Appendix 2:
Books on LGBT Topics
Reviewed in Contemporary Sociology, 1972-2000
Alphabetical List by Author
NOTE: The 30 books
that were reviewed without ever having been listed
in the “Books Received” section are preceded with >>.
Adam, Barry D. The Rise of a Gay and Lesbian Movement.
Adam, Barry D, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Andre Krouwel (eds.). The Global Emergence of Gay and Lesbian Politics: National Imprints of a Worldwide Movement.
Bailey, Robert W. Gay Politics, Urban Politics: Identity and Economics in the Urban Setting.
Bayer, Ronald. Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis.
Bell, Alan P., Martin S. Weinberg, and Sue Kiefer Hammersmith. Sexual Preference: Its
Development in Men and Women.
Berger, Raymond
M. Gay and Gray: The Older Homosexual Man.
Bersani, Leo. Homos.
Blasius, Mark. Gay and Lesbian Politics: Sexuality and the Emergence of a New Ethic.
>>Bolin, Anne. In Search of Eve: Transsexual Rites of Passage.
Boswell, John.
Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe.
Bozett, Frederick
W. (ed). Gay and Lesbian Parents.
Brooks, Virginia
R. Minority Stress and Lesbian Women.
Bullough, Vern L.
and Bonnie Bullough. Cross Dressing, Sex, and Gender
Butler, Judith.
Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex”.
>>Carrier,
Joseph. De Los Otros.
>>Chafetz,
Janet Saltzman, Paula Beck, Patricia Sampson, Joyce West, Bonnye James. Who’s
Queer?
Chauncey, George.
Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male World.
>>Churchill,
Wainright. Homosexual Behaviour Among Males: A Cross-Cultural and Cross-Species
Investigation.
Comstock, Gay
David. Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men.
Crew, Louie
(ed.). The Gay Academic.
Cruikshank,
Margaret. The Gay and Lesbian Liberation Movement.
>>Delph,
Edward William. The Silent Community: Public Homosexual Encounters.
Devor, Holly.
FTM: Female-to-Male Transsexuals in Society.
Dowsett, Gary W.
Practicing Desire: Homosexual Sex in the Era of AIDS.
Dunne, Gillian A.
Lesbian Lifestyles: Women’s Work and the Politics of Sexuality.
Edwards, Tim.
Erotics and Politics: Gay Male Sexuality, Masculinity and Feminism.
Ekins, Richard. Male Femaling: A Grounded
Theory Approach to Cross-Dressing and Sex-Changing
Ekins, Richard
and Dave King (eds). Blending Genders: Social Aspects of Cross-Dressing and
Sex-Changing.
Epstein, Steven.
Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge.
Ettorre, E.N.
Lesbians, Women and Society
Feinbloom, Deborah Heller. Transvestites and Transsexuals: Mixed Views.
>>Feldman, M.P. and M.J. MacCulloch. Homosexual Behaviour: Therapy and Assessment.
>>Foucault, Michel. History of Sexuality, Vol. 1.
Foucault, Michel. History of Sexuality, Vol. 2.
Foucault, Michel. History of Sexuality, Vol. 3.
Garber, Marjorie. Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and Cultural Anxiety.
>>GLQ (journal)
Greenberg, David. The Construction of Homosexuality.
Greene, Beverly (ed.). Ethnic and Cultural Diversity Among Lesbian and Gay Men.
Gross, Larry. Contested Closets: The Politics and Ethics of Outing.
Halperin, David. Saint Foucault: Toward a Gay Hagiography: Principles in Practice.
>>Harris, Mervyn. The Dilly Boys: The Game of Male Prostitution in Piccadilly.
>>Harry, Joseph. Gay Children Grow Up: Gender Culture and Gender Deviance.
Harry, Joseph. Gay Couples.
>>Hatterer, Lawrence J. Changing Homosexuality In the Male: Treatment for Men Troubled by Homosexuality.
Hawkeswood, William G. One of the Children: Gay Black Men in Harlem.
