{"title":"Barry Reay","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarry Reay\u003c\/strong\u003e explores the intersections of history, culture, and identity with a distinctive eye for societal nuances. His works delve into themes of sexuality, archives, and cultural transformation, offering readers a thought-provoking journey through past and present narratives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the intimate revelations in \u003cem\u003eDirty Books\u003c\/em\u003e to the transhistorical insights of \u003cem\u003eTrans America\u003c\/em\u003e, Reay's writings invite reflection on how personal and collective histories shape our understanding of culture and identity within the broader context of arts and history.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"sex-in-the-archives-by-barry-reay-9781526124548","title":"Sex in the Archives","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe archive has assumed a new significance in the history of sex, and this book visits a series of such archives, including the Kinsey Institute's erotic art; gay masturbatory journals in the New York Public Library; the private archive of an amateur pornographer; and one man's lifetime photographic dossier on Baltimore hustlers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShedding new light on American sexual history, the topics covered in \u003cem\u003eSex in the Archives\u003c\/em\u003e are both fascinating and wide-ranging: the art history of homoeroticism; casual sex before hooking-up; transgender; New York queer sex; masturbation; pornography; sex in the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book will appeal to a wide readership: those interested in American studies, sexuality studies, contemporary history, the history of sex, psychology, anthropology, sociology, gender studies, queer studies, trans studies, pornography studies, visual studies, museum studies, and media studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849957953772,"sku":"9781526124548","price":69.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9752993482731.jpg?v=1759067238"},{"product_id":"dirty-books-by-barry-reay-9781526181466","title":"Dirty Books","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn intimate history of the pornographic publisher behind some of the greatest works of the twentieth-century avant-garde.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the 1930s to the 1970s, in New York and in Paris, daring publishers and writers were producing banned pornographic literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe authors of the books were young, impecunious writers, poets, and artists. Most of them wrote to survive, but some relished the freedom to experiment that anonymity provided—men writing as women, women writing as men—and some, such as Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller, went on to become influential figures in modernist literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDirty Books\u003c\/i\u003e tells the stories of these writers and their remarkable publishers: Jack Kahane of Obelisk Press and his son Maurice Girodias of Olympia Press, whose catalogue and repertoire anticipated that of the more famous US publisher Grove Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424045711596,"sku":"9781526181466","price":79.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781526181466.jpg?v=1774769329"},{"product_id":"dirty-books-by-barry-reay-9781526159243","title":"Dirty Books","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the 1930s to the 1970s, in New York and in Paris, daring publishers and writers were producing banned pornographic literature. 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It offers a humorous and vivid snapshot of a fascinating moment in pornographic and literary history, uncovering a hidden, earlier history of the sexual revolution, when the profits made from erotica helped launch the careers of literary cult figures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47424045744364,"sku":"9781526159243","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781526159243.jpg?v=1774769329"},{"product_id":"trans-america-by-barry-reay-9781509511792","title":"Trans America","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTrans\u003c\/em\u003e seems to be everywhere in American culture. Yet there is little understanding of how this came about. Are people aware that there were earlier periods of gender flexibility and contestability in American history? How well known is it that a previous period of trans visibility in the 1960s and early 1970s faced a vehement backlash right at the time that trans, in the form of what was then termed transvestism and transsexuality, seemed to be so ascendant? Was there transness before transsexuality was named in the 1950s and transgender emerged in the 1990s?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBarry Reay explores this history: from a time before trans in the nineteenth century to the transsexual moment of the 1960s and 1970s, the transgender turn of the 1990s, and the so-called tipping point of current culture. It is a rich and varied history, where same-sex desires and identities, cross-dressing, and transsexual and transgender identities jostled for recognition. 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