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Seeking Hyde
by Max GriffinWhen Brent Hyde arrives home from college to find his parents missing from their dairy farm, he feels a creeping sense of dread, but the inept local police won't take him seriously. Determined to find them, Brent drags his boyfriend, Gary, into the search. When Jason Killeen, a senior journalism student from Brent's college, shows up to investigate a twenty-year-old research project involving Brent's mother--and Brent's current employer--the situation gets sticky. Jason insists they're all in danger, and a sudden body count proves him right. While Brent, Jason, and Gary gather clues, a hit man, an FBI agent, and a corporate scientist turn up the heat by embroiling themselves in the investigation. Under that pressure, Brent and Gary's relationship falters, and Brent finds himself turning to Jason, whose understated heroism attracts him. Then an unexpected discovery puts all three of them in mortal danger, and Brent makes a choice that will change them all forever.
Seeking Rights from the Left: Gender, Sexuality, and the Latin American Pink Tide
by Elisabeth Jay FriedmanSeeking Rights from the Left offers a unique comparative assessment of left-leaning Latin American governments by examining their engagement with feminist, women's, and LGBT movements and issues. Focusing on the “Pink Tide” in eight national cases—Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Venezuela—the contributors evaluate how the Left addressed gender- and sexuality-based rights through the state. Most of these governments improved the basic conditions of poor women and their families. Many significantly advanced women's representation in national legislatures. Some legalized same-sex relationships and enabled their citizens to claim their own gender identity. They also opened opportunities for feminist and LGBT movements to press forward their demands. But at the same time, these governments have largely relied on heteropatriarchal relations of power, ignoring or rejecting the more challenging elements of a social agenda and engaging in strategic trade-offs among gender and sexual rights. Moreover, the comparative examination of such rights arenas reveals that the Left's more general political and economic projects have been profoundly, if at times unintentionally, informed by traditional understandings of gender and sexuality. Contributors: Sonia E. Alvarez, María Constanza Diaz, Rachel Elfenbein, Elisabeth Jay Friedman, Niki Johnson, Victoria Keller, Edurne Larracoechea Bohigas, Amy Lind, Marlise Matos, Shawnna Mullenax, Ana Laura Rodríguez Gustá, Diego Sempol, Constanza Tabbush, Gwynn Thomas, Catalina Trebisacce, Annie Wilkinson
Seeking Sanctuary: Stories of Sexuality, Faith and Migration
by John MarnellA glimpse into the lives of LGBTQ migrants in Johannesburg, in their own words Seeking Sanctuary brings together poignant life stories from fourteen lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) migrants, refugees and asylum seekers living in Johannesburg, South Africa. The stories, diverse in scope, chronicle each narrator’s arduous journey to South Africa, and their corresponding movement towards self-love and self-acceptance. The narrators reveal their personal battles to reconcile their faith with their sexuality and gender identity, often in the face of violent persecution, and how they have carved out spaces of hope and belonging in their new home country. In these intimate testimonies, the narrators’ resilience in the midst of uncertain futures reveal the myriad ways in which LGBT Africans push back against unjust and unequal systems.Seeking Sanctuary makes a critical intervention by showing the complex interplay between homophobia and xenophobia in South Africa, and of the state of sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) rights in Africa. By shedding light on the fraught connections between sexuality, faith and migration, this ground-breaking project also provides a model for religious communities who are working towards justice, diversity and inclusion.
Seeking Solace (Dreamspun Desires #69)
by Ari McKayThe Walker BoysAll hands on deck for a shipboard romance—with a secret. Like his cousins, Devin Walker aspires to be a chef, but he wants to indulge his wanderlust while feeding his customers, and working a cruise ship seems like the solution. Since he can’t find an opening in the kitchen, he’s happy to start out in a position behind the bar. While onboard Poseidon’s Pearl, Devin is assigned to shepherd a visiting executive. Paul Bailey is quiet and unassuming, and a car accident that cost him his leg also shattered his confidence. He doesn’t think he’s attractive to other men anymore, and Devin is eager to show him just how wrong he is. Paul has a surprising secret that might sink their passionate affair before it even leaves port.
Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual Reorientation in Evangelical America
by Lynne GerberLosing weight and changing your sexual orientation are both notoriously difficult to do successfully. Yet many faithful evangelical Christians believe that thinness and heterosexuality are godly ideals—and that God will provide reliable paths toward them for those who fall short. Seeking the Straight and Narrow is a fascinating account of the world of evangelical efforts to alter our strongest bodily desires. Drawing on fieldwork at First Place, a popular Christian weight-loss program, and Exodus International, a network of ex-gay ministries, Lynne Gerber explores why some Christians feel that being fat or gay offends God, what exactly they do to lose weight or go straight, and how they make sense of the program’s results—or, frequently, their lack. Gerber notes the differences and striking parallels between the two programs, and, more broadly, she traces the ways that other social institutions have attempted to contain the excesses associated with fatness and homosexuality. Challenging narratives that place evangelicals in constant opposition to dominant American values, Gerber shows that these programs reflect the often overlooked connection between American cultural obsessions and Christian ones.
Seelenmagie (Triade #3)
by Poppy Dennison Jutta GroblebenDie Fortsetzung zu KörpermagieBuch 3 in der Serie - TriadeDas Blut reicht bis in die Seele. Cormac ist seit der Nacht, in der das High Moon Rudel angegriffen wurde, nicht mehr derselbe. Seine Magie ist geschwächt und er wird von einer Blutlust verzehrt, wie er sie seit seiner Verwandlung in einen Vampir nicht mehr erlebt hat. Der Drang, seine Magie wieder aufzufrischen, macht ihn zu einer Gefahr für sein letztes verbliebenes Familienmitglied und der Hunger macht ihn leichtsinnig. Und das ist erst der Anfang. Sich von Liam Benson, dem Beta des Rudels, zu nähren, hätte seinen Hunger stillen sollen, nicht sein Verlangen verstärken. Simon Osborne und Gray Townsend versuchen, eine Kreatur zu bekämpfen, die laut Geschichtsschreibung gar nicht existieren sollte - ein Geschöpf mit allen drei Arten der Magie. Das Rudel muss all seine Kraft aufwenden, um sich gegen die mysteriöse Triade zu wehren und sogar den zwielichtigen Rat der Magier um Hilfe bitten. Während Cormac versucht, die Fehler der Vergangenheit mit seinem Verlangen der Gegenwart in Einklang zu bringen, muss Simon das Unmögliche versuchen: eine Allianz zwischen Gedanken, Körper und Seele.
Segreti di provinica (Serie Holly Creek #2)
by Poppy Dennison Valentina AndreoseSerie Holly Creek, Libro 2Jefferson Lee Davis, il nuovo responsabile alle pubbliche relazioni di Holly Creek, si sta preparando per il prossimo grande evento in città, la Fiera delle Rose. Il lavoro fila liscio, ma il cammino del vero amore si presenta irto di difficoltà. Il suo bel fidanzato, lo sceriffo Zane Yarbrough, riceve delle misteriose telefonate di cui non vuole discutere. E mentre Jefferson Lee viene colto dalla gelosia, un misterioso e affascinante straniero si intrufola nella piccola comunità. In cerca di risposte, Jefferson Lee coinvolge la sua migliore amica Clover Crofton, che lo aiuta a ideare un piano per svelare i segreti dello sceriffo. Ma i due amici finiscono nei guai, mettendo alla prova la relazione tra Jefferson e Zane, che dovranno affrontare i loro problemi di fiducia. E forse anche Clover si troverà a imparare una cosetta o due.