Herdt, Gilbert (ed.). Gay Culture in America: Essays from the Field.
>>Herdt, Gilbert. Sexual Cultures and Migration in the Eros of AIDS: Anthropological and Demographic Perspectives.
Herdt, Gilbert and Andrew Boxer. Children of Horizons: How Gay and Lesbian Teens are Leading a New Way Out of the Closet.
Herek, Gregory M and Kevin T. Berrill (eds.). Hate Crimes: Confronting Violence against Lesbians and Gay Men.
Herek, Gregory. (ed.). Stigma and Sexual Orientation: Understanding Prejudice against Lesbians, Gay Men and Bisexuals.
>>Herman, Didi. Rights of Passage: Struggles for Lesbian and Gay Equality.
Herman, Didi. The Antigay Agenda: Orthodox Vision and the Christian Right.
>>Humphreys, Laud. Out of the Closets: The Sociology of Homosexual Liberation.
Jacobs, Sue-Ellen, Wesley Thomas, and Sabine Lang (eds).Two Spirited People: Native American Gender Identity, Sexuality, and Spirituality.
Kando, Thomas. Sex Change: The Achievement of Gender Identity Among Feminized Transsexuals.
>>Karlen, Arno. Sexuality and Homosexuality: A New View.
Kayal, Philip M. Bearing Witness: Gay Men’s Health Crisis and the Politics of AIDS.
Kessler, Suzanne J. Lessons from the Intersexed.
King, Dave. The Transvestite and the Transsexual: Public Categories and Private Identities.
Kulick, Don. Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes.
Leinen, Stephen. Gay Cops.
Leupp, Gary P. Male Colors: The Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan.
Levine, Martin P. Gay Men: The Sociology of Male Homosexuality.
Levine, Martin P, Peter M. Nardi, and John H. Gagnon. In Changing Times: Gay Men and Lesbians Encounter HIV/AIDS.
Lewin, Ellen. Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture.
>>Lloyd, Robin. For Money or Love: Boy Prostitution in America.
>>McCaffrey, Joseph A. The Homosexual Dialectic.
Meier, Robert F. and Gilbert Geis. Victimless Crime? Prostitution, Drugs, Homosexuality, Abortion.
>>Mintz, Beth and Esther Rothblum (eds.). Lesbians in Academia: Degrees of Freedom.
Mohr, Richard D. Gay Ideas: Outing and Other Controversies.
Murray, Stephen O. (ed). Latin American Male Homosexualities.
Murray, Stephen O. American Gay.
Murray, Stephen O. and Will Roscoe (eds.). Boy-Wives and Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities.
>>Murray, Stephen O. Social Theory, Homosexual Realities.
Nardi, Peter M. Gay Men’s Friendships: Invincible Communities.
>>Newton, Esther. Mother Camp
>>Oberholtzer, W. Dwight. Is Gay Good? Ethics, Theology and Homosexuality.
Parker, William. Homosexuality: A Selective Bibliography of Over 3000 Items.
Phelan, Shane. Getting Specific: Post-modern Lesbian Politics.
Plummer, Ken (ed.). Modern Homosexualities: Fragments of Lesbian and Gay Experience.
Plummer, Kenneth (ed.). The Making of the Modern Homosexual.
>>Plummer, Kenneth. Sexual Stigma: An Interactionist Account.
Ponse, Barbara. Identities In the Lesbian World: The Social Construction of Self.
Price, Jammie. Navigating Differences: Friendships Between Gay and Straight Men.
Prieur, Annick. Mema’s House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos.
Propper, Alice M. Prison Homosexuality: Myth and Reality.
Rand, Erica. Barbie’s Queer Accessories.
Rayside, David. On the Fringe: Gays and Lesbians in Politics.
Renzetti, Claire M. Violent Betrayal: Partner Abuse in Lesbian Relationships.
Richardson, Diane (ed.). Theorizing Heterosexuality.
Ross, Michael W. Psychovenereology: Personality and Lifestyle Factors in Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Homosexual Men.
