Award Winning Books: Sexuality Studies/Sexual Identity

Deregulating Desire

Flight Attendant Activism, Family Politics, and Workplace Justice

Ryan Patrick Murphy

The Organization of American Historians' David Montgomery Award for the best book on a topic in American labor and working-class history, 2017

How flight attendants have drawn on feminist and LGBTQ activist legacies to challenge big business's rise to power after 1970

252 pages | 6 x 9

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Disruptive Situations

Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut

Ghassan Moussawi

American Sociological Association's Section on Sexualities Distinguished Book Award, 2021
2021 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, National Women's Studies Association

The first comprehensive study to employ the lens of queer lives in the Arab World to understand everyday life disruptions, conflicts, and violence

210 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 table, 2 figures, 3 halftones

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From Identity to Politics

The Lesbian and Gay Movements in the United States

Craig A. Rimmerman

Finalist for the Lambda Literary Foundation's 15th Annual Lambda Literary Award in Biography, 2003

A compelling critique of the gay and lesbian movements in the U.S. and the limits of identity politics

256 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 tables, 2 figs.

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Out in the Union

A Labor History of Queer America

Miriam Frank

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2015
Miriam Frank,recipient of the New York Labor History Association's John Commerford Labor Education Award, 2019

A groundbreaking history of queer activists who advanced the causes of labor organizing and LGBT rights

240 pages | 6 x 9

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Poisoned Ivy

Lesbian and Gay Academics Confronting Homophobia

Toni A. H. McNaron

Honorable Mention for Outstanding Books Awards, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 1997

A startling look at the way academia opens its arms to gay and lesbian scholarship but not to gay and lesbian scholars

256 pages | 6 x 9

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Public City/Public Sex

Homosexuality, Prostitution, and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Andrew Israel Ross

Honorable Mention for the Eugen Weber Book Award from the UCLA Department of History, 2022

How female prostitutes and men who sought sex with other men shaped the history and emergence of modern Paris in the nineteenth century

264 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 figure, 7 halftones, 2 maps

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Q & A

Queer in Asian America

Edited by David L. Eng, and Alice Y. Hom

Book Award from The Association for Asian American Studies, 2001
Honorable Mention for Outstanding Books Awards, Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 1999
Lambda Literary Award for Best Book in Lesbian and Gay Anthologies/Non-Fiction, 1998

A spirited collection of essays, personal testimonies, fiction, and art on what it means to be queer in Asian-America now

445 pages | 7 x 10

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Sportsex

Toby Miller

Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2002

How people perform their sexual identities as athletes and spectators

192 pages | 6 x 9

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Vulnerable Constitutions

Queerness, Disability, and the Remaking of American Manhood

Cynthia Barounis

2020 Piepmeier Book Prize Winner, National Women's Studies Association

Presents an alternative queer-crip genealogy of American masculinity in the twentieth century

278 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 halftones

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