The Sexual Revolutions of Marilyn Chambers

By Jared Stearns 20th and 21st Century United States

A revealing new biography sheds light on X-rated star Marilyn Chambers’ extraordinary career and explores her status as an unsung gay icon.

Family Matters: Queer Households and the Half-Century Struggle for Legal Recognition

By Marie-Amélie George 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Family Matters offers a new way of understanding how beleaguered minority groups may be able to secure meaningful legal change.

Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo

By Elyssa Ford 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Slapping Leather traces gay rodeo as a space where queer people have been able to both embrace and challenge the idealized masculinity associated with the iconic cowboy of the American West.

A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers

By Jen Jack Gieseking 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

A Queer New York traces the gentrification of and by lesbian and queer people from the early days of the AIDS crisis to the last season of The L Word.

Will the Sissy be Triumphant?

By Marlon Ross 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Race and Ethnicity

The concept of sissiness, and the way the epithet is employed, is neither static nor universal.

The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual Health

By Ellen S. More 20th and 21st Century United States, Childhood and Youth, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

How sex education was turned into a flashpoint of the culture wars, a stalking horse for the newly emergent extreme right wing from the late 1960s to the present.

Privilege, Power, and Activism in Gay Rights Politics Since the 1970s

By Jonathan Bell 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Beyond the Politics of the Closet examines the reorientation of LGBT politics from the 1970s to the 1990s.