Rossman, Parker. Sexual Experience Between Men and Boys: Exploring the Pederast Underground.
>>Saghir, Marcel T. and Eli Robins. Male and Female Homosexuality: A Comprehensive Investigation.
Schoenberg, Richard S. Goldberg and David A. Shore. Homosexuality and Social Work.
Scott, Wilber J. and Sandra Carson Stanley, eds. Gay and Lesbians In the Military: Issues, Concerns and Contrasts.
Seidman, Steven. Difference Troubles: Queering Social Theory and Social Politics.
Sherman, Suzanne (ed.). Lesbian and Gay Marriage: Private Commitments, Public Ceremonies.
Stein, Arlene. Sex and Sensibility: Stories of a Lesbian Generation.
Stein, Edward (ed.) Forms of Desire: Sexual Orientation and the Social Constructivist Controversy.
Tripp, C.A. The Homosexual Matrix.
Troiden, Richard R. Gay and Lesbian Identity: A Sociological Analysis.
Warner, Michael (ed.). Fear of a Queer Planet: Queer Politics and Social Theory.
>>Warren, Carol A. B. Identity and Community in the Gay World.
>>Weinberg, George. Society and the Healthy Homosexual.
>>Weinberg, Martin S. Alan B. Bell. Homosexuality: An Annotated Bibliography
>>Weinberg, Martin S. and Colin J. Williams: Male Homosexuals: Their Problems and Adaptations
Weinberg, Martin S., Colin J. Williams, and Douglas Pryor. Dual Attraction: Understanding Bisexuality.
Weinberg, Thomas S. Gay Men, Drinking and Alcoholism.
Weinberg, Thomas S. Gay Men, Gay Selves: The Social Construction of Homosexual Identities.
>>Weltge, Ralph W. The Same Sex: An Appraisal of Homosexuality.
Weston, Kath. Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship
Whitam, Frederick L. and Robin M. Mathy. Male Homosexuality in Four Societies: Brazil, Guatemala, the Philippines and the United States.
>>Williams, Colin J. and Martin S. Weinberg. Homosexuals and the Military: A Study of Less than Honourable Discharge.
Wolf, Deborah Goleman. The Lesbian Community.
Wolinsky, Marc and Kenneth Sherrill (eds.). Gays and the Military: Joseph Steffan versus the United States.
Woods, James D. The Corporate Closet: The Professional Lives of Gay Men in America.
Appendix 3
Books on LGBT Topics Listed as Received by
Contemporary Sociology But Not Reviewed
(1972-2000)
(N=128)
NOTE: Books listed as received in 1998, 1999, or 2000 are indicated with the issue number in bold. Some of these books may yet be reviewed, particularly those received in 2000.
Aggleton, Peter (ed.). Bisexualities and AIDS: International Perspectives.
Bawer, Bruce. A Place at the Table: The Gay Individual In American Society.
Bayer, Ronald. Private Acts, Social Consequences: AIDS and the Politics of Public Health.
Besner, Hilda F and Charlotte I. Spungin. Gay and Lesbian Students: Understanding their Needs.
Blumenfeld, Warren J and Diane Raymond. Looking at Gay and Lesbian Life.
Blumenfeld, Warren J. (ed.). Homophobia: How We all Pay the Price.
Bond, Lynne and Esther Ruthblum. Preventing Heterosexism and Homophobia.
Boone, Joseph A, Martin Dupuis, Martin Meeker, Karin Quimby, Cindy Sarver, Debra Silverman, and Rosemary Weatherston (eds.). Queer Frontiers: Millennial Geographies, Gender, and Generations. **2000:5
Brown, Lester B, Steven G. Sarosy, Terry Clark Cook and J. Gerramy Quarto. Gay Men and Aging.
Buhrke, Robin A. A Matter of Justice: Lesbians and Gay Men in Law Enforcement.
Carrington, Christopher. No Place Like Home: Relationships and Family Life Among Lesbians and Gay Men. **2000:2
Champagne, John. The Ethics of Marginality: A New Approach to Gay Studies.
