Judith Butler: Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

USA 2015, 256 pp., brochure, € 34.95
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Harvard University Press
Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analyzing what they signify and how. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, Butler extends her theory of performativity to argue that precarity the destruction of the conditions of livability has been a galvanizing force and theme in today's highly visible protests. Butler broadens the ... Weiterlesen

David M. Halperin: How to Be Gay

USA 2014, 549 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Harvard University Press
If you assert that male homosexuality is a cultural practice, expressive of a unique subjectivity and a distinctive relation to mainstream society, people will immediately protest. Such an idea is just a stereotype - ridiculously simplistic, politically irresponsible, and morally suspect. The world acknowledges gay male culture as a fact but denies it as a truth. The author - pioneer ... Weiterlesen

Mark Cornwall: The Devil's Wall

The Nationalist Youth Mission of Heinz Rutha. USA/UK 2012, 352 pp., hardbound, € 59.95
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In interwar Czechoslovakia, Sudeten German nationalists conceived a radical mission to try to restore German influence across the region. Heinz Rutha - earnest, seductive, and deeply conflicted by his homosexual longings - was the pioneer of a youth movement that emphasized male bonding in its quest to reassert German dominance over Czech space. Czechoslovak authorities misinterpreted Rutha's mission as a ... Weiterlesen

Nicholas Frankel (ed.): Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray

An Annotated, Uncensored Edition. USA 2011, 295 pp. illustrated, hardbound, € 39.95
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Harvard University Press
»The Picture of Dorian Gray« altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had a different look. Yet the »Dorian Gray« that Victorians never knew was even more daring than the novel the British press condemned as »vulgar«, »unclean«, »poisonous«, »discreditable«, and »a sham«. Now, more ... Weiterlesen

Antonio Beccadelli: The Hermaphrodite

Transl. by Holt Parker. USA 2010, lat./engl. Text, 299pp., hardbound, € 32.95
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Antonio Beccadelli, known as Panormita from his native town of Palermo, was appointed court poet to Duke Filippo Maria Visconti, crowned poet laureate by Emperor Sigismund, and ended his days as panegyrist to King Alfonso V of Aragon and Naples, where he founded the first of the Renaissance Academies. »The Hermaphrodite«, his first work, dedicated to Cosimo de' Medici, won ... Weiterlesen

Lisa M. Diamond: Sexual Fluidity

Understanding Women's Love and Desire. USA 2009, 333pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Harvard University Press
Many women experience a fluid sexual desire that is responsive to a person rather then a specific gender, argues the author in this controversial study. She's best when detailing how scientific studies of sexual desire and behavior have focused on the experience of men, for whom the heterosexual/homosexual divide seems mostly fixed. Traditional labels for sexual desire are inadequate. For ... Weiterlesen

Heather Love: Feeling Backward

Loss and the Politics of Queer History. USA/UK 2009, 196 pp., brochure, € 45.95
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Harvard University Press
Now that, in the latest twist of tolerance, gays are required to flaunt their well-adjustedness, this book may feel backward indeed as it cotemplates the pain, anger, isolation, and sheer crankiness prominent in literary figures of our queer past. It weighs the costs of the contemporary move to the mainstream in lesbian and gay culture. While the widening tolerance for ... Weiterlesen

Alice Domurat Dreger: Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex

USA 2000, 284 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Punctuated with remarkable case studies, this book explores extraordinary encounters between hermaphrodites - people born with »ambiguous« sexual anatomy - and the medical and scientific professionals who grappled with them. Alice Dreger focuses on events in France and Britain in the late 19th century, a moment of great tension for questions of sex roles. While feminists, homosexuals, and anthropological explorers ... Weiterlesen