Meg-John Barker

Though not a graphic novel, this high illustrated nonfiction book explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do. Barker and Scheele show how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged. Each page focuses on a specific aspect of the subject.

a graphic history

Queer

Alex Iantaffi

Challenging society's rigid and binary ways of thinking, this original work shows the limitations that binary thinking has regarding our relationships, wellbeing, sense of identity and more. Explaining how we can think and act in a less rigid manner, this fascinating book shows how life isn't binary.

On Both, Beyond, and In-Between

Life Isn't Binary

An exciting new exploration of gender from the creators of the groundbreaking Queer: A Graphic History

Gender: a Graphic Guide

This helpful guide presents ways we can all better understand gender, and how people can change and express their gender identity. Considering biological and cultural understandings of gender, gender expression, and relationships and sexuality, this is an excellent starting point for anybody thinking about what gender means to them.

A Practical Guide for Exploring who You are

How to Understand Your Gender

Benjamin Vincent

Jos Twist

Kat Gupta

This wide-ranging and powerful collection of essays gathers together leading non-binary figures to explore how their gender identities intersect with multiple aspects of other identities including race, class, age, sexuality, faith, community, family, disability and health.

An Anthology of Intersecting Identities

Non-Binary Lives

From the dream team creators of Queer: A Graphic History and Gender: A Graphic Guide

A Graphic Guide

Sexuality

Rewriting the rules -- Rewriting the rules of yourself -- Rewriting the rules of love -- Rewriting the rules of sex -- Rewriting the rules of gender -- Rewriting the rules of monogamy -- Rewriting the rules of conflict -- Rewriting the rules of break-up -- Rewriting the rules of commitment -- Rewriting your rules

An Anti Self-Help Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships

Rewriting the Rules

'Queer: A Graphic History Could Totally Change the Way You Think About Sex and Gender' Vice Activist-academic Meg-John Barker and cartoonist Jules Scheele illuminate the histories of queer thought and LGBTQ+ action in this groundbreaking non-fiction graphic novel. From identity politics and gender roles to privilege and exclusion, Queer explores how we came to view sex, gender and sexuality in the ways that we do; how these ideas get tangled up with our culture and our understanding of biology, psychology and sexology; and how these views have been disputed and challenged. Along the way we look at key landmarks which shift our perspective of what’s ‘normal’ – Alfred Kinsey’s view of sexuality as a spectrum, Judith Butler’s view of gendered behaviour as a performance, the play Wicked, or moments in Casino Royale when we’re invited to view James Bond with the kind of desiring gaze usually directed at female bodies in mainstream media. Presented in a brilliantly engaging and witty style, this is a unique portrait of the universe of queer thinking.

Queer: A Graphic History

Justin Hancock

Plenty of books on sex suggest that it has to be done in a certain way, or in a certain kind of relationship, or with certain people. This isn’t that kind of book. Enjoy Sex is a truly practical, friendly guide through the confusing, and sometimes alarming, world of sex and sexuality. Its radical approach puts your experience at the heart of the book, and invites you to explore what might be enjoyable to you. With the authors’ engaging and thoughtful style, the book challenges the messages we receive about 'normal’ sex, looks at how to understand and care for yourself, delves into ideas of pleasure for different bodies, ages and tastes, explores relationships, and tackles the tricky topics of communication and consent. So, throw out the rule book and learn to listen to your own desires. This may just be the most helpful book about sex ever.

A Practical and Inclusive Guide

Enjoy Sex (How, When and If You Want To)

Julia Scheele

Este libro tiene como objetivo: 1. Abrirte el apetito para que te apetezca descubrir más cosas. 2. Explicar cómo la teoría queer se hizo necesaria como manera de cuestionar ciertas suposiciones populares sobre sexo, género e identidad. 3. Presentarte algunas de las ideas clave de la teoría queer y sus pensadores —de forma tan sencilla como sea posible— así como algunas de las tensiones internas de la teoría queer, además de las diferentes direcciones que ha tomado estos últimos años. 4. Extraer de la teoría queer aquello que parezca más útil para nuestras vidas diarias, nuestras relaciones y nuestras comunidades. 5. La idea es invitarte a conocer la teoría queer y animarte a que intentes pensar de forma queer.