Clarke, Eric. O. Virtuous Vice: Homoeroticism and the Public Sphere. **2000:3
Cohler, Bertram J. and Robert M. Galatzer-Levy. The Course of Gay and Lesbian Lives: Social and Psychoanalytic Perspectives. **2000:5
Cromwell, Jason. Transmen and FTMs: Identities, Bodies, Genders and Sexualities. **2000:3
Current Controversies. Gay Rights.
D’Emilio, John. Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States.
D’Emilio, John. Making Trouble: Essays on Gay History, Politics and the University.
David, Whitney. Drawing the Dream of the Wolves: Homosexuality, Interpretation and Freud’s “Wolf Man”.
Davies, Peter M., Ford C.I. Hickson, Peter Weatherburn and Andrew J. Hunt. Sex, Gay Men and AIDS.
DeCecco, John P. and Michael G. Shively (eds.). Bisexual and Homosexual Identities: Critical Theoretical Issues.
Diamant, Louis (ed). Female and Male Homosexuality: Psychological Approaches.
Diamant, Louis (ed.) Homosexual Issues in the Workplace.
Diaz, Rafael, M. Latino Gay Men and HIV: Culture, Sexuality and Risk Behavior. **1998:3
Epstein, Debbie. Challenging Lesbian and Gay Inequalities in Education.
Escoffier, Jeffrey. American Homo: Community and Perversity. **1999:1
Eskridge, Jr. William N. The Case for Same-Sex Marriage: From Sexual Liberty to Civilized Commitment.
Essig, Laurie. Queer in Russia: A Story of Sex, Self and the Other. **2000:1
Faderman, Lillian. Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers: A History of Lesbian Life in Twentieth-Century America.
Falco, Kristine L. Psychotherapy with Lesbian Clients: Theory into Practice.
Fink, Amir Sumaka’I and Jacob Press. Independence Park. The Lives of Gay Men in Israel. **2000:3
Flowers, Charles (ed). Out, Loud and Laughin: A Collection of Gay and Lesbian Humor.
Foldy, Michael S. The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality and Late-Victorian Society. **1998:1
Franzen, Trisha. Spinsters and Lesbians: Independent Womanhood in the United States.
Freedman, Estelle B., Barbarah C. Gelpi, Susuan L. Johnson and Kathleen M. Weston (eds). The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs.
Gantz, Joe. Whose Child Cries: Children of Gay Parents Talk about Their Lives.
Gay Fathers of Toronto. Gay Fathers: Some of their Stories, Experience and Advice.
Gerstmann, Evan. The Constitutional Underclass: Gays, Lesbians and the Failure of Class-Based Equal Protection. **1999:4
Gluckman, Amy and Betsy Reed (eds.). Homo Economics: Capitalism, Community and Lesbian and Gay Life.
Gonsiorek, John C, and James D. Weinrich (eds). Homosexuality: Research Implications for Public Policy.
Green, Richard. The “Sissy Boy Syndrome” and the Development of Homosexuality.
Gruskin, Elisabeh Paige. Treating Lesbians and Bisexual Women: Challenges and Strategies for Health Professionals. **1999:3
Hall Carpenter Archives and Gay Men’s Oral History Group. Walking after Midnight: Gay Men’s Life Stories.
Hall Carpenter Archives and Lesbian Oral History Group. Inventing Ourselves: Lesbian Life Stories.
Harbeck, Karen (ed.). Coming out of the Classroom Closet: Gay and Lesbian Students, Teachers and Curricula.
Hart, John and Diane Richardson. The Theory and Practice of Homosexuality.
Hart, Lynda. Fatal Women: Lesbian Sexuality and the Mark of Aggression.
Hendricks, Aart, Rob Tielman, and Evert Van Der Veen (eds.). The Third Pink Book: A Global View of Lesbian and Gay Liberation and Oppression.
Herdt, Gilbert. Same Sex, Different Cultures: Gays and Lesbians Across Cultures.
Herdt, Gilbert (ed). Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History.
