Jen Manion: Female Husbands

UK 2020, 320 pp., hardback, € 29.90
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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