Una teoría gráfica

Laura Harvey

Rosalind Gill

Mediated Intimacy looks at contemporary sex and relationship advice, exploring how our intimate lives are shaped through different media, from manuals and magazines to television and Twitter. By exploring how intimacy is constructed through different media texts, the authors consider which ideas and practices these changing forms of 'sexpertise' open up, and which they close down. The book reveals the intimate operation of power in mediated advice, how words and images, stories and sound can work to shore up social injustice. It critically engages with the ideas of choice and responsibility in sex self-help, arguing that these can obscure and/or justify oppression, even if they're sometimes experienced as empowering and/or pleasurable. This bold and incisive book provides a radical challenge to the assumptions underlying the sex advice industry, and presents a critical, collaborative and consensual vision for sex advice of the future.

Sex Advice in Media Culture

Mediated Intimacy

Voir le monde au-delà des normes de genres, sexualités et relations

Vous n'êtes pas binaire (personne ne l'est !)

Christina Richards

Walter Pierre Bouman

This book addresses the emerging field of genderqueer or non-binary genders - that is, individuals who do not identify as male or female. It considers theoretical, research, practice, and activist perspectives; and outlines a basis for good practice when working with non-binary individuals. The first section provides an overview of historical, legal and academic aspects of this phenomenon. The second section explores how psychotherapeutic, psychological and psychiatric theory and practice are adapting to a non-binary model of gender, and the third section considers the body related aspects, from endocrinology to surgery. This work will appeal to a wide readership, from practitioners working with non-binary individuals - including psychologists, surgeons, social workers, nurses, psychiatrists, endocrinologists, psychotherapists and counselors, lawyers, and healthcare workers - to researchers interested in the study of gender identities, to students and gender activists.

Genderqueer and Non-Binary Genders

"A practical guide to exploring and understanding your sexuality and identity"--

A Practical Guide for Exploring Who You Are

How to Understand Your Sexuality

What can psychology teach us about sex? How do different bodies and brains respond sexually? How can we prevent people being stigmatised for their sexuality? The Psychology of Sex takes you on a tour through the different ways that psychologists have created and sustained certain understandings of sex and sexuality. Bearing in mind the subjective nature of sex, the book explores cultural concerns around sexualisation, pornography, and sex addiction, as well as drawing on research from sexual communities and the applied area of sex therapy. When so much of our relationship to sex happens in the mind, The Psychology of Sex shows us how important it is to understand where our ideas about sex come from.

The Psychology of Sex

Jacqui Gabb

How to Make Relationships Last

Secrets of Enduring Love

Healing Cultural, Social, and Historical Gendered Trauma

Gender Trauma

Darren Langdridge

Most social scientific work on intimate relationships has assumed a monogamous structure, or has considered anything other than monogamy only in the context of 'infidelity'. Yet, in recent years there has been a growing interest among researchers and the public in exploring various patterns of intimacy that involve open non-monogamy. This volume gathers contributions from academics, activists, and practitioners throughout the world to explore non-monogamous relationships. Featuring both empirical and theoretical pieces, contributors examine the history and cultural basis of various forms of non-monogamy, experiences of non-monogamous living, psychological understandings of relationship patterns, language and emotion, the discursive construction of mono-normativity as well as issues of race, class, disability, sexuality and gender. This volume will be of interest to academics and practitioners working in the social sciences and anyone who is seeking greater insight into the intricacies of non-monogamous relationships.

Understanding Non-monogamies

Not your typical sex advice guide... This friendly guide takes a radical approach: it puts your experience at the heart of the book, and invites you to explore what might be enjoyable to you. Written in an engaging and thoughtful style, it challenges the messages we receive about 'normal' sex; looks at how to understand and care for yourself; delves into ideas of pleasure for different bodies, ages and tastes; explores relationships; and tackles the tricky topics of communication and consent. So, throw out the rule book and learn to listen to your own desires.

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