Herek, Gregory, Jared Jobe, and Ralph Carney (eds.). Out in Force: Sexual Orientation and the Military.
Hill, Ivan (ed.). The Bisexual Spouse: Different Dimension in Human Sexuality.
Hirschfeld, Magnus. Transvestites: The Erotic Drive to Cross Dress.
History Project, The. Improper Bostonians: Lesbian and Gay History from the Puritans to Playland. **1998:4
Holmlund, Chris and Cynthia Fuchs (eds.). Between the Sheets In the Streets: Queer, Lesbian, Gay Documentary.
Hunter, Ski, Coleen Shannon, Jo Knox and James I. Martin. Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youths and Adults: Knowledge for Human Service Practices. **1999:3
Inness, Sherrie A. The Lesbian Menace: Ideology, Identity, and the Representation of Lesbian Life.
Island, David and Patrick Letellier. Men Who Beat the Men Who Love Them: Battered Gay Men and Domestic Violence.
Issacs, Gordon and Brian McKendrick. Male Homosexuality in South Africa: Identity Formation, Culture and Crisis.
Kahn, Arthur D. The Many Faces of Gay: Activists Who are Changing the Nation.
Kantor, Martin. Homophobia: Description, Development and Dynamics of Gay Bashing. **1998:4
Khayatt, Madiha Didi. Lesbian Teachers: An Invisible Presence.
Kippax, Susan, R.W. Connel, G.W. Dowsett, and June Crawford. Sustaining Safe Sex: Gay Communities Respond to AIDS.
Kirk, Marshal and Hunter Madsen. After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90’s.
Koertge, Noretta (ed.). Nature and Causes of Homosexuality: A Philosophic and Scientific Inquiry.
Laqueur, Thomas. Making Sex: Body and Gender From the Greeks to Freud.
Lehr, Valerie. Queer Family Values: Debunking the Myth of Family Values. **2000:1
Leiner, Marvin. Sexual Politics in Cuba: Machismo, Homosexuality, and AIDS.
Lemke, Jurgen. Gay Voices from East Germany.
LeVay, Simon. Queer Science: The Use and Abuse of Research into Homosexuality.
Leventhal, Beth and Sandra E. Lundy (eds.). Same-Sex Domestic Violence: Strategies for Change. **2000:2
Levine, Martin P. Gay Macho: The Life and Death of the Homosexual Clone. **1998:4
Lewins, Frank. Transsexualism in Society: A Sociology of Male-to-Female transsexuals.
Lumsden, Ian. Machos, Maricones and Gays: Cuba and Homosexuality.
Martel, Frederic. The Pink and the Black: Homosexuals in France since 1968. **2000:3
Martin, Biddy. Femininity Played Straight: The Significance of Being Lesbian.
Martinez, Elena M. Lesbian Voices from Latin America: Breaking Ground.
McNamara, Robert P. The Times Square Hustler: Male Prostitution in New York City.
McNaron, Toni A.H. Poisoned Ivy: Lesbian and Gay Academics Confronting Homophobia.
Miles, Sara and Eric Rofes (eds.). Opposite Sex: Gay Men on Lesbians, Lesbians on Gay Men. **1999:1
Miller, James. The Passion of Michel Foucault.
Minton, Henry L. (ed.) Gay and Lesbian Studies.
Murray, Stephen O. (ed.). Male Homosexuality in Central and South America.
Murray, Stephen O. and Will Roscoe. Islamic Homosexualities: Culture, History and Literature.
Murray, Stephen O. Homosexualities. **2000:5
Nardi, Peter (ed.). Gay Masculinities. **2000:2
Nardi, Peter M and Beth E. Schneider (eds.). Social Perspectives in Lesbian and Gay Studies: A Reader. **1998:3
Nardi, Peter M., David Sanders, and Judd Marmor. Growing Up Before Stonewall: Life Stories of Some Gay Men.
Newton, Esther. Cherry Grove, Fire Island: Sixty Years in America’s First Gay and Lesbian Town.
