Simon Goldhill: Queer Cambridge : An Alternative History

UK 2025, 316 pp., hardbound, € 39.95
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Cambridge University Press
»Queer Cambridge« recounts the untold story of a gay community living, for many decades, at the very heart of the British Establishment. Making effective use of chiefly forgotten archival sources - including personal diaries and letters - the author reveals a network that was in equal parts tolerant and acerbic, and within which the queer Fellows of Cambridge University explored ... Weiterlesen

Jen Manion: Female Husbands

UK 2021, 320 pp., pb., € 19.95
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Cambridge University Press
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men, and married women - were true queer pioneers. Moving deftly from the colonial era to just before the First World War, Jen Manion uncovers the riveting and very personal stories ... Weiterlesen

Phillip M. Ayoub: When States Come Out

Europe's Sexual Minorities and the Politics of Visibility. USA/UK 2016, 275 pp., brochure, € 38.99
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Cambridge University Press
In the last two decades, the LGBT movement has gained momentum that is arguably unprecedented in speed and suddenness when compared to other human rights movements. This book investigates the recent history of this transnational movement in Europe, focusing on the diffusion of the norms it champions and the overarching question of why, despite similar international pressures, the trajectories of ... Weiterlesen

Hugh Stevens (ed.): The Cambridge Companion to Gay and Lesbian Writing

UK 2011, 246 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Cambridge University Press
In the last two decades, lesbian and gay studies have transformed literary studies and developed into a vital and influential area for students and scholars. This companion introduces readers to the range of debates that inform studies of works by lesbian and gay writers and of literary representations of same-sex desire and queer identities. Each chapter introduces key concepts in ... Weiterlesen