Book Display - October 2021
Celebrating LGBTQ+ History Month
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Join the Office of LGBTQ Services, and Athletics, for a screening of the 2019 documentary Changing the Game. The film journeys into the lives of three high school athletes at different stages of their athletic seasons, personal lives, and their unique paths as transgender teens. Oct 14, 7 - 9 p.m. in Althouse 106
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Sex Gender and Sexual Diversity in Sport by "Diverse sex, gender, and sexual identities historically have been pushed to the margins in sport. While there is more visibility and inclusion for LGBTIQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer) people in sport today than in the past, there still exists bigotry and marginalization. In this book, Vikki Krane and a team of leading sport scholars critically assess what we know about sex, gender, and sexuality in sport; expose areas in need of further inquiry; and offer new avenues for theory, research, and practice. Drawing on cultural studies perspectives, and with social justice at the heart of every chapter, the book discusses theory, policy, practice, and the experiences of LGBTIQ people in sport"Call Number: GV708.8 .S49 2019 -
In the Game by "Using interviews with openly gay and closeted team-sport athletes, Eric Anderson examines how homophobia is reproduced in sport, how gay male athletes navigate this, and how American masculinity is changing. By detailing individual experiences, Anderson shows how these athletes are emerging from their athletic closets and contesting the dominant norms of masculinity. From the locker rooms of high school sports, where the atmosphere of "don't ask, don't tell" often exists, to the unique circumstances that gay athletes encounter in professional team sports, this book analyzes the agency that openly gay athletes possess to change their environments."Call Number: GV 708.8 .A43 2005 -
Out in Sport by "Research has shown that since the turn of the millennia, matters have rapidly improved for gays and lesbians in sport. Where gay and lesbian athletes were merely tolerated a decade ago, today they are celebrated. This book represents the most comprehensive examination of the experiences of gays and lesbians in sport ever produced. Drawing on interviews with openly gay and lesbian athletes in the US and the UK, as well as media accounts, the book examines the experiences of 'out' men and women, at recreational, high school, university and professional levels, in addition to those competing in gay sports leagues. Offering a new approach to understanding this important topic, Out in Sport is essential reading for students and scholars of sport studies, LGBT studies and sociology, as well as sports practitioners and trainersCall Number: GV708.8 .A63 2016 -
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Out on the Field by "Out on the field: gender, sport and sexualities will be interesting to the general reader as well as to professors and students in the areas of sociology, women's studies, sport, gender diversity, the social sciences, and the humanities."Call Number: GV709 .L465 2003 -
Coming on Strong by "Acclaimed since its original publication, Coming on Strong has become a much-cited touchstone in scholarship on women and sports. In this new edition, Susan K. Cahn updates her detailed history of women's sport and the struggles over gender, sexuality, race, class, and policy that have often defined it. A new chapter explores the impact of Title IX and how the opportunities and interest in sports it helped create reshaped women's lives even as the legislation itself came under sustained attack."Call Number: GV709 .C34 2015 -
The Anthropology of Sport by "Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil's stadiums or parks in China, on Cuba's baseball diamonds or rugby fields in Fiji, human beings test their physical limits, invest emotional energy, bet money, perform witchcraft, and ingest substances, making sport a microcosm of what life is about. The Anthropology of Sport explores not only what anthropological thinking tells us about sports, but also what sports tell us about the ways in which the sporting body is shaped by and shapes the social, cultural, political, and historical contexts in which we live. Core themes discussed in this book include the body, modernity, nationalism, the state, citizenship, transnationalism, globalization, and gender and sexuality"Call Number: GV706.2 .B48 2018 -
Out at Home by "Before Jason Collins, before Michael Sam, there was Glenn Burke. By becoming the first--and only--openly gay player in Major League Baseball, Glenn would become a pioneer in his own way, nearly thirty years after another black Dodger rookie, Jackie Robinson, broke the league's color barrier. This is Glenn's story, in his own words..."Call Number: GV865 .B336 A3 2015 -
LGBT Athletes in the Sports Media by "
In recent years, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) athletes have received more media attention than ever before. Declining levels of homophobia across the Western world has facilitated a greater acceptance of LGBT athletes among heterosexual teammates, fans, and the sports media. Consequently, academic interest in sport, gender and sexuality has also increased substantially. This edited collection combines studies of gender and sexuality with that of the sports media to provide the first-ever comprehensive academic overview of LGBT athletes in the sports media."Call Number: GV742 .L43 2019 -
