Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific

By Howard Chiang Asian Sexualities, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Trans

Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in which geopolitics assumes central importance.

Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries

By Bruce Henderson LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Pedagogy

Queer Studies: Beyond Binaries is designed as an introductory textbook for undergraduate courses in this rapidly growing field.

The Closet: The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of Intimacy

By Danielle Bobker LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Why was the eighteenth-century closet associated with illicit and transgressive sexuality?

German, Jew, Muslim, Gay: The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus

By Marc David Baer History of Sexuality, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Religion and Sexuality

German, Jew, Muslim, Gay illuminates the complexities of twentieth-century Europe’s religious, sexual, and cultural politics.

Intimate Investments in Drag King Cultures: The Rise and Fall of a Lesbian Social Scene

By Kerryn Drysdale LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

This is a story about the life of a scene at a particular historical and geographic juncture as seen through the eyes of those who brought it into being—and then mourned its passing.

The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance

By Leah DeVun LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf, Trans

The Shape of Sex reveals how and why efforts to define “the human” so often hinged on ideas about nonbinary sex.

The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California

By Clayton Howard 20th and 21st Century United States, LGBTQ, NOTCHES on the Bookshelf

Not just a story of polarization between Gay Liberation and the Religious Right, this is also a story of a consensus over the value of protecting straight privilege.