and the details that the writer goes into aren't always that interesting. The writer does name names and some are a shock and make you think. However, saying that the book could of been pared down at least 75 pages by... more info
Customer Review: I read the original hard cover edition of 2003. It has 640 pages, some 100 color pictures and some 450 regular text pages. It covers Greece, Judea, the Roman Empire, Western Europe (mainly Italy, Spain [Christian and Muslim], France, England, the Netherlands and Prussia [historic part of... more info
Customer Review: This is the true story of a mother superior named Sister Benedetta Carlini and another nun from a small village near Florence in 17th century Italy who basically liked to rub bodies together in bed until they reached orgasm. This if course was a big no-no if you're a nun sworn to chastity. People... more info