Coming Out to Play by "Robbie Rogers knows better than most that keeping secrets can crush you. But for much of his life Robbie lived in paralyzing fear that sharing his big secret would cost him the love of his family and his career as a professional soccer player. So he never told anyone what was destroying his soul, both on and off the field. While the world around Robbie was changing with breathtaking speed, he knew that for a gay man playing a professional team sport it might as well be 1958. He could be a professional soccer player. Or he could be an out gay man. He couldn't do both. Then last year, at the age of twenty-five and after nearly stepping away from a brilliant career--one that included an NCAA Championship, winning the MLS Cup, and competing in the Olympics--he chose to tell the truth."Call Number: GV942.7 .R623 A3 2014 -
Sorted by "
An unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how, through a childhood of gender mishaps and an awkward adolescence, he finally sorted things out and came out as a transgender man in his mid-twenties."Call Number: HQ77.8 .B57 B57 2020 -
Nonbinary by "
What happens when your gender doesn’t fit neatly into the categories of male or female? Even mundane interactions like filling out a form or using a public bathroom can be a struggle when these designations prove inadequate. In this groundbreaking book, thirty authors highlight how our experiences are shaped by a deeply entrenched gender binary"Call Number: HQ77.9 .N645 2019 -
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Gender Queer: a Memoir by "In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears. Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity--what it means and how to think about it--for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere."Call Number: PN6727 .K648 G46 2019
Clarke Forum Display
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Democracy, Race, and Justice : The Speeches and Writings of Sadie T. M. Alexander by Call Number: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2021 -
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail From acclaimed director Steve James, this Academy Award® Nominee, Abacus: Small Enough to Jail tells the saga of the Chinese immigrant Sung family, owners of Abacus Federal Savings of Chinatown, New York. Accused of mortgage fraud, the indictment and trial forces the Sung family to defend themselves - and their bank’s legacy in the Chinatown community - over the course of a five-year legal battle.Call Number: Available Online -
Policing the Second Amendment: Guns, Law Enforcement, and the Politics of Race by Call Number: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2020 -
Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline by Call Number: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2015 -
Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty by Call Number: HV91 .R364 2021Publication Date: 2021 -
Rugged Individualism and the Misunderstanding of American Inequality by Call Number: HM821 .E65 2020Publication Date: 2020 -
Living on the Edge: The Realities of Welfare in America by Call Number: HV91 .R36 1994Publication Date: 1994 -
One Nation, Underprivileged : Why American Poverty Affects Us All by Call Number: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2004 -
Our Latin Table: Celebrations, Recipes, and Memories by Call Number: TX716 .C8 S27 2003Publication Date: 2003 -
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Vice Patrol : Cops, Courts, and the Struggle over Urban Gay Life before Stonewall by Call Number: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2021
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Banned Books Week Display
Banned Books Week
A compilation of books that have been banned or challenged in the United States, along with major reasons given for their restriction.
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All selections are available online through JumpStart. For more information, consult with a librarian by emailing ask@dickinson.libanswers.com
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Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Call Number: PS3613 .A2725243 H47 2017Publication Date: 2017Challenged for: sexual content -
Persepolis by Call Number: N6747 .S245 P4713 2003Publication Date: 2003Challenged for: explicit language, graphic violence -
A Lesson Before Dying by Call Number: PS3557 .A355 L47 1993Publication Date: 1993Challenged for: sexual content, explicit language -
Bloods, An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Call Number: DS559.5 .B56 1985Publication Date: 1991Challenged for: explicit language, graphic violence -
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Call Number: E185.97 .L5 A3 1999Publication Date: 1992Challenged for: explicit language, graphic violence, controversial views during the Civil Rights movement -
Beloved by Call Number: PS3563.O8749 B4 1987Publication Date: 1987Challenged for: sexual content, explicit language, violence -
The Handmaid's Tale by Publication Date: 1985Challenged for: sexual content, explicit language, graphic violence -
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by
Call Number: E185.97 .A56 A3 1970Publication Date: 1970Challenged for: sexual content, explicit language, violence -
Invisible Man by
Call Number: PS3555 .L625 I58Publication Date: 1952Challenged for: sexual content, explicit language, graphic violence -
Native Son by
Call Number: PS3545 .R815 N38Publication Date: 1940Challenged for: sexual content, explicit language