Segundas oportunidades (Segundas oportunidades)
by Susan Laine Marta Gil AlmirónUn libro de la saga "Segundas oportunidades"Siendo adolescente, Addy Monroe tuvo una experiencia que le cambio la vida, aunque técnicamente la "experiencia" le estaba pasado a alguien más en el asiento trasero de un taxi atrapado en el trafico junto a él. Seis años más tarde, en un club de Los Ángeles, Addy conoce al cantante de rock Zak Roscoe --el hombre que sin saberlo le había enseñado quién era en realidad--, y consigue una oportunidad para experimentar a Zak por sí mismo. Siendo una persona privada y reservada, Zak encuentra los decididos avances de Addy tan molestos como intrigantes, y se deja seducir para una noche de placer. Desafortunadamente, los viejos hábitos nunca mueren: la actitud de Zak después del sexo deja bastante que desear, y Addy pronto se da cuenta de que a veces la fantasía y la realidad no tienen mucho en común. Si los deseos fueran segundas oportunidades...
Seidman
by James ErichIn Viking Age Iceland, where boys are expected to grow into strong farmers and skilled warriors, there is little place for a sickly twelve-year-old boy like Kol until he catches the eye of a seið-woman--a sorceress--and becomes her apprentice. Kol travels to the sorceress's home, where her grandson, Thorbrand, takes Kol under his wing. Before long Kol discovers something else about himself that is different--something else that sets him apart as unmanly: Kol has fallen in love with another boy. But the world is changing in ways that threaten those who practice the ancient arts. As Kol's new life takes him across the Norse lands, he finds that a new religion is sweeping through them, and King Olaf Tryggvason is hunting down and executing sorcerers. When a decades-old feud forces Thorbrand to choose between Kol and his duty to his kinsman, Kol finds himself cast adrift with only the cryptic messages of an ancient goddess to guide him to his destiny--and possibly to his death. Honorable Mention: Best Gay Debut Novel/Book Honorable Mention: Best LGBT Young Adult / Coming of Age
Seiltänzer
by Mary Calmes Jutta GroblebenDer fünfundvierzigjährige Englischprofessor Nathan Qells ist sehr gut darin, anderen das Gefühl zu geben, dass sie ihm wichtig sind. Was er allerdings nicht gut kann - sie in seinem Leben zu halten. Er ist ein netter Kerl, er empfindet nur nicht so wie andere Menschen. Deshalb ist ihm auch in der ganzen Zeit, in der er Michael, den Jungen von gegenüber, betreut hat, nie aufgefallen, dass sich dessen Onkel und Vormund, der Mafiaschläger Andreo Fiore, immer mehr in ihn verliebt hat. Dreo hat größere Probleme, als Nate auf sich aufmerksam zu machen. Er zieht seinen Neffen groß und versucht, seinen zwielichtigen Job hinter sich zu lassen und seine eigene Firma zu gründen. Doch dieses Vorhaben wird erschwert, als mehrere Unterweltgrößen durch Anschläge aus dem Weg geräumt werden. Trotzdem ist Dreo immer noch versessen darauf, sich ein neues Leben aufzubauen - ein Leben mit Nate als Mittelpunkt. Ein Leben, das genauso ist, wie Nate es sich immer erträumt hat. Unglücklicherweise, waren diese Anschläge nur Teil einer großen Umstrukturierung, und die Liebe, die Dreo offensichtlich für Nate empfindet, bringt auch diesen in die Schusslinie.
Sein größter Fang (Love's Charter #1)
by Andrew Grey Alina BeckerEs könnte der Fang seines Lebens werden. Zweimal im Jahr flieht William Westmoreland vor seinem unerfüllten Leben in Rhode Island nach Florida, um sich auf Mike Jansens Fischerboot einzumieten und auf den Golf hinauszufahren. Der Ausblick dort bietet zwar mehr als nur das kristallblaue Wasser und die tropischen Gefilde, aber William hat sich nie weiter vorgewagt. Er ist einfach nicht der Typ für eine Urlaubsromanze. Mike hat seinen Charterservice in Apalachicola gegründet, um für seine Tochter und seine Mutter sorgen zu können. Ihre Sicherheit ist ihm dabei immer wichtiger als seine eigene. Er will sich nicht eingestehen, dass seine Zuneigung zu William mit jedem seiner Besuche wächst. An einem wunderschönen Tag beginnt Williams und Mikes letzte Fischfangtour, aber ein unberechenbarer Hurrikan bringt alles ins Wanken und die beiden Männer sitzen plötzlich fest. Mitten in Regen und Sturm werden sie von der Leidenschaft überwältigt, die sie all die Jahre unterdrückt haben. Zurück im Alltag warten allerdings zu viele Verpflichtungen auf William. Werden die beiden es schaffen, die Distanz zwischen ihnen zu überwinden und einen Ort zu finden, an dem sie beide ganz sie selbst sein können? Ihre Reise mag von rauem Seegang geprägt sein, aber die hoffnungsvolle Zukunft, die sie am Ende erwartet, ist die Turbulenzen wert.
