David K. Johnson: Buying Gay: How Physique Entrepreneurs Sparked a Movement

USA 2019, 328 pp., hardbound, € 49.95
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Columbia University Press
In 1951, a new type of publication appeared on newsstands: the physique magazine produced by and for gay men. For many men growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, these magazines and their images and illustrations of nearly naked men, as well as articles, letters from readers, and advertisements, served as an initiation into gay culture. The publishers behind them ... Weiterlesen

Micah Rajunov / Scott Duane (eds.): Nonbinary

Memoirs of Gender and Identity. USA 2019, 250 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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Columbia University Press
What happens when your gender doesn't fit neatly into the categories of male or female? Even mundane interactions like filling out a form or using a public bathroom can be a struggle when these designations prove inadequate. In this book, thirty authors highlight how our experiences are shaped by a deeply entrenched gender binary. The first-person narratives of this collection ... Weiterlesen

Paul B. Preciado: Countersexual Manifesto

Transl. by Kevin Gerry Dunn. USA 2018, 216 pp., brochure, € 29.99
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Columbia University Press
»Countersexual Manifesto« is an outrageous yet rigorous work of transgender theory, a performative literary text, and an insistent call to action. Seeking to overthrow all constraints on what can be done with and to the body, transman Paul B. Preciado offers a provocative challenge to even the most radical claims about gender, sexuality, and desire. He lays out mock constitutional ... Weiterlesen

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Between Men

English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. USA 2016 (Reprint), 244 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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Columbia University Press
First published in 1985, »Between Men« was a decisive intervention in gender studies, a book that all but singlehandedly dislodged a tradition of literary critique that suppressed queer subjects and subjectivities. The author's work opened not only literature but also politics, society, and culture to broader investigations of power, sex, and desire, and to new possibilities of critical agency. With ... Weiterlesen

Joseph Allen Boone: The Homoerotics of Orientalism

USA 2015, 520 pp., brochure, € 49.99
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Columbia University Press
One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with »deviant« male homosexuality by scores of Western travellers, historians, writers, and artists for well over four hundred years. To illuminate why and how the Islamicate world became the locus for such fantasies and desires, Boone deploys a supple mode of ... Weiterlesen

Emanuel Levy: Gay Directors, Gay Films?

Pedro Almodovar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters. USA 2015, 392 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 25.95
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Columbia University Press
Through intimate encounters with the life and work of five contemporary gay male directors (Pedro Almodovar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters), this book develops a framework for interpreting what it means to make a gay film or adopt a gay point of view. For most of the 20th century, gay characters and gay themes were both ... Weiterlesen

Daniel Boyarin / Daniel Itzkovitz (eds.): Queer Theory and the Jewish Question

USA 2003, 464 pp., brochure, € 69.95
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Columbia University Press
The essays in this volume boldly map the historically resonant intersections between Jewishness and queerness, between homophobia and anti-Semitism, and between queer theory and theorizations of Jewishness. With important essays by such well-known figures in queer and gender studies as Judith Butler, Daniel Boyarin, Marjorie Garber, Michael Moon, and Eve Sedgwick, this book is not so much interested in revealing ... Weiterlesen

Lee Walzer: Between Sodom and Eden

A Gay Journey Through Today's Changing Israel. USA 2000, 368 pp., brochure, € 36.99
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Columbia University Press
Astonishingly, Israeli lesbians and gays have been able to achieve many political goals that still elude America's gay community. Israel's Supreme Court has mandated same-sex spousal benefits; the military, which never barred gays to begin with, has removed its last official restrictions; Israel's parliament boasts a Subcommittee for the Prevention of Sexual Orientation Discrimination; and school curricula are gay-friendly--all of ... Weiterlesen

William L. Leap: Public Sex - Gay Space

USA 1998, 308 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Columbia University Press
Male homosexual activity in public and semipublic locations is a central but seldom explored dimension of gay culture around the world. The majority of existing research emphasizes the impersonality of such erotic interaction and underscores the element of danger involved. While never denying the danger of anonymous public sex in the age of AIDS, the contributors to »Public Sex/Gay Space« ... Weiterlesen

J. W. Wright / Everett K. Rowson: Homoeroticism in Classical Arabic Literature

USA 1998, 239 pp., brochure, € 69.95
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Columbia University Press
There is a wealth of homoerotic allusion found in classical Arabic literature from pre-Islamic poems to the »Thousand and One Nights«. Images and narratives often glorify the male body as beautiful, youthful, or erotic. While such masculine allusion and homoerotic imagery have been recognized as significant elements of classical Arabic literature, they have either been misunderstood or lacked sustained analysis. ... Weiterlesen