Peggy J. Kleinplatz - Sadomasochism: Powerful Pleasures

Sadomasochism: Powerful Pleasures

Sadomasochism: Powerful Pleasures has been co-published simultaneously as Journal of Homosexuality, Volume 50, Numbers 2/3 2006.

Monographic Separates from the Journal of Homosexuality

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Sadomasochism: Powerful Pleasures, edited by Peggy J. Kleinplatz, PhD, and Charles Moser, PhD, MD (Vol. 50, No. 2/3, 2006). I would advise anyone interested in doing research on this topic or trying to understand this severely stigmatized behavior to begin with this collection. (Vern L. Bullough, PhD, DSci, RN, Visiting Professor Emeritus, State University of New York; Editor of Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context)

Same-Sex Desire and Love in Greco-Roman Antiquity and in the Classical Tradition of the West, edited by Beert C. Verstraete and Vernon Provencal (Vol. 49, No. 3/4, 2005). This wide-ranging collection engages with the existing scholarship in the history of sexuality and the uses of the classical tradition and opens up exciting new areas of study. The book is an important addition to queer theory. (Stephen Guy-Bray, PhD, Associate Professor, University of British Columbia)

Sexuality and Human Rights: A Global Overview, edited by Helmut Graupner and Philip Tahmindjis (Vol. 48, No. 3/4, 2005). An important resource for anybody concerned about the status of legal protection for the human rights of sexual minorities, especially for those concerned with attaining a comparative perspective. The chapters are all of high quality and are written in a straightforward manner that will be accessible to the non-specialist while containing much detail of interest to specialists in the area. (Arthur S. Leonard, JD, Professor of Law, New York Law School)

Eclectic Views on Gay Male Pornography: Pornucopia, edited by Todd G. Morrison, PhD (Vol. 47, No. 3/4, 2004). An instant classic.... Lively and readable. (Jerry Zientara, EdD, Librarian, Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality)

The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators, edited by Steven P. Schacht, PhD, with Lisa Underwood (Vol. 46, No. 3/4, 2004). Indispensable.... For more than a decade, Steven P. Schacht has been one of the social sciencesmost reliable guides to the world of drag queens and female impersonators.... This book assembles an impressive cast of scholars who are as theoretically astute, methodologically careful, and conceptually playful as the drag queens themselves. (Michael Kimmel, author of The Gendered Society; Professor of Sociology, SUNY Stony Brook)

Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s), edited by Gust A. Yep, PhD, Karen E. Lovaas, PhD, and John P. Elia, PhD (Vol. 45, Nov. 2/3/4, 2003). Sheds light on how sexual orientation and identity are socially producedand how they can be challenged and changedthrough everyday practices and institutional activities, as well as academic research and teaching.... Illuminates the theoretical and practical significance of queer theorynot only as a specific area of inquiry, but also as a productive challenge to the heteronormativity of mainstream communication theory, research, and pedagogy. (Julia T. Wood, PhD, Lineberger Professor of Humanities, Professor of Communication Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Gay Bathhouses and Public Health Policy, edited by William J. Woods, PhD, and Diane Binson, PhD (Vol. 44, No. 3/4, 2003). Important.... Long overdue.... A unique and valuable contribution to the social science and public health literature. The inclusion of detailed historical descriptions of public policy debates about the place of bathhouses in urban gay communities, together with summaries of the legal controversies about bathhouses, insightful examinations of patronsbehaviors and reviews of successful programs for HIV/STD education and testing programs in bathhouses provides. A well rounded and informative overview. (Richard Tewksbury, PhD, Professor of Justice Administration, University of Louisville)

Icelandic Lives: The Queer Experience, edited by Voon Chin Phua (Vol. 44, No. 2, 2002). The first of its kind, this book shows the emergence of gay and lesbian visibility through the biographical narratives of a dozen Icelanders. Through their lives can be seen a small nations transition, in just a few decades, from a pervasive silence concealing its queer citizens to widespread acknowledgment characterized by some of the most progressive laws in the world. (Barry D. Adam, PhD, University Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada)

The Drag King Anthology,edited by Donna Jean Troka, PhD (cand.), Kathleen LeBesco, PhD, and Jean Bobby Noble, PhD (Vol. 43, No. 3/4, 2002). All university courses on masculinity should use this book... challenges preconceptions through the empirical richness of direct experience. The contributors and editors have worked together to produce cultural analysis that enhances our perception of the dynamic uncertainty of gendered experience. (Sally R. Munt, DPhil, Subject Chair, Media Studies, University of Sussex)

Homosexuality in French History and Culture, edited by Jeffrey Merrick and Michael Sibalis (Vol. 41, No. 3/4, 2001). Fascinating.... Merrick and Sibalis bring together historians, literary scholars, and political activists from both sides of the Atlantic to examine same-sex sexuality in the past and present. (Bryant T. Ragan, PhD, Associate Professor of History, Fordham University, New York City)

Gay and Lesbian Asia: Culture, Identity, Community, edited by Gerard Sullivan, PhD, and Peter A. Jackson, PhD (Vol. 40, No. 3/4, 2001). Superb.... Covers a happily wide range of styles... will appeal to both students and educated fans. (Gary Morris, Editor/Publisher, Bright Lights Film Journal)

Queer Asian Cinema: Shadows in the Shade, edited by Andrew Grossman, MA (Vol. 39, No. 3/4, 2000). An extremely rich tapestry of detailed ethnographies and state-of-the-art theorizing.... Not only is this a landmark record of queer Asia, but it will certainly also be a seminal, contributive challenge to gender and sexuality studies in general. (Dd Oetomo, PhD, Coordinator of the Indonesian organization GAYa NUSANTARA: Adjunct Reader in Linguistics and Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia)

Gay Community Survival in the New Millennium, edited by Michael R. Botnick, PhD (cand.) (Vol. 38, No. 4, 2000). Examines the notion of community from several different perspectives focusing on the imagined, the structural, and the emotive. You will explore a theoretical overview and you will peek into the moral discourses that framegay community, the rift between HIV-positive and HIV-negative gay men, and how Israeli gays seek their place in the public sphere.

The Ideal Gay Man: The Story of Der Kreis, by Hubert Kennedy, PhD (Vol. 38, No. 1/2, 1999). Very profound.... Excellent insight into the problems of the early fight for homosexual emancipation in Europe and in the USA.... The ideal gay man (high-mindedness, purity, cleanness