Seis Beijos Perdidos: (e uma história de amor)
by Tess SharpeHá coisas, como um beijo, que não podem ser «quase» para sempre! Uma história de descobertas, inevitabilidade e um amor doce entre duas raparigas. Seis Factos Sobre a Penny e a Tate: 1. Elas conhecem-se desde sempre 2. As suas mães são melhores amigas 3. Elas definitivamente NÃO são amigas 4. Elas quase se beijaram várias vezes5. Elas não falam sobre isso 6. Por decisão das suas mães, agora têm de morar juntas… Quando a mãe da Tate precisa de um transplante e a mãe da Penny decide ser a dadora, as duas famílias vão morar juntas e as raparigas declaram tréguas. Só que a Penny e a Tate estão sempre quase a beijar-se… Além de ser estranho, confuso e embaraçoso, é algo sobre o qual nunca falaram e que se torna ainda mais perturbador agora que estão na mesma casa. E no momento em que o «QUASE» se transforma em «ISTO ESTÁ MESMO A ACONTECER», a Penny e a Tate vão perceber que há coisas das quais não podemos fugir. E os quase-beijos são uma delas! Os elogios da crítica: "Tess Sharpe navega com engenho alguns elementos típicos do friends-to-lovers, para construir uma narrativa refrescante e dinâmica… Um romance slow-burn muito inteligente." - Publishers Weekly "Nunca li nadaassim... intenso, imersivo, de partir o coração para logo depois o aquecer e TÃO DIVERTIDO!" - Holly Jackson, autora de A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
Seizing It (Seizing It and Too Good to be True)
by Chris T. KatVeterinary receptionist Kit Hall doesn't get close to people, and for good reasons: his epilepsy makes him feel like a freak, and his ex was an abusive jerk. But that doesn't always deter people from wanting to get close to Kit. When a Good Samaritan saves him from his wannabe boyfriend in a parking lot, he doesn't expect to find the guy so attractive. He definitely doesn't expect his savior to turn out to be his new boss. Dale Miller, veterinarian and old-fashioned guy, sees right through Kit's prickly facade. He likes what he sees, but convincing Kit to give a relationship a shot isn't going to be a walk in the park. Of course, for Kit, resisting Dale isn't going to be easy either.
Selected Amazon Reviews (Semiotext(e) / Native Agents)
by Kevin KillianA book-length selection from Kevin Killian's legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com.An enchanting roll of duct tape. Love Actually on Blu-ray Disc. The Toaster Oven Cookbook, The Biography of Stevie Nicks, and an anthology of poets who died of AIDS. In this only book-length selection from his legendary corpus of more than two thousand product reviews posted on Amazon.com, sagacious shopper Kevin Killian holds forth on these household essentials and many, many, many others.The beloved author of more than a dozen volumes of innovative poetry, fiction, drama, and scholarship, Killian was for decades a charismatic participant in San Francisco’s New Narrative writing circle. From 2003–2019, he was also one of Amazon’s most prolific reviewers, rising to rarefied “Top 100” and “Hall of Fame” status on the site. Alternately hilarious and heartfelt, Killian’s commentaries consider an incredible variety of items, each review a literary escapade hidden in plain sight amongst the retailer’s endless pages of user-generated content. Selected Amazon Reviews at last gathers an appropriately wide swath of this material between two covers, revealing the project to be a unified whole and always more than a lark. Some for “verified purchases,” others for products enjoyed in theory, Killian’s reviews draw on the influential strategies of New Narrative, his unrivaled fandom for both elevated and popular culture, and the fine art of fabulation. Many of them are ingeniously funny—flash-fictional riffs on the commodity as talismanic object, written by a cast of personas worthy of Pessoa. And many others are serious, even scholarly—earnest tributes to contemporaries, and to small-press books that may not have received attention elsewhere, offered with exemplary attention. All of Killian’s reviews subvert the Amazon platform, queering it to his own play with language, identity, genre, critique. Killian’s prose is a consistent pleasure throughout Selected Amazon Reviews, brimming with wit, lyricism, and true affection. As the Hall of Famer himself reflected on this form-of-his-own-invention shortly before his untimely passing in 2019: “They’re reviews of a sort, but they also seem like novels. They’re poems. They’re essays about life. I get a lot of my kinks out there, on Amazon.”
