Judith Butler: Undoing Gender

USA 2004, 250 pp., brochure, € 22.89
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»Undoing Gender« constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic, social violence and the tasks of social transformation. In terms that draw from feminist and queer theory, Butler considers the norms that govern - and fail to govern - gender and sexuality as they relate to the constraints on recognizable personhood. The book constitutes a reconsideration of her earlier view on gender performativity from »Gender Trouble«. In this work, the critique of gender norms is clearly situated within the framework of human persistence and survival.

Joan Roughgarden: Evolution's Rainbow

Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People. USA 2005, 474 pp., brochure, € 17.95
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In this innovative celebration of diversity and affirmation of individuality in animals and humans, the author challenges accepted wisdom about gender identity and sexual orientation. An evolutionary biologist herself, Roughgarden takes on the medical establishment, the Bible, social science, and even Darwin himself. She leads the reader through a discussion of diversity in gender and sexuality among fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, including primates. The book explains how this diversity develops from the action of genes and hormones and how people come to differ from each other in all aspects of body and behavior. The author reconstructs primary science in light of feminist, gay, and transgender criticism and redefines our understanding of sex, gender, and sexuality.

Harry Benshoff, Sean Griffin (eds.): Queer Cinema - The Film Reader

USA/CAN/UK 2004, 242 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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»Queer Cinema« brings together key writings that use queer theory to explore cinematic sexualities. The collection examines the relationship between cinematic representations of sexuality and their social, historical, and industrial contexts. »Auteurs« examines the ways in which sexuality figures in the work of queer filmmakers. »Forms« explores how the horror film, the musical, film noir, and the animated film construct queer cinematic spaces. »Camp« looks how this reception strategy and mode of textual production , initially practiced by pre-Stonewall queers, retains its critical charge in contemporary mainstream popular culture. »Reception« considers historical case studies of queer fans interacting with media texts (Judy Garland, Underground Film, and Star Trek).

Pamela Gibson (ed.): More Dirty Looks

UK 2004, 264 pp., brochure, € 31.95
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Hailed as »a paradigm shift in feminist responses to pornography« when first published in 1993, »Dirty Looks« was instantly lauded as a landmark volume. This new edition adds to the core of the original selection new accounts of recent transformations in the politics and presentation of porn. The authors argue for the significance of porn in debates around gender, feminism, and masculinity and the importance of the topic in our understanding of issues of power and cultural identity. Above all, »Dirty Looks« insists on the categorical imperative and critical necessity of continuing to study an area of such immense symbolic and social significance. It includes transnational gay porn, lesbian webcam porn, the cultural and intellectual »economy« of porn, and the presence of genre and narrative in porn texts.

Miriam Lang (Hrsg.): Salsa Cubana - Tanz der Geschlechter

D 2004, 143 S., Broschur, € 12.34
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Das Bild vom Leben auf Kuba unter Castro wird nach außen hin stark von Klischees geprägt. Die Autorinnen in diesem Buch versuchen, die wirkliche Situation der Frauen und Männer auf der Karibikinsel wiederzugeben. So erfährt der Leser, dass es auf der Insel sehr wohl Sextourismus gibt. Auch wird deutlich, wie es um die Emanzipation der Frauen bestellt ist, die ja als zentrale Errungenschaft des Castro-Kommunismus angesehen wurde. Gibt es noch Reste rassistischer Diskriminierung? Wie leben Schwule und Lesben, denen Castro den Kampf angesagt hat? Die Aufsätze in »Salsa Cubana« informieren über wichtige Aspekte des Geschlechterverhältnisses, in die der kubanische Staat an verschiedenen Stellen immer wieder per Gesetz und mittels Frauenförderung lenkend eingreift.

Dana Rosenfeld: The Changing of the Guard

USA 2003, 250 pp., brochure, € 24.20
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One of the first books to link identity, age, and gender, »The Changing of the Guard« offers a significant meditation on the politics of older lesbians and gays. Combining interviews and sustained critical thought, Rosenfeld links the development of lesbian and gay elders' identity with the key moments in the 20th century reinvention of homosexuality. In doing so, she bridges the gap between history and interaction that has characterized - and constrained - previous studies of identity. The author summarizes the meaning of homosexuality that prevailed when her subjects came of age and the radical changes it underwent during their middle years. She uses these changes to trace the paths they took toward one of two homosexual identities: a discreditable one adopted before the advent of gay liberation, or an accredited one, adopted during and through those momentous years. She theorizes that there is the existence of two distinct identity »cohorts«, shaped by a willingness or resistance to accept the historical forces at work on lesbian and gay identity

Nikki Sullivan: A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory

USA 2003, 232 pp., brochure, € 26.95
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Nikki Sullivan explores the ways in which sexuality, subjectivity, and sociality have been discursively produced in various historical and cultural contexts. The book begins by putting gay and lesbian sexuality and politics in historical context and demonstrates how, and why, queer theory emerged in the West in the late 20th century. It goes on to provide a detailed overview of the complex ways in which queer theory has been employed, covering a diversity of key topics including race, sadomasochism, straight sex, fetishism, community, popular culture, transgender, and performativity. Each chapter focuses on a distinct issue or topic, provides a critical analysis of the specific ways in which it has been responded to by the critics (incl. Freud, Foucault, Judith Butler, and others), introduces key terms, and uses contemporary cinematic texts as examples.

Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, Martin Manalansan (eds.): Queer Globalizations

USA 2002, 274 pp., brochure, € 26.95
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Globalization has a taste for queer cultures. Whether in advertising, film, performance art, the internet, or in the political discourses of human rights in emerging democracies, queerness sells and the transnational circulation of peoples, identities, and social movements that we call »globalization« is deemed to be liberating to the extent that it incorporates queer lives and cultures. The essays in »Queer Globalizations« brings together scholars of postcolonial, ethnic, and lesbian and gay studies in order to examine, from multiple perspectives, the meanings and values of this incorporation of queer lives and cultures into global networks. In doing so, the critics reassess the validity of the claims made for globalization both by queer and non-queer theorists and offer critiques that have major implications for queer activism and coalition-building across national boundaries.