Micah Rajunov / Scott Duane (eds.): Nonbinary

Memoirs of Gender and Identity. USA 2019, 250 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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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

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Between Men

English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire. USA 2016 (Reprint), 244 pp., brochure, € 26.99
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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