Selected Poems: Emily Dickinson Poems Selected By Anne Car (Bcl1-ps American Literature Ser.)
by Emily DickinsonA collection of poems by &“one of America&’s greatest and most original poets of all time&” (Poetry Foundation). One of the nineteenth century&’s leading poets, Emily Dickinson wrote nearly 1,800 poems during her lifetime, though only a handful were published. This collection includes some of Dickinson&’s best-known works, reflecting her thoughts on nature, life, death, the mind, and the spirit. &“Emily Dickinson is one of our most original writers, a force destined to endure in American letters. . . . Without elaborate philosophy, yet with irresistible ways of expression, Emily Dickinson&’s poems have true lyric appeal, because they make abstractions, such as love, hope, loneliness, death, and immortality, seem near and intimate and faithful.&” —The Atlantic &“Emily Dickinson did not leave any poetics or treatise to explain her life&’s work, so we can come to her poetry with minds and hearts open, and unearth whatever it is we need to find. Her oeuvre is a large one and most of her work was done in secret—she didn&’t share most of what she wrote. Ten or so poems were published in her lifetime, mostly without her consent. She often included poems with letters but, after her death, the poet&’s sister Vinnie was surprised to find almost eighteen hundred individual poems in Dickinson&’s bedroom, some of them bound into booklets by the poet.&” —Publishers Weekly &“Dickinson found love, spiritual quickening and immortality, all on her own terms.&” —The Guardian
Selected Works: Afterlife; Halfway Home; Love Alone; and West of Yesterday, East of Summer
by Paul MonetteTwo novels and two collections of poetry, all powerful reflections on the AIDS experience, from the National Book Award–winning author of Becoming a Man. Afterlife: Three men bond after their lovers die of AIDS, all within a week of one another in the same Los Angeles hospital. Each of the men react differently to the situation he&’s in, but no matter the path each takes, they are all searching for a way to live and love again. Halfway Home: After being diagnosed with AIDS, Tom moves to a California beach house to live out the rest of his life in peace. But the unexpected reappearance of his troubled brother quickly changes everything in this novel about anger, reconciliation, love, and danger. Love Alone: Following his partner Roger Horwitz&’s death from AIDS in 1986, Paul Monette threw himself into these elegies. Writing them, he says, &“quite literally kept me alive.&” Both beautifully written and deeply affecting, every poem is full of resentment, sorrow, tenderness, and a palpable sense of grief—but also love. West of Yesterday, East of Summer: This stunning career-spanning collection includes Monette&’s early work as well as the beautiful and wrenching poems borne out of immense loss. Written with characteristic wit, these poems deftly traverse humor, rage, love, and mourning.
Self-Care in Space
by Eve MortonRoland Ruiz isn't very good at taking time for himself. When he loses a big intergalactic trafficking case at his legal firm, his boss tells him to take the Vacation Station travel liner and visit the vacation moons of Jupiter. What should be fun ends up feeling more like exile, especially as Roland is left unimpressed by the first moon he visits and is snubbed by the locals. Everything changes when a beautiful scientist working on Io shows him the dynamic chemicals that go into synthetic snow, which keeps the vacation ski lodge up and running in the most drastic of space climates.Martha Carpenter has been working hard her entire life and with very little credit. It's only when her ex wins a prestigious grant, however, that she begins to feel resentment creep into her daily life of making weather conditions for some of the Jupiter’s vacation moons. In an effort to stay positive, she turns to her old routine of self-care, and soon meets trans man and disgraced lawyer Roland, who could benefit from her many lessons.As Roland and Martha grow closer, she must decide if being invisible in the workplace is worth the cost to her self-esteem, while Roland must reconcile his failure with his hopeful future. Together they both realize it is far better to be recognized by one person than to be rewarded by many, and that recovery is just as thrilling as discovery.
