A beautifully illustrated compendium of LGBTIQ+ life, »A Queer Scrapbook« offers a rich archive of histories from across Britain and Ireland. Brimming with interviews, newspaper clippings, photographs, and flyers, it traces urban, rural, and regional queer experiences from 1945 to the present. Commentaries and short essays introduce a changing queer landscape, organised around four themes: home and family, socialising and ... Weiterlesen

Koen Slootmaeckers: Coming in

Sexual Politics and EU Accession in Serbia. UK 2025, 248 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Manchester University Press

LGBT rights have become increasingly salient within the EU enlargement process as a litmus test for Europeanness. But the promotion of these norms has provided a basis for political contestation. This book interrogates the normative dimensions of the EU enlargement process, with special reference to LGBT politics. Reconceptualising Europeanisation, it argues that EU enlargement is a process of negotiated transformation ... Weiterlesen

Sacha Coward: Queer as Folklore

The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters. UK 2025, 352 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Manchester University Press

Join any Pride march and you will see a glorious display of papier-mâché unicorn heads, drag queens in mermaid tails and more fairy wings than you can shake a trident at. These are not just they are queer symbols with historic roots. To truly understand who queer people are today, we must confront the twisted tales of the past. »Queer ... Weiterlesen

Eli Erlick: Before Gender - Lost Stories from TRANS History 1850 - 1950

UK 2025, 272 pp., hardbound, € 39.95
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Manchester University Press

Discover the trailblazing lives of thirty trans people who will radically change everything you've been told about transgender history. Highlighting influential individuals from 1850 to 1950 who are all but unknown today, Eli Erlick shares thirty remarkable stories from romance to rebellion and mystery to murder. These narratives chronicle the grit, joy and survival of trans people long before gender ... Weiterlesen

Patrick Clarke: Bedsit Land

The Strange Worlds of Soft Cell. UK 2024, 248 pp., brochure, € 19.95
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Manchester University Press

Soft Cell are not your average pop band. Marc Almond and Dave Ball may be best known for the string of hits they released in 1981, but the powerful first phase of their collaboration embraced a staggering array of sounds, influences and innovations that would change the face of music to come. In »Bedsit land«, Patrick Clarke plunges into the ... Weiterlesen

Alexandra Parsons: Luminous Presence

Derek Jarman's Life-Writing. UK 2023, 280 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Manchester University Press

Luminous Derek Jarman's life-writing is the first book to analyse the prolific writing of queer icon Derek Jarman. Although he is well known for his avant-garde filmmaking, his garden, and his AIDS activism, he is also the author of over a dozen books, many of which are autobiographical. Much of Jarman's exploration of post-war queer identity and imaginative response to ... Weiterlesen

Rustam Alexander: Red Closet

The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR. UK 2023, 288 pp., hardbound, € 27.95
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Manchester University Press

In 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Rustam Alexander recounts the compelling stories of people whose lives were directly affected by those laws, including a naive Scottish journalist based in Moscow who dared to write to Stalin in an attempt to save his lover from prosecution, and ... Weiterlesen

John-Pierre Joyce: Odd Men out

Male Homosexuality in Britain from Wolfenden to Gay Liberation. UK 2022, 368 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 29.99
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Manchester University Press

»Odd Men out« examines the transformation of homosexual men from odd to normal during the tumultuous decades of the 1950s and 1960s. Using new and original research, John-Pierre Joyce explores contemporary attitudes to gay men and the development of a gay identity. He considers the extent and limits of homosexual repression and liberation, and analyses the dilemmas posed by the ... Weiterlesen

Ben Nichols: Same Old

Queer Theory, Literature and the Politics of Sameness. UK 2020, 222 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Manchester University Press

»Same Old« offers a rethinking of positions that have defined queer theory since its inception in the early 1990s. Steeped in philosophical and political commitments to »difference«, queer theoretical frameworks have tended to assume that ideas related to »sameness« only thwart and stymie queer forms of life. But this book takes a number of these ideas as its focus - ... Weiterlesen

Chris Brickell: Queer Objects

UK 2019, 400 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Manchester University Press

Queer lives give rise to a vast array of the things we fill our houses with, the gifts we share with our friends, the commodities we consume at work and at play, the clothes and accessories we wear, and the analogue and digital technologies we use to communicate with one another. But what makes an object queer? The sixty-three chapters ... Weiterlesen

Alberto Fernández Carbajal: Queer Muslim Diasporas in Contemporary Literature and Film

UK 2019, 276 pp., brochure, € 29.95
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Manchester University Press

This book explores the representation of queer migrant Muslims in international literature and film from the 1980s to the present day. Bringing together a variety of contemporary writers and filmmakers of Muslim heritage engaged in vindicating same-sex desire, the book approaches queer Muslims in the diaspora as figures forced to negotiate their identities according to the expectations of the West ... Weiterlesen

William Hughes / Andrew Smith (eds.): Queering the Gothic

UK 2009, 195 pp., brochure, € 49.95
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Manchester University Press

»Queering the Gothic« is the first multi-authored book concerned with the developing interface between Gothic criticism and queer theory. Considering a range of Gothic texts produced between the 18th century and the present, the contributors explore the relationship between reading Gothically and reading Queerly, making this collection both an important reassessment of the Gothic tradition and a significant contribution to ... Weiterlesen