David A. Gerstner (ed.): Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture

UK/USA 2011, 720 pp., brochure, € 67.99
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This encyclopedia covers gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (GLBTQ) life and culture post-1945, with a strong international approach to the subject. The scope of the work is extremely comprehensive, with entries falling into the broad categories of dance, education, film, health, homophobia, the Internet, literature, music, performance, and politics. Slang is also covered. The international contributors come from a wide array of backgrounds: scholars, journalists, artists, doctors, scientists, lawyers, activists. A broad range of ideologies and points of view are represented. Information is completely up-to-date, including full coverage and analysis of such current or ongoing issues as same-sex marriage/civil union and the international AIDS epidemic.

Anna Clark (ed.): The History of Sexuality in Europe

A Sourcebook and Reader. UK/USA/CAN 2011, 358pp., brochure, € 44.95
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In its introduction, »The Magnetic Poetry Kit of Sex«, the book surveys the field of sexuality and introduces the new concept of sexual grammar. The Reader focuses on the modern age, but has three chapters on the ancient and medieval worlds to demonstrate their very different cultures of sexuality. Altogether the book addresses questions such as: Why did ancient Greek philosophers and medieval Islamic poets celebrate men's desire for each other? Was Jesus a queer eunuch? Were Victorians really repressed? How did nonwestern cultures change some Europeans' ideas about sex? Does regulating prostitution protect or punish women who sell sex? How did sexologists learn from feminists, and men and women who desired those of the same sex? Were 1960s feminists pro- or anti-sex?

Amy Lind (ed.): Development, Sexual Rights and Global Governance

UK/USA 2010, 211 pp., brochure, € 47.99
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This book addresses how sexual practices and identities are imagined and regulated through development discourses and within institutions of global governance. The underlying premise is that the global development industry plays a central role in constructing people's sexual lives, access to citizenship, and struggles for livelihood. Despite the industry's persistent insistence on viewing sexuality as basically outside the realm of economic modernization and anti-poverty programs, this volume brings to the fore heterosexual bias within macroeconomic and human rights development frameworks. It fills a gap in understanding how people's intimate lives are governed through heteronormative policies which typically assume that the family is based on blood or property ties rather than on alternative forms of kinship.

Christopher Pullen, Margaret Cooper (eds.): LGBT Identity and Online New Media

USA/UK 2010, 312 pp., brochure, € 44.69
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What is new about new media for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people? The authors' importnat new contribution to existing scholarship on LGBT representation suggests quite a lot. Its chapters critcially engage with queer identities, place, and community in the digital world. New generations of LGBT people are coming out, finding love, and making communities within a world of seemingly infinite possibility. Queer fans negotiate the meanings and importance of their icons. Gay youth engage in »queer identity work« to navigate between their embodied, local experiences and their lives online. Together, these chapters ask how the constraining and productive historical conditions of queer identifications (the closet, visibility, positive representations, the queer body) bring particular significance to online participation.

Andrew Lear, Eva Cantarella : Images of Ancient Greek Pederasty

Boys Were Their Gods. UK/USA 2009, 262 pp., brochure, € 39.89
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Greek pederasty, or »paiderastia« - the social custom of erotic relations between adult men and adolescent boys - was a central characteristic of Greek culture. Both Greeks and non-Greeks saw it, along with the gymnasium with its intimate connection to pederasty, as markers of Greek identity. It is an important theme in Greek literature, from poetry to comedy to philosophy, and in Greek art as well. In Athenian vase-painting - in particular the painted scenes that decorate clay drinking vessels produced in Athens between the 6th and the 4th centuries BC - pederasty is a major theme: indeed, pederastic courtship is one of the mortal activities most commonly depicted. Vase-painting portrayed or referred to pederasty, from scenes of courtship, foreplay, and sex, to scenes of Zeus with his boy-love Ganymede, to painted inscriptions praising the beauty of boys.

Mark J. Blechner: Sex Changes

Transformations in Society and Psychoanalysis. USA/UK 2009, 214 pp., brochure, € 34.79
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The last 50 years have seen enormous changes in society's attitudes toward sexuality. In the 1950s, homosexuals in the U.S. were routinely arrested. Today, homosexual activity between consenting adults is legal all over the U.S., with same-sex marriage legal in Massachusetts and Connecticut. In the 1950s, ambitious women were often seen as psychopathological and were told by psychoanalysts that they had penis envy that needed treatment. Today, a woman has campaigned for President of the United States. Gender identity, once seen as fixed into two categories, male and female, is now understood to have many more variations. These changes are being reflected in Blechner's essays of the last half-century: they aim at a radical shift in psychoanalytic thinking about sexuality, gender, normalcy, prejudice, and the relationship of therapeutic aims and values.

Glyn Davis, Gary Needham: Queer TV

Theories, Histories, Politics. UK/USA/CAN 2009, 190 pp., brochure, € 34.99
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How can we queerly theorise and understand television? How can the realms of television studies and queer theory be brought together, in a manner beneficial and productive for both? An introductory chapter by the editors charts the key debates and issues addressed within the book: »theories and approaches«, »histories and genres«, and »television itself«. Individual essays examine the relationships between queers, queerness, and TV across the multiple sites of production, consumption, reception, interpretation and theorisation, as well as the textual and aesthetic dimensions of television and the televisual. The book crucially moves beyond lesbian and gay textual analyses of specific TV shows that have often focussed on evaluations of positive/negative representations and identities.

Donald E. Hall: Reading Sexualities

Hermeneutic Theory and the Future of Queer Studies. USA/UK 2009, 145 pp., brochure, € 30.99
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This book confronts the reigning practices, priorities, and preoccupations of queer theory and sexuality studies. Looking at a range of texts, from novels to travel narratives to internet porn, the author deftly weaves the theoretical with the literary. He tries to examine the vexed ethical, critical, and political questions arising from sexual consumerism and cross-cultural encounters. He wants to read the changing landscape of sexual identity, finding great cause for optimism and engagement. Moreover he urges the readers to embrace a far-reaching dialogic practice as a mechanism for furthering radical social change. This book shows how our sexual desires and bases for identification are being widely challenged and changed, drawing on hermeneutic theory.