...Lyndon K. Gill The popular presumption of a particularly vicious homophobia in the anglophone Caribbean has nearly rendered (especially male) homosexuality implausible for anyone living in the region. However, Caribbean men who have sex with men (MSM) are disturbingly omnipresent in the public...

...Karen Tongson White Men Aren't Thomas DiPiero Durham: Duke University Press , 2002 . viii + 338 pp . Duke University Press 2004 Karen Tongson is assistant professor of gender studies and English at the University of Southern California. Books in Brief WHITE MEN...

...Tom Boellstorff Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 THE PERFECT PATH Gay Men, Marriage, Indonesia Tom Boellstorff Jna 1997 ad for Ciputra Hotels that appeared in the Indonesian national airline’s in-flight magazine, a smiling Balinese dancer...

...Masha Raskolnikov Duke University Press 2003 BETWEEN MEN, MOURNING Authorship, Love, and the Gift in the Roman de la Rose Masha Raskolnikov And [I] beg with joined hands for mercy for poor, sorrowful Guillaume, who has behaved so well towards me; may he be helped and comforted...

...Barry D. Adam Duke University Press 2000 1045-04.Adam 5/31/00 3:09 PM Page 413 AGE PREFERENCES AMONG GAY AND BISEXUAL MEN Barry D. Adam One of the fundamental questions of sexuality research is how erotic attraction...

...Rachel Adams Female Masculinity Judith Halberstam Durham: Duke University Press, 1998. xiv + 329 pp. $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper Duke University Press 2000 1045-08.Adams 5/31/00 3:11 PM Page 467 Book Review MASCULINITY WITHOUT MEN Rachel...

... College. Books in Brief APPROPRIATING ANXIETIES Targol Mesbah Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity Afsaneh Najmabadi Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. xiv + 363 pp. Afsaneh Najmabadi’s marvelously original Women...

... Men's, 1982 . Bredbeck , Gregory . Sodomy and Interpretation: Marlowe to Milton . Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1991 . Burg , B. R. “Ho, Hum, Another Work of the Devil: Buggery and Sodomy in Early Stuart England.” Historical Perspectives on Homosexuality . Ed. Licata, Salvatore J., and Robert B...

... OF LOVE Neoliberal Single Gay Men in Recessionary South Korea John (Song Pae) Cho After the Asian financial crisis ( IMF Crisis ) in 1997 98, South Korea s queer movement, which had emerged in the liberalizing environment of the country s democratization and globalization, retreated, and queers, along...

...Pete Sigal The Franciscan friar Diego de Landa, in the mid-sixteenth century, and the Holly-wood film producer and director Mel Gibson, in the early twenty-first century, created Maya men as beings with perverted and penetrated bodies. In 1566 Landa wrote his Relación de las cosas de Yucatán...

... for students and scholars interested in a fertile era of Black same-gender-loving men writing, performing, and resisting as though their very lives depended on it. I hope that this exceptional study will be the springboard for Bost's next project, perhaps a biography of the oft-neglected Dixon or some other...

... Travis S. K. Kong's new book is a bold, insightful contribution to the growing literature on gay sexualities in three Chinese-speaking societies. Kong shows how the experiences of men growing up in the People's Republic of China (mostly Shanghai), the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region...

..., and gay men who migrate to cities; a feminist scholar and museum founder; and even China itself as it negotiates with mostly Western countries for entry into the World Trade Organization. What holds the six chapters together is Rofel’s consistent effort to “forestall...

.... As Frantzen predicted so accurately, the study of men and masculinity has been central to these new movements. However, in this essay reviewing four contributions to the field, I argue that women and femininity have once again become sidelined. Increasingly the terminology of both the history of sexuality...

...Nicholas L. Syrett This article explores how letters written by white men living in the Midwest reveal the relation between their location and their strategies to realize queer social and sexual lives from the 1930s through the 1950s. In particular I demonstrate how their relative isolation...

...Alexander Menrisky Abstract This essay draws on critical studies of food, race, class, and environment to consider food's role in the cultivation of queer literary and political cultures in Appalachia. Texts such as Jeff Mann's Loving Mountains, Loving Men , a collection of poetry and essays, speak...

... of these intriguing examples, such as the international disability protests for access and inclusion at the 2004 World Social Forum in Mumbai, India, or the Bullet Project, a peer mentoring program in Chicago for young men with spinal cord injuries from gunshot wounds, McRuer’s book...

... the steel-hearted maiden shows a curious softening toward men: And as [Hippomenes] spoke King Schoenus’ daughter gazed With tender eyes and doubted in her heart Whether this time she wished to win or lose. “What god,” she thought, “who envies beauty’s charms, 506 GLQ...

... of twenty- two interviews we conducted with people from two prominent CBOs in Chennai, a major city in Tamil Nadu, for our discussion on the place of the nirvanam in thirunangais lives. These CBOs define their beneficiary groups as thirunangais, transgender persons, men who have sex with men, and kothis.4...

... of the island's small cultural nationalist movement. Nearly fifty years later, the town retains that reputation—but Sainte-Anne is known for another reason, too, for it is home to one of Martinique's few meeting spaces for men who have sex with men, a secluded section at the end of the commune's most popular...