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This essential introductory guide explores and aggressively expands the provocative new field of sexual identity studies. ft explains the history of sexual identity categories. such as "gay" and "lesbian." covers the reclamation of "queer" as a term of radical self-identification and details recent challenges to sexual identity studies posed by transgender and bisexual theories. Donald E. Hall offers concrete applications of the abstract theories he explores, with imaginative new readings of such works as "The Yellow Wallpaper," Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Orlando and The Color Purple.