Books like Female desires by Evelyn Blackwood

Deviations assembles Gayle S. Rubin’s seminal essays—from feminist classics like "The Traffic in Women" and "Thinking Sex" to in-depth studies on lesbian history, sadomasochism, and sex‑knowledge, charting her influence on queer theory and feminist thought.

A scholarly examination of how contemporary lesbian and butch/femme relationships form and organize across Asia, positioned within nationalist politics, religious movements, state gender policies, and global queer activism.

An edited collection that explores the lives and cultures of Two‑Spirit peoples—Native Americans whose gender and sexual identities transcend conventional categories.

Gay Shame interrogates the cultural politics of pride, exposing how the pursuit of a positive gay identity has silenced uncomfortable truths about shame, history, and identity in LGBTQ communities.

As contemporary Native and non-Native Americans explore various forms of "gender bending" and gay and lesbian identities, interest has grown in "berdaches," the womanly men and manly women who existed in many Native American tribal cultures. Yet attempts to find current role models in these historical figures sometimes distort and oversimplify the historical realities.This book provides an objective, comprehensive study of Native American women-men and men-women across many tribal cultures and an extended time span. Sabine Lang explores such topics as their religious and secular roles; the relation of the roles of women-men and men-women to the roles of women and men in their respective societies; the ways in which gender-role change was carried out, legitimized, and explained in Native American cultures; the widely differing attitudes toward women-men and men-women in tribal cultures; and the role of these figures in Native mythology. Lang's findings challenge the apparent gender equality of the "berdache" institution, as well as the supposed universality of concepts such as homosexuality.

The Stranger Next Door examines how economic decline in a small Oregon town fueled a clash over gay rights, exploring how fear drives communities to oppose LGBTQ civil liberties.