Olyan, Saul M. and Martha C. Nussbaum (eds). Sexual Orientation and Human Rights in American Religious Discourse. **1999:2
Osborne, Karen Lee and William J. Spurlin (eds. ). Reclaiming the Heartland: Lesbian and Gay Voices from the Midwest.
Paulson, Don with Roger Simpson. A Gay Cabaret in Seattle: An Evening at the Garden of Allah.
Pflugfelder, Gregory M. Cartographies of Desire: Male-Male Sexuality in Japanese Discourse, 1600-1950. **2000:2
Porter, Jack Nusan. Sexual Politics in the Third Reich: The Persecution of Homosexuals during the Holocaust, A Bibliography and Introduction.
Ramos, Juanita. Compañeras: Latina Lesbians.
Read, Kenneth E. Other Voices: The Style of a Male Homosexual Tavern.
Rhoads, Robert A. Coming Out in College: The Struggle for Queer Identity.
Richards, David A.J. Women, Gays and the Constitution: The Grounds for Feminism and Gay Rights in Culture and Law. **1998:6
Ridinger, Robert B. The Homosexual and Society, An Annotated Bibliography.
Rimmerman, Craig A (ed.). Gay Rights, Military Wrongs: Political Perspectives on Lesbians and Gays in the Military.
Rimmerman, Craig A., Kenneth D. Wald, and Clyde Wilcox. The Politics of Gay Rights. **2000:5
Rofes, Eric E. (ed). Gay Life: Leisure, Love and Living for the Contemporary Gay Male.
Roseblum, Karen E. and Toni-Michelle C. Travis. The Meaning of Difference: American Constructions of Race Sex and Gender, Social Class, and Sexual Orientation. **2000:2
Rosenfels, Paul. Homosexuality: The Psychology of the Creative Process.
Ross, Michael W. The Married Homosexual Man: A Psychological Study.
Rudy, Kathy. Sex and the Church: Gender, Homosexuality and the Transformation of Christian Ethics.
Rupp, Leila J. A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America. **2000:1
Seabrook, Jeremy. Love in a Different Climate: Men Who have Sex with Men in India. **1999:6
Shokeid, Moshe. A Gay Synagogue in New York.
Simpson, Ruth. From the Closet to the Courts: The Lesbian Transition.
Stern, Phyllis Noerager. Lesbian Health: What are the Issues?
Stiers, Gretchen A. From This Day Forward: Commitment, Marriage, and Family in Lesbian and Gay Relationships. **2000:5
Strasser Mark. Legally Wed: Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution.
Tatchell, Peter. We Don’t Want to March Straight: Masculinity, Queers, and the Military.
Terry, Jennifer. An America Obsession: Science, Medicine and Homosexuality in Modern Society. **2000:2
Tierney, William G. Academic Outlaws: Queer Theory and Cultural Studies in the Academy.
Tuller, David. Cracks in the Iron Closet: Travels in Gay and Lesbian Russia.
Weinberg, Jonathan. Speaking for Vice: Homosexuality in the Art of Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and the First American Avant-Garde.
Weinstock, Jacqueline S. and Esther D. Rothblum (eds). Lesbian Friendships: For Ourselves and Each Other.
West, D.J. Homosexuality Re-examined.
West, Donald J. and Richard Green (eds.). Sociological Control of Homosexuality: A Multi-Nation Comparison.
Wilton, Tamsin. EnGendering Aids: Deconstructing Sex, Text and Epidemic.
Wolf, Michelle A. and Alfred P. Kielwasser (eds.). Gay People, Sex, and the Media.
Woodmand, Natalie Jane and Harry R. Lenna. Counselling with Gay Men and Women.
Woods, Gregory. A History of Gay Literature. **1998:4
Wysor, Bettie. The Lesbian Myth: Insights and Conversations.
Yip, Andrew K.T. Gay Male Christian Couples: Life Stories.
Zingo, Martha T. Sex/Gender Outsiders, Hate Speech and Freedom of Expression: Can they say that about me? **1999:5
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