Product Description

Gay Life and Culture is the first ever comprehensive, global account of gay history. It is spectacularly illustrated throughout and includes an extensive selection of images, many of them only recently recovered. From Theocritusâ verses to Queer as Folk, from the berdaches of North America to the boywives of Aboriginal Australia, this extraordinarily wide-ranging book illustrates both the commonality of love and lust, and the various ways in which such desires have been constructed through the ages.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #246240 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-16
• Original language: German
• Binding: Hardcover
• 384 pages

The Times Literary Supplement
'The pictorial richness of this book is a delight... the illustrations splendidly enhance the text of this well-designed book'

About the Author
Robert Aldrich is Professor of History, University of Sydney. His many publications include The Seduction of the Mediterranean: Writing, Art and Homosexual Fantasy and Colonialism and Homosexuality.

Customer Reviews

Simply the best!!!!
Gay Life and Culture is by far the best all round introduction to the gay experience in pubication at this moment in time. It also has a great bibliography to each of the various areas under consideration so that you can explore the subject area in far more depth.