Self-Made Woman: A Memoir
by Denise Chanterelle DuboisDenise Chanterelle DuBois's transformation into a woman wasn't easy. Born as a boy into a working-class Polish American Milwaukee family, she faced daunting hurdles: a domineering father, a gritty 1960s neighborhood with no understanding of gender nonconformity, trouble in school, and a childhood so haunted by deprivation that neckbone soup was a staple. Terrified of revealing her inner self, DuBois lurched through alcoholism, drug dealing and addiction, car crashes, dangerous sex, and prison time. Dennis barreled from Wisconsin to California, Oregon, Canada, Costa Rica, New York, Bangkok, and Hawaii on a joyless ride. Defying all expectations, DuBois didn't crash and burn. Embracing her identity as a woman, she remade herself. Writing with resolute honesty and humor, she confronts both her past and her present to tell an American story of self-discovery.
Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art
by Nicole Erin MorseIn Selfie Aesthetics Nicole Erin Morse examines how trans feminine artists use selfies and self-representational art to explore transition, selfhood, and relationality. Morse contends that rather than being understood as shallow emblems of a narcissistic age, selfies can produce politically meaningful encounters between creators and viewers. Through close readings of selfies and other digital artworks by trans feminist artists, Morse details a set of formal strategies they call selfie aesthetics: doubling, improvisation, seriality, and nonlinear temporality. Morse traces these strategies in the work of Zackary Drucker, Vivek Shraya, Tourmaline, Alok Vaid-Menon, Zinnia Jones, and Natalie Wynn, showing how these artists present improvisational identities and new modes of performative resistance by conveying the materialities of trans life. Morse shows how the interaction between selfie creators and viewers constructs collective modes of being and belonging in ways that envision trans feminist futures. By demonstrating the aesthetic depth and political potential of selfie creation, distribution, and reception, Morse deepens understandings of gender performativity and trans experience.
Selves, Symbols, and Sexualities: An Interactionist Anthology
by Thomas S. Weinberg Staci D. NewmahrOffering an anthology of original articles on sexuality from a sociological perspective, Selves, Symbols, and Sexualities: An Interactionist Anthology focuses on the diverse and multi-layered meanings of sexuality, sexual behaviors and sexual identities. Thomas S. Weinberg and Staci Newmahr bring you essays that explore sexuality as a social process. As a whole, the book takes the perspective that what each of us understands to be sexual is constructed through everyday social processes and interaction, situated in particular spaces and moments, identified through our social-sexual presentations, and symbolized through language, objects and practices. The book is organized around these four distinct but interrelated processes, and augmented by personal narratives around relevant issues. The authors’ goals for the book are to engage students in the sociological enterprise by providing interesting and insightful entries that emphasize the importance of meaning-making in human sexuality, and to provide them with conceptual tools to understand human sexuality in a complex and quickly changing sexual landscape.
Semblance
by Chris E. SarosDrake isn’t looking for justice. He’s not interested in doing what’s right. He’s after one thing and one thing only: revenge. That means taking down the Boredega drug cartel—and the shadowy, seemingly invincible man who heads it—even if he goes down with them. Drake plans to destroy the cartel from within, and he uses his nightclub, Semblance, as a front for money laundering and drug trafficking. He’s sacrificed almost everything to complete his mission, and just as he’s getting close, he’s derailed by flirtatious bartender Scotty, who offers Drake a glimpse of the happiness he’s missed by pursuing a personal vendetta. Scotty might be irresistible, but Drake has come too far to turn back now. He’ll have to find a way to keep Scotty safe, fend off persistent prostitute Natasha, feed tips to the authorities, and edge his way closer to the upper echelon of the cartel, where he can finally strike. He’ll need to do it all while keeping his intentions covert—and he’s not the only one at Semblance with secrets.
Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism (Secular Studies #43)
by Amber Jamilla MusserThis &“lively and enlightening contribution to queer studies&” investigates power, race, and gender through the lens of masochism (Darieck Scott, author of Extravagant Abjection). In everyday language, masochism is usually understood as the desire to abdicate control in exchange for sensation—pleasure, pain, or a combination thereof. Yet at its core, masochism is a site where power, bodies, and society come together. Drawing on rich and varied sources—from nineteenth century sexology, psychoanalysis, and critical theory to literary texts and performance art—Amber Jamilla Musser employs masochism as a diagnostic tool for probing relationships between power and subjectivity. Engaging with a range of debates about lesbian S&M, racialization, femininity, and disability, as well as key texts such as Sacher-Masoch&’s Venus in Furs, Pauline Réage&’s The Story of O, and Michel Foucault's History of Sexuality, Musser renders legible the complex ways that masochism has been taken up by queer, feminist, and critical race theories. Furthering queer theory&’s investment in affect and materiality, she proposes &“sensation&” as an analytical tool for illustrating what it feels like to be embedded in structures of domination such as patriarchy, colonialism, and racism—as well as what it means to embody femininity, blackness, and pain. Sensational Flesh is ultimately about how difference is made material through race, gender, and sexuality and how that materiality is experienced.
Senses Vol.1 (Senses Series #7)
by Andrew GreySometimes the heart is the most important sense. Caring for a young daughter with cancer is almost enough to make Ken Brighton give up, in Love Comes Silently, but former singer and next-door neighbor Patrick Flaherty brings hope for both of them--if he can manage to break his silence. In Love Comes in Darkness, Howard Justinian has always had to fight for his independence, in spite of his blindness, but when tragedy strikes, he may have to accept help in the form of unassuming Gordy Jarrett. In Love Comes Home, Greg Hampton's son Davey is losing his eyesight, but Tom Spangler isn't going to let that stop a boy from playing his favorite game.See excerpt for individual blurbs.
Sensible Commitments (Senses And Sensations Ser.)
by Susan LaineA Senses and Sensations StoryAfter their troubled pasts and their rocky road to "happily ever after," the time has come for Jordan Waters and Sebastian Sumner to officially declare their love for each other. With the wedding two days before Christmas, the happy couple can't put off addressing their tenuous relationships with their birth families. Between supportive friends like Jack Waters, Kevin Thompson, Bro Sumner, and Lacey Adair, they've had a taste of what a happy home means, regardless of blood ties. As the wedding approaches, all three couples must make peace with their pasts as they prepare to celebrate friendship, brotherhood, and true love.
Sensing Light: A Novel
by Mark A. Jacobson&“A POWERFUL WORK OF FICTION THAT AUTHENTICALLY EVOKES THE BAD AND THE GOOD.&”—Eric Goosby, MD, US Global AIDS Coordinator, 2009–13&“A MOVING STORY OF DOCTORS NAVIGATING THE INTERSECTIONS OF SUFFERING, AMBITION AND DISCOVERY.&”—Krista Bremer, My Accidental JihadThis breakout book by Mark A. Jacobson, a leading Bay Area HIV/AIDS physician, follows three people from vastly different backgrounds, who are thrown together by a shared urgency to find out what is killing so many men in the prime of their lives. Kevin, a gay medical resident from working class Boston, has moved to San Francisco in search of acceptance of his sexual identity. Herb, a middle-aged supervising physician at one of the nation&’s toughest hospitals, struggles with his own emotional rigidity. And Gwen, a divorced mother raising a teen daughter, is seeking a sense of self and security while endeavoring to complete her medical training. Mark A. Jacobson, a professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco and attending physician at San Francisco General Hospital, began his internship in 1981, just days after the CDC first reported a mysterious, fatal disease affecting gay men.